Senior Data Engineer (Spark & Python Specialist)
WatersEdge Solutions • workfromhome, eastern cape • Posted June 03, 2026
Position Overview
Location: Remote (South Africa)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: Data Engineering | Cloud Platforms | Financial Services Technology
WatersEdge Solutions is partnering with a client to recruit a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer (Spark & Python Specialist) . This is a strong opportunity for a technically advanced engineer who enjoys building scalable, high-performance data solutions in a modern cloud environment. The role is ideal for someone who thrives on optimisation, code-first engineering, and modernising legacy data logic into clean, portable, Python-centric solutions.
About the Role
As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll serve as a key technical contributor within the engineering team, focused on building, maintaining, and optimising large‑scale data processing engines. You’ll work extensively with Spark, PySpark, Delta Lake, and cloud‑based lakehouse environments, helping shape a provider‑agnostic platform w...