Data Engineering Manager

Digital Zone; Dubai; On-site; AED 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier compensation

High-growth environment

Collaborative regional team

Job summary

Digital Zone in Dubai invites a senior data leader to build and scale a production data platform across our digital goods, ticketing, and fintech domains.

You will own architecture, establish a single source of truth, and deliver self-serve analytics while ensuring data governance, PII handling, and multi-market reporting.

Join a high-growth team and shape telemetry, experimentation, and data-contracts across product and engineering to accelerate value.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software or data engineering with 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Experience building and operating a production data platform with batch and streaming ingestion.
• Deep SQL and dimensional modelling; comfortable with Python, TypeScript, Go, Postgres and AWS.
• Governance instincts treating access, PII and retention as design inputs.
• Judgment to sequence a platform build so value arrives early.
• MENA or emerging-market experience preferred for multi-currency reporting.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the data team, hiring, mentoring and growing data and analytics engineers
• Own technical strategy and architecture for the data platform, including ingestion, warehouse, orchestration and semantic layer
• Establish a single source of truth for core business metrics agreed with commercial, finance and product
• Deliver self-serve analytics so most questions are answered without a ticket
• Own data reliability: freshness SLAs, lineage, testing and alerting
• Partner with security and legal on governance, access control, retention and PII handling across markets
• Build foundations for data science, personalisation, fraud and risk, including event tracking and experimentation
• Partner with product and engineering so instrumentation and data contracts are designed into services

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Data platform design

SQL and dimensional modelling

AWS familiarity

Tools

PostgreSQL

Python

TypeScript

Go

AWS

Job description

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the data team, hiring, mentoring and growing data and analytics engineers
• Own technical strategy and architecture for the data platform, including ingestion, warehouse, orchestration and semantic layer
• Establish a single source of truth for core business metrics agreed with commercial, finance and product
• Deliver self-serve analytics so most questions are answered without a ticket
• Own data reliability: freshness SLAs, lineage, testing and alerting
• Partner with security and legal on governance, access control, retention and PII handling across markets
• Build foundations for data science, personalisation, fraud and risk, including event tracking and experimentation
• Partner with product and engineering so instrumentation and data contracts are designed into services

Requirements

• 8+ years in software or data engineering with 3+ years leading engineering teams
• Experience building and operating a production data platform with batch and streaming ingestion
• Deep SQL and dimensional modelling; comfortable with Python, TypeScript, Go, Postgres and AWS
• Track record of aligning organisations on metric definitions
• Governance instincts treating access, PII and retention as design inputs
• Judgment to sequence a platform build so value arrives early

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience standing up a data function from zero or consolidating fragmented reporting
• Analytics experience on e-commerce, marketplace, payments or fintech products
• Experience supporting data science and ML in production
• MENA or emerging-market experience, including multi-currency reporting

Benefits

• Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business
• Top-of-the-market compensation packages
• Work alongside top regional talent

About the Company

• Digital Zone operates digital goods, ticketing, travel and trading verticals across Iraq, the UAE and KSA.