Senior Data Engineer (Investment Data)

Luxoft; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 290,000 - 469,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to design, build, and operate data pipelines and models powering analytics across investment teams. You will own data end-to-end—from ingesting vendor and internal sources to modeling in the lakehouse and making data discoverable, reliable, and cost-efficient.

You will collaborate with BAs/PMs and quants, optimize pipelines using PySpark and Databricks, and help implement governance, testing, and production-ready datasets in complex

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience.
• Hands-on Databricks in production environments.
• Strong PySpark and SQL in production.
• Experience with Declarative Pipelines / orchestration on Databricks.
• Solid understanding of ingestion, transformation, incremental processing, testing, and performance tuning.
• Experience delivering production-ready datasets with monitoring and reliability patterns.
• Familiarity with vendor market data feeds (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv, MSCI, FactSet).

Responsibilities

• Participate in requirements clarification and sprint planning.
• Design and implement ETL pipelines using PySpark.
• Optimize ETL processes for performance and scalability.
• Write unit and integration tests.
• Support QA in acceptance process.
• Resolve PROD incidents as a 3rd line engineer.

Skills

PySpark

SQL

Databricks

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Data governance

Delta Lake

Data ingestion

ETL design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Information Systems

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Dynatrace

Datadog

Azure / AWS

Job description

Project description

We're looking for an experienced, hands-on Data Engineer who is capable of designing, building, and operating data pipelines and models that power analytics and applications across investment teams and Middle/Back office. The ideal candidate has financial markets familiarity (securities, prices, corporate actions, positions/holdings) and thrives in ambiguous environments - proactively shaping solutions, not waiting for tickets. You'll own data end-to-end: from ingesting vendor and internal sources, to modeling in our lakehouse, to making data discoverable, reliable, and cost-efficient. You'll partner closely with BAs/PMs and quants, anticipate downstream needs, and propose pragmatic architectures that balance speed, governance, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Participate in requirements clarification and sprint planning sessions.
• Design technical solutions and implement them, inc ETL Pipelines - Build robust data pipelines in PySpark to extract, transform, using PySpark
• Optimize ETL Processes - Enhance and tune existing ETL processes for better performance, scalability, and reliability
• Writing unit and integration tests.
• Support QA teammates in the acceptance process.
• Resolving PROD incidents as a 3rd line engineer.

SKILLS

Must have

• Bachelor's degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline).
• 5+ years experience in data engineering roles (flexible based on depth of capability).
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks in production environments (prerequisite).
• Strong programming experience with PySpark (must) and strong SQL (must).
• Proven experience with Declarative Pipelines / pipeline orchestration on Databricks (prerequisite).
• Strong understanding of data engineering fundamentals: ingestion patterns, transformation design, incremental processing, testing, performance tuning.
• Experience delivering production-ready datasets with appropriate operational controls (monitoring, troubleshooting, reliability patterns).
• Experience with modern Lakehouse concepts (Delta tables, optimization strategies, file skipping, metadata/statistics awareness).
• Exposure to data governance practices: cataloguing, documentation, business glossary/terms, lineage.
• Experience working in enterprise environments with CI/CD pipelines and structured release processes.
• Familiarity with vendor market data feeds (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv, MSCI, FactSet) or similar multi-source mastering patterns.

Nice to have

• Strong Hands-on Expertise in Palantir Foundry. Proven experience with Foundry pipelines, ontologies, data lineage, transformations, and platform governance.
• Proven Migration Experience from Palantir / to Databricks. Demonstrated experience leading or executing platform migrations, including pipeline conversion, data model redesign, and production cutover.
• Familiarity with Dynatrace or Datadog for system observability and monitoring.
• Databricks certification, cloud certifications (Azure/AWS), or enterprise data architecture certifications.