Senior Data Engineer

Posted 02 May 2025
Salary Competitive salary and benefits
LocationDubai
Job type Permanent
Discipline Data & Analytics

Job description

Why This Role?

This is your opportunity to join a fast-growing fintech startup that’s transforming how businesses manage their spending. If you're passionate about building scalable data systems and enabling smarter decisions through clean, actionable data—read on.

What You’ll Get to Do

  • Build the next generation of data infrastructure that powers smarter corporate expense management

  • Enable sales and marketing through automation and real-time, data-driven insights

  • Optimize and scale reliable, high-performance databases and analytics pipelines

  • Tackle complex challenges related to data scalability, performance, and compliance

  • Lead data governance initiatives and help shape the company’s data strategy

What You Bring

  • 5+ years of experience working with large, complex datasets

  • Expertise in designing and optimizing databases, especially PostgreSQL

  • Strong in advanced SQL, capable of querying and transforming massive data sets

  • Experience with dimensional data modeling and data warehouse schema design

  • Hands-on knowledge of tools like Kafka, ElasticSearch, and BigQuery

  • Proficient in data streaming platforms such as mParticle, RudderStack, or Segment

  • Skilled in BI and visualization tools like Looker, Tableau, or similar

  • Experience deploying infrastructure with Terraform (Infrastructure-as-Code)

  • Comfortable working within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem

  • Strong communicator, able to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable, high-performance data infrastructure

  • Partner with engineering teams to create or improve complex data models

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to define data requirements and drive decision-making

  • Optimize database performance through schema design, indexing, and sharding

  • Build and maintain both batch and streaming pipelines for core business functions

  • Support deployments, data migrations, and system upgrades

  • Develop ETL workflows, dashboards, and reports for business visibility

  • Ensure data governance, including data quality, lineage, and security

  • Ensure compliance with data regulations in UAE and KSA

  • Contribute to documentation, testing, and continuous improvement of data systems

  • Be available for on-call support, when required

Apply Now!