Senior Data Engineer
WHO WE ARE
DLG (Digital Luxury Group) is a Swiss-headquartered company building an AI-powered market intelligence platform used by leading luxury brands to understand their markets, competitors, and consumers. Our platform processes millions of data points across search trends, social signals, and market movements to give luxury executives clarity they can't get anywhere else.
We're growing our tech team in South Africa as part of our international operation spanning Europe, China and the US. You'll work on real products using Python, BigQuery, cloud infrastructure, and AI/LLM integrations — with direct impact and genuine ownership of what you build.
This is a fully remote position based in South Africa - Cape Town. WHAT YOU’LL DO We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to make a significant contribution to our core data platform. Key focus is on maintenance, enhancement and optimization of existing data pipelines. We will also expect key involvement in new development initiatives, requiring database architecture, design and development.
The role is reporting to our Head of Data, based in Shanghai.
Responsibilities
- Design and development of data processing, data cleansing, data transformation and QA scripts using Python and SQL
- Operations, maintenance and enhancements of existing mission-critical data pipelines and ETLs including
- Monitoring and regular maintenance of data pipelines, ensuring data reliability and quality standards
- Enhancements to meet evolving business requirements
- Optimization of ETLs for performance
- Migration of legacy data pipelines into more a scalable architecture
- Typical data engineering responsibilities including
- SQL database design, maintenance and optimization
- Fetching datasets from external data sources: REST API, JSON or CSV
- Performing data migrations and batch data updates
- Exploratory projects including
- Analysis of various datasets to support business requirements
- Developing Proof-of-concept of new data pipelines
- Working with other data team members to complete common deliverables and provide technical expertise
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE
Required:
- Graduate in Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields
- At least 2 years relevant experience in data engineering, database or ETL development
- Excellent skills in Python
- Excellent skills in SQL and data warehouse design/development
- Experience with ETL development and maintenance
- An “AI-first” mindset: leveraging the latest AI technologies to increase both the speed and quality of what we do
Nice to have:
- Experience with PostgreSQL and BigQuery
- Experience with Apache Airflow
- Experience with dbt
- Experience with GCP or similar cloud platforms
General:
- Ability to work independently and with team members from different backgrounds
- Strong result orientation and ownership
- Proficient in English (writing and speaking)
- Passionate about new technologies and innovation
WHAT WE OFFER
- Highly competitive package, above market rates for the right candidate
- Remote-friendly role with international team collaboration across Switzerland, the UK and China
- Direct exposure to senior leadership — no layers of middle management
- Opportunity to grow with a platform that's scaling across the luxury industry
- Wellbeing and learning support