Senior Data Engineer Consultant – Data Quality and Modern Cloud Platform

Function: Data & Digital Consulting Location: South Africa, hybrid / client-site as required Reports to: Data Engineering or Consulting Practice Lead About Keyrus Keyrus is an internationally recognised specialist in Data and Digital, and a trusted partner to organisations across industries. We deliver practical business solutions using modern, scalable technologies, helping clients improve performance through data-enabled transformation. We're passionate about innovation, teamwork and collective success, driven by exceptional people who combine technical depth with sound consulting judgement.

The Role The Senior Data Engineer Consultant designs, builds and operationalises secure, scalable, governed data platforms for Keyrus clients. You'll turn business and data requirements into reliable ingestion, transformation, quality, storage and serving solutions that power reporting, analytics, migration and responsible AI use cases. You'll work closely with data architects, business analysts, governance teams and client stakeholders, providing technical leadership, shaping solution architecture, supporting pre-sales and mentoring other engineers.

Key outcomes Secure, scalable, reliable and cost-conscious cloud data platforms and pipelines. Trusted, curated, reporting-ready data products with clear ownership and measurable quality. Repeatable profiling, cleansing, remediation, reconciliation and monitoring capabilities.

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