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Lead Data Engineer

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Job Title: Lead Data Engineer

Location: UAE (Dubai Preferred) – On-site

Experience: 11+ Years

Employment Type: Full-time


Immediate Joiners Preferred

We are hiring an experienced Lead Data Engineer for a large-scale Data Lakehouse modernization program with a leading retail group operating across the UAE and GCC region.

This role involves building a modern, scalable Data Lakehouse platform that will serve as the single source of truth for enterprise reporting, analytics, and future AI/ML initiatives.


Key Responsibilities

  • Build and manage end-to-end data ingestion pipelines from multiple enterprise systems
  • Implement CDC pipelines for real-time and near-real-time data processing
  • Develop Bronze, Silver, and Gold transformation layers with business rules and data enrichment
  • Design orchestration workflows with monitoring, alerting, and SLA tracking
  • Implement data quality frameworks, governance, and security controls
  • Enable reporting and analytics consumption layers for BI and downstream integrations
  • Support historical data migration from legacy cloud data warehouse platforms
  • Build scalable pipelines supporting AI/ML feature engineering and model training


Required Skills & Experience

  • 11+ years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering and Lakehouse environments
  • Strong expertise in Python and PySpark
  • Experience with AWS data services, Glue, EMR, DMS, Kinesis/Event Hubs, or equivalent
  • Strong CDC implementation experience using Debezium, DMS, or similar tools
  • Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Hudi
  • Strong dbt and SQL skills
  • Expertise in orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Step Functions
  • Experience with data quality frameworks like Great Expectations or Deequ
  • Strong understanding of IAM, PII masking, row-level and column-level security
  • Experience in dimensional data modeling for BI reporting


Preferred Skills

  • AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, BigQuery
  • Retail / E-commerce domain experience
  • Exposure to AI/ML data pipeline requirements and feature engineering
  • Relevant cloud or Databricks/Snowflake certifications preferred


Preferred Candidate

  • Immediate joiners only
  • Indian Origin Only
  • Strong hands-on engineering and architecture experience
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced on-site environment


Interested candidates can share their updated resume at:

📩 [email protected]

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