Senior Data Engineer
LabourNet|Posted 15 days ago
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Join LabourNet as a Senior Data Engineer and play a foundational role in building our enterprise data platform from the ground up. You'll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining reliable, scalable, and governed data pipelines that power our Golden Employee Record, cross-domain analytics, and future advisory products. This is a platform- and capability-building role where you'll set engineering standards and enable all downstream analytics, BI, and data science work across the organization. We're at an exciting transition point, moving from fragmented, service-line-specific systems to a unified, governed data platform that supports multi-tenant analytics, cross-domain insights, predictive use cases, and regulatory requirements. In this role, you'll design and implement robust ingestion pipelines using Medallion architecture (Bronze → Silver → Gold), build analytics-ready data models in partnership with our BI teams, and implement comprehensive data quality and observability patterns. You'll translate architectural vision into operational reality, establishing engineering standards for naming conventions, partitioning strategies, error handling, and monitoring that will shape our platform for years to come. You'll work in a collaborative, squad-based environment alongside Product Owners, Delivery Leads, and Analysts, embedding data engineering work naturally into delivery cycles while balancing platform development with incremental business value. As a technical leader, you'll mentor junior engineers, promote best practices, and help establish a strong engineering culture focused on quality and sustainability. We're looking for someone with strong experience in modern cloud data platforms, lakehouse architectures, advanced SQL skills, and the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. If you have a pragmatic mindset that balances ideal architecture with delivery realities and you're excited about building something transformative, we'd love to hear from you.
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About LabourNet
What do we do?
The trusted compliance partner to employers, solving their evolving compliance needs. We provide Leading compliance solutions through-out South Africa that implement best practices within the businesses we partner with.
We ensure ultimate compliance of your business throughout the entire employee life cycle by facilitating HR best practice!
The PSIber technology is that of the design, development and delivery of PSIberWORKS suite. The application services all types and sizes of organisations from the simple home user (for domestic workers payslips), to SMME’s and sophisticated corporates who process in excess of 10 000 employees online at any one time.
The core product is a robust, world-class, innovative, integrated, fully legislatively compliant, Payroll HR technology platform for any type or size company.
Our Culture
Our culture is centred on passion, our product, our people and our team is passionate about:
- TECHNOLOGY - building technology that is SIMPLE to use, STANDARDISED (aligned to best practice) and AUTOMATED.
- HUMAN CAPITAL- knowing that they are the key to the success of our business.
- Maintaining a world class reputation of being the best HCM service provider.
- EMPOWERING Human Capital to work their best, using our technology to become strategic assets to the businesses they own, manage or work for.
- SIMPLIFYING the management and admin to ensure our client's business is LEGISLATIVELY COMPLIANT.
- CRAVING success, especially our employee’s success and empowering and driving our clients and their success.
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