Enterprise Data Architect

Abu Dhabi Tax Free4 days agoFull-time External
Negotiable
The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and high-quality data pipelines and platforms that enable analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making. The role focuses on transforming raw data into trusted, accessible datasets while ensuring performance, security, and operational excellence across the data ecosystem. Key Roles & Responsibilities • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines for batch and real-time processing • Ingest, transform, and curate data from multiple internal and external sources • Build and optimize data models and datasets for analytics, reporting, and downstream consumption • Ensure data quality, completeness, and accuracy through validation, monitoring, and reconciliation checks • Implement and maintain data orchestration, scheduling, and automation workflows • Optimize data processing performance and cloud resource utilization • Collaborate with data architects to align implementations with enterprise data architecture standards • Work closely with analysts, data scientists, and business teams to understand data requirements • Support BI, analytics, and AI/ML use cases by delivering well-documented and trusted datasets • Implement data security, access controls, and privacy requirements within data pipelines • Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline failures and performance issues • Contribute to DevOps and CI/CD practices for data solutions • Document data pipelines, transformations, and operational procedures • Participate in code reviews and promote data engineering best practices Qualifications & Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field • Master’s degree is an advantage but not mandatory • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or backend engineering roles • Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines • Proven experience working with Relational and NoSQL databases, Data warehouses and data lakes, Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, Experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)