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In addition, Data Engineers enhance the data infrastructure of the bank to enable advanced analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence by providing clean, usable data to stakeholders. They also create data pipelines, Ingestion, provisioning, streaming, self service, API and solutions around big data that support the Bank's strategy to become a data driven organisation.\nJob Responsibilities\nResponsible for the maintenance, improvement, cleaning, and manipulation of data in the bank's operational and analytics databases.\nData Infrastructure: Build and manage scalable, optimised, supported, tested, secure, and reliable data infrastucture eg using Infrastructure and Databases (DB2, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, HBase, NoSQL, etc), Data Lakes Storage (Azure Data Lake Gen 2), Cloud-based solutions (SAS , Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, HDInsight), Data Platforms (SAS, Ab Initio, Denodo, Netezza, Azure Cloud). Ensure data security and privacy in collaboration with Information Security, CISO and Data Governance\nData Pipeline Build (Ingestion, Provisioning, Streaming and API): Build and maintain data pipelines to:\n create data pipelines for data integration (Data Ingestion, Data Provisioning and Data Streaming) utilising both On Premise tool sets and Cloud Data Engineering tool sets\nefficiently extract data (Data Acquisition) from Golden Sources, Trusted sources and Writebacks with data integration from multiple sources, formats and structures\nload the Nedbank Data Warehouse (Data Reservoir, Atomic Data Warehouse, Enterprise Data Mart) \nprovide data to the respective Lines of Business Marts, Regulatory Marts and Compliance Marts through self service data virtualisation\nprovide data to applications or Nedbank Data consumers\ntransform data to a common data model for reporting and data analysis, and to provide data in a consistent, useable format to Nedbank data stakeholders\nhandle big data technologies (Hadoop), streaming (KAFKA) and data Replication (IBM Inphosphere Data Replication)\ndrive utilisation of data integration tools ( Ab Initio) and Cloud data integration tools (Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Bricks)\nData Modelling and Schema Build: In collaboration with Data Modellers, create data models and database schemas on the Data Reservoir, Data Lake, Atomic Data Warehouse and Enterprise Data Marts.\nNedbank Data Warehouse Automation: Automate, monitor and improve the performance of data pipelines.\nCollaboration: Collaborate with Data Analysts, Software Engineers, Data Modelers, Data Scientistsm Scrum Masers and Data Warehouse teams as part of a squad to contribute to the data architecture detail designs and take ownership of Epics end-to-end and ensure that data solutions deliver business value.\nData Quality and Data Governance: Ensure that reasonable data quality checks are implemented in the data pipelines to maintain a high level of data accuracy, consistency and security.\nPerformance and Optimisation: Ensure the performance of the Nedbank data warehouse, integration patterns, batch and real time jobs, streaming and API's.\nAPI Development: Build API's that enable the Data Driven Organisation, ensuring that the data warehouse is optimised for API's by collaborating with Software Engineers.\nEssential Qualifications - NQF Level\nMatric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate\nAdvanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees\nPreferred Qualification\nField of Study:Bcom, BSc, BEng\nPreferred Certifications\nCloud (Azure, AWS), DEVOPS or Data engineering certification. Any Data Science certification will be an added advantage, Coursera, Udemy, SAS Data Scientist certification, Microsoft Data Scientist.\nMinimum Experience Level\nTotal number of years of experience:3 - 6 years\nExperienced at working independently within a squad and has the demonstrated knowledge and skills to deliver data outcomes without supervision. \nExperience designing, building, and maintaining data warehouses and data lakes.\nExperience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Hive.\nExperience with programming languages such as Python, Java, and SQL.\nExperience with relational databases and NoSQL databases.\nExperience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. Experience with data visualization tools. Result-driven, analytical creative thinker, with demonstrated ability for innovative problem solving. \nTechnical / Professional Knowledge\nCloud Data Engineering (Azure , AWS, Google)\nData Warehousing\nDatabases (PostgreSQL, MS SQL, IBM DB2, HBase, MongoDB)\nProgramming (Python, Java, SQL)\nData Analysis and Data Modelling\nData Pipelines and ETL tools (Ab Initio, ADB, ADF, SAS ETL)\nAgile Delivery\nProblem solving skills\nBehavioural Competencies\nDecision Making\nInfluencing\nCommunication\nInnovation\nBuilding Partnerships\nTechnical/Professional Knowledge and Skills\nContinuous Learning\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566","description_format":"text","description_chars":5434,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Mortgage Lending & Brokers"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T02:24:43Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-03T15:34:35Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-10-03T16:57:39Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-03T17:11:25Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-10-06T21:49:51Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":19,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.537,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":27,"expected_fill_days":8,"reasons":["conf:6","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nedbank-data-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nedbank-data-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T23:11:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1448,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1868711},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1868711"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnedbank-data-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnedbank-data-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnedbank-data-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nedbank-data-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnedbank-data-engineer"}]}