Head - Data Engineer

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Head - Data Engineer at The City of Cape Town. It involves leading data engineering efforts and managing a team to deliver scalable and reliable data platforms and products for the City. **What you will do** * Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable, reliable, cost-effective data platforms for ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving across cloud and on-premise environments. * Drive the development, deployment, and monitoring of data products and APIs designed to answer the City's most important questions. * Establish governance, standards, and best practices for the City's data analytics and AI community, including the City Data Product Catalogue. * Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers, DevOps, and front-end specialists. * Own people, financial, project, risk, and change management for the section. * Engage senior stakeholders, up to City Manager, Executive Management, and Mayoral Committee level, to translate business needs into data solutions. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * A relevant tertiary qualification honours or 4-year degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field * At least 8 years’ relevant experience * Solid hands-on experience working with open-source technologies and software across the data engineering lifecycle * Deep technical grounding in modern data engineering infrastructure-as-code, containerisation, observability, APIs paired with proven leadership * Strong communication skills and the ability to tailor your message to technical, operational, and executive audiences **Who should apply** Candidates should possess an honours or 4-year degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, along with a minimum of 8 years' relevant experience. The ideal applicant will have solid hands-on experience with open-source data engineering technologies and a deep technical grounding in modern data engineering practices, including infrastructure-as-code, containerisation, observability, and APIs. Proven leadership and strong communication skills adaptable to various audiences are also essential. **Deadline** 19.10.2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/head-data-engineer-city-of-cape-town Source: myjobmag

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