OM Bank - Data Streaming Engineer

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Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description

At OM Bank, we strive to attract great people who are passionate about coming together for a higher purpose- building something unique and aspirational, always aiming to be the best they can be. We are rooted in our purpose of inspiring and enabling our customers to grow and sustain their prosperity.

Build, enhance, and maintain our real-time data pipeline. Work with various infrastructure and operations teams to maintain our data infrastructure. As a senior engineer on the Data Streaming Platform team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining data ingestion pipelines vital to the continued growth of the bank. You will collaborate with many teams across the bank to understand data needs and turn them into platforms and services, monitor and maintain the health of the data streams, and have an impact on the data ecosystem within Square.

KEY RESULT AREAS

Operational Delivery

Build, enhance, and maintain our real-time data pipeline

Work with various infrastructure and operations teams to maintain our data infrastructure

Be self-driven in identifying and documenting feature gaps, and designing and implementing solutions to them

Help build, modernize, and maintain services and tooling to ensure resiliency, fix data discrepancies, and enhance the customer experience

Monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with internal stakeholders

Mentor other engineers and help them grow; code reviews, guidance on best practices, leveraging your experience in the field

Technical Leadership

Participate in the engineering and other discipline’s community of practice

Share AWS knowledge and practical experience with community

Challenge and contribute to development of architectural principals and patterns

Compliance

Ensure solutions adhere to Olympus patterns, guidelines and standards

Operate within project environments and participate in continuous improvement efforts

Delivery Management

Follow and participate in defined ways of work including, but not limited to, sprint planning,

backlog grooming, retrospectives, demos and PI planning

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Experience of developing solutions in the cloud

Min of 3 - 5 years' experience with designing and developing streaming Data Pipelines for Data Ingestion or Transformation using AWS technologies

Experience with distributed log systems, such as Kafka and AWS Kinesis

redPanda or Confluence experience advantageous

Experience in developing data warehouses and data marts

Experience in Data Vault and Dimensional modelling techniques

Experience working with automated data warehousing solutions would be advantageous

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar fields like Information Systems, Big Data, etc.

AWS Data Engineer Certification would be advantageous

Related Technical certifications

Skills

Action Planning, Business Requirements Analysis, Computer Literacy, Database Administration, Database Reporting, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Data Management, Data Modeling, Executing Plans, Gaps Analysis, Information Technology (IT) Support, IT Architecture, IT Implementation, IT Network Security, Market Analysis, Test Case Management, User Requirements Documentation

Competencies

Action Oriented

Business Insight

Cultivates Innovation

Drives Results

Ensures Accountability

Manages Complexity

Optimizes Work Processes

Persuades

Education

Bachelors Degree (B)

Closing Date

03 November 2025, 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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