Data engineering lead

Cloudandthings.io • Remote, Remote, South-Africa • Posted June 04, 2026

Location Remote, Remote
Job Type Full-time
Category Other-General
Posted June 04, 2026
Overview As a Data Engineering Lead, you will own the technical direction and delivery of modern, cloud-native data platforms across AWS and Azure, leveraging AWS native services, Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. You will lead a team of data engineers, drive architectural decisions, and serve as the primary technical point of contact on client engagements. You will set the standard for engineering excellence across the full data lifecycle, ingestion, transformation, modelling, and serving, enabling real-time analytics, reporting, and AI use cases at scale. Key Responsibilities Leadership and Client Engagement Lead and manage a team of data engineers, providing mentorship, technical guidance, and career development support. Own client relationships from a technical perspective, scoping engagements, setting expectations, and ensuring delivery excellence. Translate business requirements into data platform strategies, aligning technical solutions to measurable outcomes. Drive estimation, p...

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