AI & Data Center of Excellence – Abu Dhabi, UAE
Role OverviewAs a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure data platforms that power analytics and AI use cases across the organization.
This role is critical in enabling data-driven decision-making in financial services environments. You will work closely with data scientists, AI engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure data systems are robust, performant, and aligned with regulatory and operational requirements.
Experience Bands• Senior Data Engineer: 8–10 years of experience
• Data Engineer: 5–7 years of experience
• Design and implement robust ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data
• Build and manage scalable data lakes, data warehouses, and real-time data pipelines
• Ensure data quality, lineage, governance, and compliance across data platforms
• Enable reliable data availability for analytics, reporting, and AI systems
• Optimize data infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Collaborate with Data Science and AI teams to productionize machine learning pipelines
• Monitor and troubleshoot data workflows and system performance
• Implement best practices for data security and reliability
Candidates with experience in financial data environments will be highly valued, particularly in:
• Transaction data pipeline development and management
• Regulatory reporting and compliance data systems
• Risk and finance data marts
• Customer 360 and customer analytics platforms
Data Platforms
• Snowflake
• BigQuery
• Amazon Redshift
• Databricks
Data Processing Technologies
• Apache Spark
• Apache Kafka
• Apache Flink
Databases
• SQL databases
• NoSQL databases
DevOps & Engineering Practices
• CI/CD pipelines
• Version control systems (e.g., Git)
Containers & Infrastructure
• Docker
• Kubernetes
Cloud Platforms
• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Candidates will be evaluated based on:
• Complexity and scale of data systems built and maintained
• Reliability and performance of data pipelines in production environments
• Experience implementing data governance and compliance standards
• Exposure to AI and machine learning data pipelines
• Ability to design scalable and resilient data architectures
• Reliability of data pipelines (uptime, failure rate)
• Data latency and freshness
• Data quality and integrity metrics
• Cost optimization and efficiency of data infrastructure
• Stability and scalability of data platforms
• Experience working within financial data ecosystems
• Understanding of regulatory data requirements and compliance standards
• Exposure to MLOps and machine learning data pipelines
• Experience working in distributed or cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving and ownership mindset
Skills Required
- 8-10 years of experience
- Experience in financial data environments
What We Do
Our company was created by small team of seasoned professionals with almost 100 years of combined experience in the IT Industry who have come together with the common goal of solving software development's biggest challenge: delivering quality solutions on-time and on-budget. Now, with multi-national teams across the Americas we are ready to help you with your software consulting and staffing needs.
