Data Engineer

Chalhoub Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury retail firm located in Dubai is seeking a Data Engineer to design and operate reliable data pipelines. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in building data pipelines, possessing strong skills in Python and SQL. Responsibilities include delivering data products that align with business goals, translating requirements into actionable tasks, and improving data warehouse performance. Competitive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Health care

Child education contribution

Remote and flexible working policies

Exclusive employee discounts

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of analytics/dimensional modelling concepts.
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery or similar cloud data warehouses.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technical solutions aligned to business goals.
• Build and maintain robust ingestion pipelines for new data sources.
• Improve data warehouse performance through model design.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Integration

Data Cleansing

ETL/ELT

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

Apache Airflow

Job description

Overview

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken to build a future where luxury dreams become reality — bridging cultures and crafting memorable experiences for our consumers. Be it by constantly reinventing itself, committing to innovation, or embracing new technologies, the Group is shaping the future of luxury retail. It delivers seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps. Driving this innovation journey is The Greenhouse — the Group’s innovation hub, incubator, and accelerator for startups and emerging businesses, regionally and globally.

Chalhoub Group fosters a people-at-heart culture rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a workplace catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. Today, it brings together over 16,000 talented professionals across eight countries in the Middle East, with a presence in LATAM. Their collective efforts have earned the Group the Great Place to Work® certification in several markets.

Sustainability is at the core of the Group’s strategy, guided by a clear commitment to people, partners, and the planet. Chalhoub Group is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, and to have pledged to reach Net Zero by 2040.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Data Engineer, you will design, build, and operate reliable data pipelines and data products—from solution design through development, testing, deployment, and documentation. This role offers strong ownership and the opportunity to shape how data is produced, transformed, and served across the business.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technical solutions that deliver data products aligned to business goals
• Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications and actionable delivery tasks
• Build and maintain robust ingestion pipelines for new data sources (using existing tools where possible and custom approaches when needed)
• Write clean, performant, secure Python for ETL/ELT, automation, APIs, and data validation
• Develop and orchestrate workflows using Google Cloud Platform services and related tooling
• Transform and prepare datasets for analytics and downstream consumption (e.g., marts, curated layers)
• Improve data warehouse performance through model design and query optimisation, including partitioning and clustering

What You’ll Need To Succeed

Must-have qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines (or equivalent)
• Advanced SQL skills and strong understanding of analytics/dimensional modelling concepts
• Strong Python skills (ETL/ELT, APIs, data validation, packaging, scripting)
• Hands-on experience with at least 3 of the following:

1. BigQuery or a similar MPP cloud data warehouse
2. Google Cloud Platform or comparable cloud platform (AWS/Azure)
3. Apache Airflow (or managed equivalent)
4. ETL/ELT development and operationalisation
5. BI/DWH concepts and practices

Proven experience integrating data from a variety of source types (APIs, databases, files, SaaS, event streams)

Experience with data cleansing, validation, and quality controls (tests, checks, anomaly detection)

Comfortable with collaborative development: code reviews, Git workflows, and structured releases

Demonstrated ability to optimise code and SQL performance to meet demanding analytics needs

Working understanding of DevOps practices: CI/CD, environment management, configuration management, and agile delivery

Nice-to-have

• Experience with dbt (models, tests, documentation, macros)
• Familiarity with data lineage/governance tooling (e.g., DataHub/OpenMetadata)
• Experience with monitoring/observability for pipelines

What We Can Offer You

With us,you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

We Invite All Applicants to Apply

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.