Senior Data Engineer - Real-Time Platform (Databricks/Azure)

Entertainer Fz; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

The ENTERTAINER in Dubai, UAE, is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to build and maintain our next-generation data platform focusing on real-time and batch processing using Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics. You will design data pipelines, optimize data models, implement data quality checks, and collaborate with analysts and product teams to enable data-driven decisions.

Candidates should have a Bachelor's in CS/DS/Engineering and 4 years of experience with strong SQL and Databricks/Azure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar role.
• Expertise in SQL and writing complex optimized queries (SQL, T-SQL, Spark SQL).
• Hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark, Python/Scala/Java) and Delta Lake.
• Experience with Azure Synapse Analytics including data warehousing and performance tuning.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory or similar ETL tools.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and ETL/ELT methodologies.
• Proficiency in Python or Scala; Git; cloud experience (Azure).

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and related Azure services to ingest, process, transform and load data from diverse sources.
• Build and optimize data models and data warehouses in Azure Synapse Analytics ensuring performance, scalability and data integrity for analytical workloads.
• Develop and implement data quality checks, monitoring and alerting systems to ensure data accuracy, completeness and reliability.
• Write complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation and analysis in Databricks (Spark SQL), Azure Synapse (T-SQL) and MySQL environments.
• Collaborate with data analysts, other engineers, Product and other departments to understand data requirements and provide data solutions.
• Optimize data pipelines and Synapse workloads for performance and cost-efficiency.
• Implement data security and governance best practices within the data platform.
• Document data pipelines, data models and ETL processes clearly and comprehensively.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies and best practices in data engineering and cloud data platforms.

Skills

SQL and Spark SQL

Databricks (Spark)

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Data Factory

Python or Scala

Git version control

Data modeling

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Data Science / Engineering

Tools

Delta Lake

Databricks Workflows/Jobs

Azure Data Factory

Job description

The ENTERTAINER in Dubai, UAE, is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to build and maintain our next-generation data platform focusing on real-time and batch processing using Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics. You will design data pipelines, optimize data models, implement data quality checks, and collaborate with analysts and product teams to enable data-driven decisions.

Candidates should have a Bachelor's in CS/DS/Engineering and 4 years of experience with strong SQL and Databricks/Azure