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Claude Code AI Data Engineer - Remote - R650 per hour

E-Merge IT Recruitment
5 days ago
Part-time
Remote
R650 - R650 ZAR hourly
Web Development

Introduction

We are seeking a highly capable Data Engineer with strong experience in scalable data platforms, large-scale scraping, LLM integrations, and agentic AI systems. This role is ideal for a hands-on builder who enjoys solving complex data challenges and developing intelligent automation solutions that operate reliably in production environments.

You will play a key role in designing and building modern data pipelines, AI-powered workflows, and autonomous systems that can interact with tools, APIs, databases, and enterprise data sources.

Duties & Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines.
  • Experience specifically with Claude Code.
  • Ingest and process data from APIs, databases, files, event streams, and web sources.
  • Develop and maintain large-scale scraping and data acquisition systems.
  • Clean, validate, transform, and model data for analytics and AI applications.
  • Build LLM-powered workflows and agentic AI solutions using:
    • Tool calling
    • Structured outputs
    • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
    • API and database integrations
  • Support modern data lake, warehouse, and lakehouse architectures.
  • Implement monitoring, observability, schema validation, and data quality controls.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable production systems.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Strong experience with Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript.
  • Advanced SQL and relational database skills.
  • Proven experience building production-grade data pipelines.
  • Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with data lakes, warehouses, or lakehouse technologies.
  • Practical experience using LLM platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, or similar.
  • Experience building agentic workflows involving:
    • Tool use
    • Task decomposition
    • Retrieval systems
    • Memory
    • Human-in-the-loop workflows
  • Experience with scraping frameworks such as Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy, or Selenium.
  • Strong understanding of APIs, containers, CI/CD, testing, and secure engineering practices.

The Reference Number for this position is GZ61354 which is a Contract Remote role offering a salary of up to R650 per hour salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Garth on Garthz@e-merge.co.za or call him for a chat on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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