Lead Data Engineer | Scalable Pipelines & AI-Ready Data

Salt Digital Recruitment; Dubai; On-site; AED 334,800 - 446,400; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Dubai to design and build scalable data pipelines that deliver trusted datasets for BI, AI, and operational use. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience and a solid understanding of Azure data services.

Responsibilities include building pipelines, implementing data quality checks, and monitoring performance. A Bachelor's in Computer Science is required. The role offers opportunities to work with modern data technologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Data Engineering.
• Experience with Azure data services.
• Familiarity with CI/CD & container basics.

Responsibilities

• Build pipelines across bronze, silver & gold layers.
• Implement data quality checks, contracts & schema validation.
• Monitor pipeline health, performance & cost to meet SLAs.

Skills

Strong SQL

Data modeling (dimensional/data vault)

Proficiency in Python

Hands-on with Databricks

Hands-on with Spark

Hands-on with Delta Lake

Hands-on with dbt

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Kafka/Event Hubs

CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub)

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Dubai to design and build scalable data pipelines that deliver trusted datasets for BI, AI, and operational use. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience and a solid understanding of Azure data services.

Responsibilities include building pipelines, implementing data quality checks, and monitoring performance. A Bachelor's in Computer Science is required. The role offers opportunities to work with modern data technologies.