# Data Engineer (12-Month Contract)

Introduction An opportunity is available for an experienced Data Engineer to join a dynamic data engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for combining software, systems and data to extract meaningful insights from raw data, ensuring data availability, integrity and optimal performance. The role involves working closely with data scientists, analysts and other stakeholders to design, develop and maintain data integration pipelines, data layers and data warehouse solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong ETL and data warehouse experience, sound SQL and programming skills, and exposure to cloud platforms. Duties & Responsibilities Client and Requirement Analysis Understand and analyse client requirements and business needs. Identify, analyse, visualise and interpret supporting data to propose effective solutions. Design and Development Design and develop data layers to support Big Data analytics. Architect data integration pipelines and ensure successful extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of data from various sources. Analyse specifications and data to design data warehouse and product layers. Develop, test and maintain data pipeli

- **Id**: 4006497
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/swan-it-recruitment-data-engineer-12-month-contract>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:44Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:44Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3521
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4496126
- **Name**: Swan iT Recruitment
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/swan-it-recruitment>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Dimensional Modeling** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T07:15:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.542
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: seen:3, agency, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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