💼 Full-Time Position

Head: Data Engineering

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Absa Group
📍 johannesburg, gauteng, South-Africa
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Location
johannesburg, South-Africa
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Posted
June 24, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Accountable for shaping and advising on the IT functional operating model to introduce and scale enterprise data platforms—including the shared enterprise data warehouse, lakehouse, ingestion and transformation frameworks, and governed data products.

Leads engineering teams while defining platform patterns, standards, and architectures that make trusted, high-quality data available faster, more reliably, and more cost effectively.

Ensures cross-discipline integration (data, engineering, cloud, platforms, architecture, security) and alignment to enterprise strategy. Influences executive decisi...