Specialist Data Engineer at Absa Bank Limited

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Job Details

Status: Active
Category: Engineering
Posted: Mar 30, 2026
Expires: Jun 28, 2026
Work style: Hybrid

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About the Role

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

This role provides an exciting opportunity within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. Working closely with business stakeholders and technology leaders, you will play a key role in the creation and implementation of Big Data applications and products across Personal and Private Banking.

Job Description

Education and Experience

BSc Honours, BCom Honours, BEng, BBusSc in Computer Science, Information Systems or any Information Technology qualification that is at NQF level 8 or higher
3 or more years of experience as a Data Engineer

Critical Skills

Understanding of and experience of using Big Data technologies (Hadoop) is essential
Experience with designing and developing Scala/ Apache Spark data applications
Understanding of Linux and Bash scripting
Understanding of Git and GitHub Actions
Experience in CA Wade or any other orchestration tool
Great SQL skills
Have the ability to work in either an Agile or project methodology to deliver tasks
Datawarehouse experience is beneficial but not a must
Cloud skills (AWS preferable) and Databricks are beneficial but not a must

Data Engineering

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
Understand the technical landscape and bank wide architecture to effectively design & deliver data solutions (architecture, pipeline etc.)
Create & Maintain CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines within Git Hub Actions and deploy to production)
Automate data applications using orchestration tools
Debug and improve existing source code
Support the continuous optimisation, improvement & automation of data pipelines

People

Coach & mentor other data engineers
Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within the team

Risk & Governance

Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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