# Data Engineer (Expert)

Reference: JHB001567-KF-2 ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Hands-on experience with Kafka and event streaming platforms for real-time data movement. Proven experience with API integration patterns, webhooks and event/webhook ingestion. Strong proficiency in Python for data engineering, ingestion pipelines and automation. Solid competence with enterprise databases and query languages, with practical experience with database performance tuning and query optimisation for OLTP/operational workloads. Experience in data modelling to design schemas and standardized data representations. Experience with schema registries and contract-first designs (Avro, Protobuf) to manage producer/consumer compatibility. Strong understanding and practice of data quality techniques and tooling to ensure trusted data. Knowledge of metadata management and cataloguing to support discoverability and lineage. Familiarity with ETL/ELT patterns and best practices for performant, reliable data pipelines. Ability to normalise and correlate data across multiple sources (CMDB, identity, security tooling). Design and operate idempotent pipelines with retry, replay and compensation mechanisms. ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS: Expe

- **Id**: 3805616
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/imizizi-data-engineer-expert>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pretoria, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T13:01:05Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T13:01:05Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4973
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4496229
- **Name**: Imizizi
- **Domain**: imizizi.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/imizizi>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Hadoop** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T13:02:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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