Data Engineering Lead | Remote & Hands-on Leader

qlub; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

qlub seeks a Data Engineering Lead to run and scale its data platform on GCP, leading engineers while remaining hands-on. You will own ingestion, transformation, and analytics feeding internal reporting and AI tooling. Remote or hybrid with overlaps in Gulf Time.

You’ll shape architecture, data quality, and cost management while mentoring a team across multiple regions, including Dubai, India or Sri Lanka.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data or backend engineering on production systems.
• At least 1 year leading or mentoring data engineers in a tech setup.
• Proven data platform ownership across architecture, reliability and cost.
• Strong Python and SQL with production pipelines and services.
• 2+ years of production dbt experience; incremental models and tests.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day data platform delivery and prioritisation.
• Define engineering standards for code review, testing and data contracts.
• Own ingestion, transformation, and warehouse architecture.
• Drive reliability, incident response and CI/CD for data code.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, security and operations.

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

Python

SQL

dbt

BigQuery

Airflow

Cloud (GCP)

Security & governance

CI/CD

Tools

ClickHouse

Flink

Kubernetes

Terraform

Airbyte

Fivetran

Job description

qlub seeks a Data Engineering Lead to run and scale its data platform on GCP, leading engineers while remaining hands-on. You will own ingestion, transformation, and analytics feeding internal reporting and AI tooling. Remote or hybrid with overlaps in Gulf Time.

You’ll shape architecture, data quality, and cost management while mentoring a team across multiple regions, including Dubai, India or Sri Lanka.