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🥝 Data Platform Engineer (36 Months FTC - Wits Health Consortium)

AJ Personnel | johannesburg, South-Africa | Posted June 24, 2026

Job Description

Reference: JHB -EvdM-1

Background

  • Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited (WHC) is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences
  • WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives
  • In addition, WHC offers a range of products and services to Academics

Duties & Responsibilities

Division: Wits Planetary Health Research

Main purpose of the job:

  • To design, implement, and manage a secure, scalable, and compliant Azure cloud environment underpinned by a Databricks Lakehouse Architecture
  • Support federated data analysis approaches, enable real-time data processing, and facilitate collaboration across three countries while maintaining strict data governance and privacy protections
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