# Senior AWS Data Engineer (Contract)

SUMMARY: - POSITION INFO: PBT Group is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer with strong AWS and Databricks expertise to join a data-focused team. The successful candidate will design, build and optimise scalable data pipelines and platforms that support analytics, reporting and advanced data use cases. Short-term insurance domain experience is a strong advantage. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines using AWS and Databricks Build and optimise ETL\/ELT processes for structured and unstructured data Implement and manage data lakehouse architectures (including Medallion or similar layered approaches) Ensure data quality, reliability, performance and governance across pipelines Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, architects and business stakeholders Contribute to technical design, documentation and best practices Support production deployments, monitoring and troubleshooting of data solutions Mentor junior engineers and contribute to continuous improvement of the data platform Required Skills & Experience Solid experience as a Senior Data Engineer Strong hands-on experience with AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, Redshift, IAM

- **Id**: 4067704
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pbt-group-senior-aws-data-engineer-contract>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1911
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Analytics & BI Consulting, Data Engineering & Migration Services

## Company

- **Id**: 177436
- **Name**: PBT Group
- **Domain**: pbtgroup.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pbt-group>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 71
- **Open postings**: 21
- **Ghost share**: 0.381
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.762
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Redshift** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T12:05:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 99
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: seen:1, urgency, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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