Senior Data Engineer

Flash

2026/09/17 Western Cape

Job Reference Number: F346

Department: Data Intelligence

Business Unit: Industry: Fintech

Job Type: Permanent

Positions Available: 1

Salary: Market Related

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for creating robust data pipelines from millions of transactions a day, integrating data from multiple sources, ensuring data quality and governance, and optimizing data platforms for performance and scalability.

Job Description What the Herd is about Flash is a well-established brand and part of Pepkor, with a global strategy and a clear purpose: making people’s lives easier.

We use frontier technology to create opportunities and build products and services that make a real difference in people’s everyday lives.

Our three values are the heartbeat of our business:

• We are all in
• We have each other’s backs
• We are brave

They shape how we work, how we show up for one another and the kind of culture we’re building. A place where people can do meaningful work, feel supported to do their best and have the freedom to make an impact.

If you’re excited by meaningful problems, smart people and building brands and products that improve everyday lives, we’d love to meet you.

Why this role matters As our Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for creating robust data pipelines from millions of transactions a day, integrating data from multiple sources, ensuring data quality and governance, and optimising data platforms for performance and scalability.

This role plays a key part in enabling data-driven decisions by delivering trusted, accessible, and well-structured data to business stakeholders, analysts, and engineering teams

What You’ll Own

• Own the migration of assigned workstreams from SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric, from assessment through cutover and decommissioning.
• Contribute to data architecture and platform design decisions for the target Fabric estate.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines.
• Develop and maintain data models for analytics and reporting.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and reliability across platforms.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data platform performance issues.
• Implement data governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Assess and inventory the existing SQL Server estate — databases, SSIS packages, stored procedures, SQL Agent jobs, downstream report dependencies — and sequence the migration by risk and business value.
• Rebuild SSIS packages as Fabric-native pipelines, notebooks, or Dataflows Gen2.
• Assist in implementing Master Data Management across the estate.
• Refactor T-SQL and stored procedures for Fabric Warehouse compatibility, resolving unsupported constructs.
• Run parallel validation and reconciliation between legacy and Fabric outputs, and plan zero-downtime cutovers.
• Maintain and support the legacy SQL Server platform through the transition period, then decommission migrated components.
• Manage Fabric capacity consumption and platform cost.

Job Requirements

Experience We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or Engineering.
• 5–8 years in data engineering, including hands-on SQL Server (T-SQL, SSIS, SQL Agent) in production.
• Demonstrable experience delivering a cloud data platform migration or greenfield Lakehouse/warehouse build.
• Microsoft fabric experience highly advantageous or directly transferable experience on Azure Synapse or Databricks.

Bonus points if you have…

• Preferred: DP-700 (Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate)

You’ll thrive in the Herd if you have…

• Analytical Thinking: Systematically breaks down complex data and commercial structures to identify trends, risks, and opportunities that inform strategic decisions.
• Stakeholder Influence: Communicates financial insights clearly to non-finance stakeholders, including senior leadership and external partners, to drive alignment and action.
• Attention to Detail: Maintains accuracy and rigour across financial models, dashboards, and reporting, ensuring data integrity underpins all decision-making.
• Strategic Orientation: Connects day-to-day financial analysis to broader divisional and company strategy, proactively identifying growth levers and efficiency gains.
• Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment where product portfolios, partner relationships, and commercial structures change frequently.
• Problem Solving: Approaches challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset, balancing speed and thoroughness to deliver actionable outcomes under pressure.

Perks that make your life easier

• Catered lunch four days a week for office-based team members.
• An open coffee bar and snacks.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Corporate Social Investment events and opportunities to give back.
• Free on-site parking.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Social events throughout the year.
• Group risk benefits.
• Flash Club, our employee engagement programme where you can earn up to five additional leave days by completing all categories within a cycle.

Ready to join the Herd? If this sounds like the kind of challenge you’ve been looking for, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and give it HORNS!