Personal & Private Banking (PPB) Data Engineering Graduate Programme

Business Segment: Personal & Private Banking

Company: Standard Bank of South Africa

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street

The Data Engineering Graduate Programme is a structured development pathway designed to attract, develop, and retain high potential graduates with strong analytical and technical aptitude. The programme provides graduates with hands on exposure to enterprise scaled data platforms, modern data engineering practices, and real business cases, while building a sustainable pipeline of future Data Engineers for the organisation.

Graduates will rotate through core components of the data engineering lifecycle, including data ingestion, transformation, modelling, and data quality, while being mentored by experienced Engineers and Analysts.

The programme aims to:

• Build foundational data engineering capability.
• Create a standardised onboarding and upskilling framework aligned to enterprise data architecture, governance, and engineering standards.

• Assist with the development and maintenance of ETL/ELT pipelines using approved tools and platforms.
• Support data ingestion from diverse sources (databases, files, APIs, external vendors).
• Participate in data transformation and modelling activities to support analytics and reporting.
• Implement and monitor basic data quality and data integrity checks.
• Contribute to data documentation, metadata, and lineage artefacts.

• Support production data pipelines through monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
• Participate in sprint planning, stand ups, and delivery ceremonies (Agile/Hybrid).
• Assist with testing, validation, and release activities within governed environments.
• Complete structured learning paths covering:
  • SQL and data modelling fundamentals.
  • Cloud data platforms and modern data architectures.
• Actively seek feedback and participate in mentoring and coaching sessions.
• Demonstrate continuous learning and improvement through practical application.

• Work closely with Data Analysts, BI developers, and business stakeholders.
• Communicate clearly on progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Adhere to data governance, security, and compliance policies.
• Understanding of data concepts such as tables, schemas, keys, transformations and datamodels.

CompletedUndergraduatedegree(within the last 2-3 years)orPostgraduatequalification (completedwithin the last 2-3 yearsor completing in 2026):

• Computer Science
• Information Systems / Information Technology
• Engineering (Computer, Industrial, Electrical, or similar)
• Mathematics, Statistics, or Analytics

• Basic proficiency in SQL (queries, joins, aggregations).
• Understanding of relational databases and structured data concepts.
• Understanding of data concepts such as tables, schemas, keys, and transformations and datamodels.
• Must be a South African citizen.
• Should you have work experience, it should not exceed 12 months.
• Full academic transcripts to be submitted with application for undergraduate and postgraduate studies.