Senior Data Engineer

Datafin IT Recruitment
📍 Cape Town, Cape Town, South-Africa 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted February 21, 2026

Job Description

ENVIRONMENT:

A bold Marketing Consultancy for challengers is on the hunt for a Senior Data Engineer to join its Cape Town-based Media & Data team. This is not your typical data role — it’s for someone who thrives on building systems that power breakthrough marketing strategies designed to disrupt the norm, outsmart competitors, and deliver outsized results. You’ll take charge of architecting, building, and maintaining robust data infrastructure that fuels media planning, activation, and performance measurement. Working with diverse datasets — from first-party and retail media to CRM, digital analytics, syndicated, and financial data — you’ll ensure data is clean, connected, and activation-ready across every channel. This is a hands-on and strategic position, where you’ll design scalable pipelines, champion data governance, and collaborate closely with data planners, strategists, and media buyers to turn data into intelligent action.

DUTIES:

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Job Details

  • Location Cape Town, Cape Town
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category Other-General
  • Posted Date February 21, 2026
  • Application Deadline April 02, 2026