# Senior Data Engineer

About Lula Lula is on a mission to simplify business funding for South African SMEs. We build fast, digital-first fintech tools that make cash flow management seamless so business owners can focus on doing what they love. We’re a fast-growing, tech-driven team that values curiosity, collaboration, and high impact over red tape. Speaking of love, we’re looking for Lulas who love to make a difference to join our team and change the game. Culture Code We Embrace Curiosity - We continuously seek better ways to deliver value with a solutions-over-problems mindset. We win as One - We collaborate, build strong relationships and value diverse perspectives We’re Driven by Purpose - We are passionate and committed to delivering the best products and services for SMEs We Execute with Ambition - We set ambitious goals, embrace challenges, and deliver with focus and determination. ROLE PURPOSE As a Senior Data Engineer at Lula, you will work at the heart of our data platform, building and running the pipelines and data systems the business relies on. You will work with our data scientists, analytics engineers, machine learning engineers and analysts to deliver reliable data that supports decisi

- **Id**: 3875125
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lula-senior-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T13:53:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T05:28:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5701
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Business & SME Lending, Digital Banks & Neobanks

## Company

- **Id**: 57348
- **Name**: Lula
- **Domain**: lula.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lula>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Breezy

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure Cosmos DB** — Optional: no
- **Azure Data Factory** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **ChatGPT** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Flyway** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Liquibase** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **South Africa** — Iso: ZA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T15:59:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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