- Location
- ZA
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Lead
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Vincere
Description
This is not a standard maintenance role; it is a strategic architecture and leadership position. As the Principal Database Engineer, you will serve as the premier technical authority guiding the design, development, and delivery of enterprise data warehouse, BI, and integration solutions. You will partner with cross-functional leaders to translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable, and future-proof data ecosystems, transitioning legacy systems into modern, AI-adaptable architectures.
Profile for Success:
- A proven track record of architecting and delivering enterprise-scale relational database, ETL, data warehouse, and BI solutions (minimum 8 years).
- Demonstrated hands-on success working deeply within the Oracle ecosystem (Oracle Exadata, 19c+, SQL/PL/SQL, complex stored procedures).
- Evidence of technical leadership—specifically guiding teams, advising stakeholders, and extracting complex requirements to build semantic layers and physical/business presentation metadata (OAS/Enterprise BI).
- A forward-looking technologist who has successfully incorporated or experimented with modern data tools (Python, Spark, REST APIs, Cloud data platforms).
Skills
PythonSQLOracleSparkETLREST