Data Engineer

Ten Lifestyle Group

Data Engineer building robust data infrastructure for analytics and decision-making at Ten. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize data processes.

Posted 7/14/2026full-timeCape Town • 🇿🇦 South AfricaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining data pipelines, ensuring data quality, and developing scalable data infrastructure in cloud environments. Proficient in API development and data integration, with strong analytical skills to support decision-making and reporting.

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Data Pipeline DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentSQL ProficiencyCloud Infrastructure DesignData Quality Assurance

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Hard Skills

JavaPythonScalaSQLSparkPandasData ModelingData TransformationData CleansingBatch Processing

Soft Skills

Strong Communication Skills

Tools & Technologies

AWSCI/CDInfrastructure-as-CodeMonitoringAutomation

Industry Keywords

Data GovernanceData AccessibilityData AnalyticsData IntegrationData Engineering

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudJavaPandasPythonScalaSparkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Establish and maintain data quality checks, validation processes, and governance standards.
Ensure consistent documentation across data sources, pipelines, and models.
Build scalable pipelines that ingest, normalise, and transform data from multiple internal systems into a unified, central data store.
Develop clean, well-structured data models ready for analysis and reporting.
Build APIs and data delivery mechanisms that provide fast, reliable access to analytics, insights, and reports.
Partner with Data Analysts to ensure data is easily consumable for reporting and decision-making.
Develop ingestion APIs and solutions for importing external or client data into databases.
Own and maintain Data Feeds, ensuring timely fixes and high reliability.
Improve data accessibility, query performance, and database efficiency.
Work closely with Engineering to align on best practices and architectural improvements.
Model and analyse the impact of potential product or engineering roadmap items to support prioritisation and decision-making.
Design and operate modern, scalable data infrastructure in AWS (or an equivalent cloud platform).
Apply software engineering and DevOps best practices including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and automation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software or computer engineering or a related field.
Minimum 5 years’ experience building data pipelines using Java, Python, or Scala – coding experience is essential
Familiarity with frameworks like Spark or Pandas
Ability to handle batch and, ideally, stream data processing
Ability to build APIs and data delivery solutions, with a focus on data cleansing and integration.
Extensive hands-on experience with SQL for building transformations, validating data, and optimising analytical workloads.
Fluent in English
Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for business stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A competitive salary depending on experience.
Hybrid working. You can combine working from home and working from the office.
Paid time away from work. Our employees enjoy a competitive paid time off package, including a paid day each year to volunteer time for a good cause that is important to them.
Paid Sabbaticals. One (1) month paid Sabbatical after every 5 years of Service, without tapping into annual leave.
Extra Rewards. Lucrative Ten Loyalty Rewards program which includes a bonus and gift to say thank you for being part of Ten.
Remote Working Holidays - possibilities to Travel and Work anywhere in the world!
Employee Discounts. Access to lots of great travel and entertainment discounts as our clients’ members would!
Be part of our global, dynamic, and inclusive Team, with diversity at its core.
Genuine career opportunities within a dynamic and international company.