Senior Data Engineer: Real-Time FinTech Pipelines

Deriv.com; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Deriv is seeking an experienced Data Engineer in Dubai to design and operate robust data pipelines powering trading analytics, compliance, and AI/ML workflows. You will own data accuracy end-to-end, enforce governance, and raise engineering standards across the team.

The role spans across data ingestion, modeling, and orchestration with GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, and Python. You will collaborate with analysts, product, and compliance to deliver trusted data at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data engineering with focus on reliable pipelines.
• Experience building end-to-end data platforms in fintech/regulatory contexts.

Responsibilities

• Design and build ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
• Ensure observability: freshness, lineage, quality checks, and alerts.
• Define data contracts and governance across teams.
• Optimize storage and compute for cost and performance.
• Collaborate with analytics, product, and compliance teams.

Skills

GCP

BigQuery

Airflow

Python

dbt / Dataform

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Data modelling

Data contracts

Tools

dbt / Dataform

Kafka

BigQuery

Job description

Deriv is seeking an experienced Data Engineer in Dubai to design and operate robust data pipelines powering trading analytics, compliance, and AI/ML workflows. You will own data accuracy end-to-end, enforce governance, and raise engineering standards across the team.

The role spans across data ingestion, modeling, and orchestration with GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, and Python. You will collaborate with analysts, product, and compliance to deliver trusted data at scale.