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Data Engineer – Data Platform Team

Outsidecapital
Full-time
On-site
Cape Town, South Africa

Job Description

We are partnering with a leading European property services group that is on a mission to care for people by improving their living and working surroundings. With a rapidly scaling presence across eight countries (including the Nordics, Germany, and the UK) and a workforce of nearly 15,000 professionals, they are combining entrepreneurial spirit with responsible growth. They are currently investing heavily in building a greenfield, modern data platform to enable advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making across the entire organization.

Performance Objectives for Year One

  • Architect and Deploy Scalable ETL Pipelines: Within the first 6 months, design and build robust data ingestion pipelines to consolidate data from diverse internal and external sources across multiple European regions into the new cloud platform.
  • Implement Modern Transformation Workflows: Lead the adoption of dbt (Data Build Tool) to standardize transformation logic, ensuring all data models are documented, version-controlled, and optimized for analytics consumption.
  • Drive the Adoption of Microsoft Fabric: Partner with architects to implement Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric solutions, ensuring the platform is future-proof, scalable, and secure.
  • Establish Data Ops Excellence: By the end of year one, implement CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices for data workflows, reducing deployment errors and automating testing processes.
  • Enable Self-Service Analytics: Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into clean, modeled datasets that empower analytics teams to generate reliable reports without manual intervention.