Salary, Location & Core Benefits: Location: Pretoria (Hybrid). Industry: Medical Devices / HealthTech. Experience Level: Manager. Company You’ll join a fast‑growing HealthTech organisation building life‑changing products that blend medical devices, cloud platforms, and data‑driven insights. The engineering culture is modern, collaborative, and impact‑focused, the kind where you get to shape infrastructure, own architecture decisions, and influence the future of their digital ecosystem. If you want to work at the intersection of healthcare + cloud + data, with real‑world impact, this is the one. Role Overview You're the technical leader owning everything cloud, data platform, DevOps, and security. Your mission: keep the AWS ecosystem stable, scalable, compliant and evolving fast. You'll spend your days: Designing high‑availability AWS architectures (Terraform / CDK) Leading cloud modernization and migrations to EKS / ECS / Lambda Owning the Amazon Connect environment and integrations Driving DevOps maturity and automated delivery pipelines Leading Master Data Management and Data Catalog initiatives Governing data quality, lineage, and "golden record" frameworks Implementing event‑driven architectures (SNS / SQS / Kinesis) Enforcing HIPAA / GDPR‑aligned security and data protection Managing cloud costs, tagging strategies, and optimisation Overseeing cloud security tools (GuardDuty, WAF, Security Hub) Mentoring technical teams and setting architectural standards Qualifications You’ll shine here if you: Have 10+ years in cloud engineering and 3+ years leading teams Hold a degree in Computer Science / Engineering (Honours/Certs = bonus) Are fluent in AWS data and compute services (Glue, S3, Lambda, Athena, Step Functions) Are comfortable with SQL + NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB) Have experience with MDM, "golden record" design, and Data Catalog governance Strong Python skills (PySpark especially for AWS Glue) Strong knowledge of data modelling, schema design, and optimisation Solid understanding of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform / CDK) Comfortable leading cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and AIOps tooling Security‑first mindset with proven AWS security experience Can translate technical architecture into clear, business‑friendly language Are curious, methodical, and calm under pressure and you care deeply about secure, scalable, elegant systems. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Director Of Platform And Data
SALT DIGITAL RECRUITMENT
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