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Data Architect

A client values teamwork and is committed to the principles of integrity, transparency and performance excellence. They offer a stimulating work environment geared towards growth, innovation and appreciation. Not to mention that they are one of the most established financial services companies in the country!

They are actively looking for a Data Architect to join their team in Cape Town. You will be responsible for analysing their data needs and for this, you should have a background in analytics and various coding programs to analyse information and draw conclusions.

To apply, you need to have 5+ years’ working experience as a Data Architect coupled with 10+ years’ experience with all aspects of IT projects from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production support (SDLC).

You need to have 5+ years’ experience in leading a team through an architectural development process and collaborating with application development teams, architects and other members of the software development team.

You also need to have solid experience using the following:

• Architecture and design (UML, OO, SOA, etc.);
• Software frameworks and methodologies (Agile, TOGAF, etc.);
• RDBMS and advanced skills in query languages, especially SQL;
• BI solutions, decision support systems, OLAP technology; and,
• Modern data warehousing technologies such as Microsoft and Oracle.

This is no mean feat… So you will need to be a pretty seasoned, experienced person with a finger on the pulse in terms of new data and systems thinking.

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A client is actively looking for a Cloud (DevOps) Engineer to join the dynamic team in Cape Town. You will be responsible for deploying applications into production with the assistance of appropriate monitoring and proactively troubleshooting any issues that arise. To apply, you need a relevant IT Degree / Diploma OR in exceptional cases 6 years’ equivalent experience. You also need to have an AWS DevOps Professional Certification.

You need at least 1 years’ work experience as a DevOps / Cloud Engineer combined with 3-5 years’ experience in a technology-related field either as a FullStack Developer or Operations Engineer for Linux hosted applications.

You also need to have 2-3 years’ experience and/or knowledge of the following:

• Deploying and managing applications in the cloud
• Digital application patterns
• Application troubleshooting and root cause failure analysis
• SDLC automation and testing using Git based repositories, code build and pipeline
• Configure and deploy infrastructure using cloudformation, ECS and lambda
• Login and monitor applications using cloud trial, cloud watch and application specific logging
• Automate management of polices and standards using trusted advisor, secrets manager, and certificates manager; and
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery using CloudFront, Route53, and RDS