Senior Data Engineer: Lakehouse & AI-Ready Pipelines

Salt Digital Recruitment; Dubai; On-site; AED 223,200 - 334,800; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines in Dubai. This role focuses on delivering analytics-ready datasets for business intelligence and AI applications.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience, strong SQL skills, and expertise in Databricks and Spark. The position also involves monitoring pipeline performance and implementing data quality checks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Data Engineering.
• Strong SQL and data modeling expertise.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Hands-on with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake and dbt.
• Experience with Azure data services.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Data Engineering

SQL

Python

Databricks

Spark

data modeling

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Kafka/Event Hubs

CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub)

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines in Dubai. This role focuses on delivering analytics-ready datasets for business intelligence and AI applications.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience, strong SQL skills, and expertise in Databricks and Spark. The position also involves monitoring pipeline performance and implementing data quality checks.