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Data Engineer – Databricks Jobs in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at ExecutivePlacements.com
Title: Data Engineer – Databricks
Company: ExecutivePlacements.com
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Data Engineer – Databricks
Recruiter:
Psybergate (Pty) LTD
Job Ref:
PR000796/RN
Date posted:
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Location:
Cape Town, South Africa
Salary:
Monthly
SUMMARY:
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Data Engineer – Databricks to join our financial services client on a contract basis (hybrid).
POSITION INFO:
What you will be doing:
- Act as Databricks Workspace Administrator, managing platform operations at scale
- Manage workspace governance, including access controls, cluster policies, job permissions, and cost/usage controls
- Design, create, and maintain Unity Catalog structures (catalogs, schemas, tables, and views)
- Implement and maintain permission models aligned to governance and compliance standards
- Manage identity and service principals, including least-privilege access models
- Support CI/CD, automation, and non-human identity integration across platforms
- Onboard and support tenant teams across analytics, ML, and GenAI workloads
- Run enablement sessions and provide guidance on best practices for Databricks usage
- Troubleshoot platform configuration and access issues
- Develop and maintain platform monitoring, dashboards, and alerting solutions
- Support SQL-based reporting and dashboard development within Databricks
- Maintain runbooks, documentation, and platform standards
- Drive automation, standardisation, and continuous platform improvement
- Support Hive/Glue and JDBC data pipeline setup and maintenance within Databricks
What we are looking for:
- Relevant Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or related field
- 4+ years’ industry experience in data engineering or platform engineering environments
- 2+ years’ hands-on experience as a Databricks Workspace Administrator
- Experience managing users, groups, and service principals (least-privilege access models)
- Strong understanding of data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads
- Experience working in enterprise or regulated environments with strong governance requirements
- Strong SQL skills and experience with dashboard development/maintenance
- Experience with Hive/Glue and JDBC data pipeline setup and maintenance
- Strong communication skills and ability to engage with multiple stakeholder/tenant teams
- Understanding of cloud data platform concepts (AWS or Azure)
Advantageous:
- Experience supporting ML and Generative AI workloads on Databricks (e.g., RAG, model serving, evaluation workflows)
- Experience integrating Databricks with CI/CD and automation pipelines
- Exposure to platform engineering standards, templates, and self-service onboarding models
- Cloud platform experience (AWS or Azure)
Please note if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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