- Experience range - 6 to 10 yrs
- Design and Implement Data Solutions: Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable and secure Azure-based data platforms, ensuring integration with various data sources and business systems. Deliver at least 2 major projects every year with a focus on data engineering best practices.
- Optimize Data Pipelines: Build and optimize end-to-end data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and Azure Synapse, with an emphasis on automating data workflows. Achieve a 20% reduction in pipeline execution times within the first 6 months.
- Cloud Infrastructure Management: Manage and maintain the Azure data environment, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. Track and improve system uptime to exceed 99.9% reliability.
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Partner with data scientists, data analysts, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into efficient data solutions. Facilitate at least 3 collaborative sessions per quarter to address key business use cases.
- Ensure Data Security & Compliance: Implement data security measures, ensuring compliance with industry regulations (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) and company policies. Achieve and maintain full compliance in all data environments within the first quarter of onboarding.
- Continuous Learning & Knowledge Sharing: Stay up-to-date with emerging Azure technologies, and mentor junior engineers to promote knowledge sharing. Complete 1 Azure certification annually and conduct at least 2 internal knowledge-sharing sessions per year.
- Sound knowledge of data governance practices, data quality management, and data security principles.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping our organization's data-driven journey, driving innovation through data analytics and insights.
- Optimize data storage, processing and retrieval mechanisms for performance, cost, and scalability using data storage services (such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Database, etc.), data processing services (such as Azure Data Bricks, Azure Synapse, etc.) and data visualization (PowerBI, Qlik, etc.) & integration services (Data API builder, logic apps, etc.)
- Monitor and troubleshoot data platform performance, identify and resolve issues, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployment, configuration, and monitoring processes using Azure DevOps, PowerShell, or other relevant tools.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends and advancements in cloud data services and provide recommendations on adopting new technologies or features to enhance the data platform.
- Document technical designs, procedures, and guidelines for data platform engineering and operations
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What We Do
Founded in 1973 in Bahrain, Landmark Group has grown to become one of the largest and most successful omnichannel retail and hospitality conglomerates, with presence across 17 countries in the Middle East, Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Based in the UAE since 1990, the Group owns and operates 21 established homegrown and 4 franchise brands across an extensive network of more than 2,200 outlets, encompassing a gross leasable area of 30 million square feet.
Landmark Group's success is driven by its diverse portfolio of established brands, across multiple retail categories, offering a comprehensive range of products across fashion, home, groceries and electronics. These include Centrepoint, Max Fashion, Home Centre, Babyshop, Splash, Shoemart, Lifestyle, Viva, Emax, Home Box, Styli, Shoexpress, Spar and Easybuy.
Beyond retail, Landmark Group has diversified into the leisure, fitness and hospitality sectors with brands like Fitness First, Citymax, Fun City, Fun Ville, Zafran and Carluccio’s. The Group boasts unparalleled logistics capabilities, owning the MENA region's largest privately-owned distribution hub - Omega Logistics and Logistiq, which offers state-of-the-art third-party logistics services.
Landmark Group places a strong emphasis on delivering exceptional value and achieving customer satisfaction throughout its comprehensive product range. Across its loyalty programmes, the Group enjoys a loyal customer base with more than 35 million active users.
The company has a dedicated workforce of more than 53,000 employees and continues to be certified as a Great Place to Work (GPTW) since 2017.
