Head: Data Engineering

Absa Bank Limited

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Enterprise data platforms
Data warehousing
Batch and streaming data pipelines
** Absa Bank Limited is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead the development of enterprise data platforms, ensuring high-quality data availability for analytics and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data engineering, team leadership, and influencing executive decisions, along with a strong educational background in relevant fields. **

Job Summary

  • Accountable for shaping and advising on the IT functional operating model to introduce and scale enterprise data platforms—including the shared enterprise data warehouse, lakehouse, ingestion and transformation frameworks, and governed data products.
  • Leads engineering teams while defining platform patterns, standards, and architectures that make trusted, high-quality data available faster, more reliably, and more cost effectively.
  • Ensures cross-discipline integration (data, engineering, cloud, platforms, architecture, security) and alignment to enterprise strategy.

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** Absa Bank Limited is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead the development of enterprise data platforms, ensuring high-quality data availability for analytics and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data engineering, team leadership, and influencing executive decisions, along with a strong educational background in relevant fields. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • enterprise data platforms
  • data warehousing
  • batch and streaming data pipelines
  • cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • DataOps and observability
  • governed data sharing

Nice-to-have

  • customer first mindset
  • strategic influence
  • ownership and judgement
  • inclusive leadership
  • learning agility

Key Requirements

  • 12-15+ years in data engineering
  • 5+ years leading engineering teams
  • NQF Level 8 qualification/Postgraduate degree
  • Experience in regulated environments

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