Data Engineer

The Data Engineer will help deliver world-class big data solutions and drive impact for the dubizzle business. You will be responsible for exciting projects covering the end-to-end data life cycle - from raw data integrations with primary and third-party systems, through advanced data modeling, to state-of-the-art data visualization and development of innovative data products.

You will have the opportunity to build and work with both batch and real-time data processing pipelines. While working in a modern cloud-based data warehousing environment alongside a team of diverse, intense and interesting co-workers, you will liaise with other teams- such as product & tech, the core business verticals, trust & safety, finance and others - to enable them to be successful.

• Design and implementation of data products enabling data-driven features or business solutions
• Data warehouse modelling for operational and application data layers
• Coding standards in SQL, Python, ETL design
• Working with other departments on data products - i.e. product & technology, marketing & growth, finance, core business, advertising and others
• Participate in the early morning ETL status check rota
• Building data dashboards and advanced visualisations in Periscope Data with a focus on UX, simplicity and usability

• 3+ years of experience working with customer-centric data at big data-scale, preferably in an online / e-commerce context
• Be able to work autonomously without supervision on complex projects
• Knowledge of terminal operations and Linux workflows
• Experience with AWS data ecosystem (or other cloud providers)
• SQL development as part of agile team workflow
• Knowledge of modern real-time data pipelines is a strong plus (e.g. server less framework, lambda, kinesis, etc.)
• Top of class technical degree such as computer science, engineering, math, physics
• Data quality, system stability and security
• Ability to communicate insights and findings to a non-technical audience
• Experience with modern big data ETL tools is a plus (e.g. Matillion)
• ETL design and implementation in Matillion ETL
• Knowledge or relational relational and dimensional data models
• Real-time data pipelines and applications using serverless and managed AWS services such as Lambda, Kinesis, API Gateway, etc
• Experience with modern data visualization platforms such as Sisense (formerly Periscope Data), Google Data Studio, Tableau, MS Power BI etc
• 2+ years of experience with one or more programming languages, especially Python
• Raw data integrations with primary and third-party systems
• World-class SQL skills across a variety of relational data warehousing technologies especially in cloud data warehousing (e.g. Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Vertica, etc.)
• Strong track record in business intelligence solutions, building and scaling data warehouses and data modelling

• Competitive Tax-free Salary
• Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Multicultural environment with over 50 different nationalities
• Employee discounts at multiple vendors across the emirates
• Rewards & Recognitions
• Annual Air Ticket Allowance