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# Data Engineer III at Elsevier

**Location**
: Johannesburg, Gauteng · Cape Town, Western Cape · +1

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: not_specified

**Posted**
: Mar 31, 2026

## Description

The Data Engineer will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and integrations supporting analytics and AI use cases. The role focuses on SQL-based data querying, transformation, validation, performance tuning, data modeling, database and data-platform management, automation, troubleshooting, code quality, and collaboration with technical and business partners. Candidates need professional data engineering or related experience, strong SQL skills, programming or scripting knowledge, database or cloud experience, and familiarity with ETL/ELT, version control, testing, data visualization, and AI or automation practices.

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