💼 Full-Time Position

Senior data engineer (aws / azure / gcp (bigquery) - johannesburg - r1mil per annum

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E-Merge
📍 johannesburg, gauteng, South-Africa
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Location
johannesburg, South-Africa
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Posted
June 26, 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

Senior Data Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and scale the data infrastructure that underpins the entire APEX platform. Zenith – our data collection and aggregation layer – is the foundation everything else runs on. You will architect ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest structured and unstructured data from diverse sources across agriculture, mining, retail, and banking, transforming it into the intelligence layer that powers Quantum's AI analytics, Prism's visualisations, and Vector's verification processes. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain the Zenith data aggregation layer , the core infrastructure of the APEX platform Develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest data from APIs, databases, file systems, web scraping sources, and Io T devices Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting to ensure accuracy, reliability, and consistency Optimise data storage, partitioning, and query performance for analytical and operational workloads Collabora...