Data Integration Engineer (Data Platform + Architecture)

Purpose of the Role

The Data Integration Engineer (Data Platform + Architecture) is the architect and builder of Dis-Chem Life’s data foundation, creating the infrastructure that turns raw information into a strategic asset. This role goes far beyond moving data from A to B, it is about designing high-performance, future-proof systems that make data accurate, accessible, and truly powerful.

By developing best-in-class data pipelines, warehouse systems, architecture, and governance frameworks the Engineer enables the entire organisation, from the actuarial, data science and analytics teams to general operations, to work with clean, structured, and reliable datasets at scale while protecting our customers’ data privacy as stipulated in the POPI Act.

Solving hard engineering problems, building resilient ingestion frameworks, handling messy and complex source systems, optimising cloud architecture for cost and performance, and ensuring that every d...