Data Platform Lead - GCP & Real-Time Pipelines

Geidea; As Sudiyah; Hybrid; OMR 25,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Geidea is seeking an accomplished Data Engineer Sr. Manager to lead enterprise data platform initiatives on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will drive reliable, scalable data services, pipelines and analytics aligned with regulatory requirements and business priorities.

You will mentor a data engineering team, guide architectural decisions, and collaborate across BI, payments, and risk analytics. Strong SQL/Python and hands-on GCP experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• 3+ years in leadership or management of data teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field.
• Google Cloud certification preferred.
• Proven design, delivery and operation of production data platforms on GCP.
• Experience managing teams, roadmaps and platform operations in an enterprise.
• Background in fintech, payments or regulated industries is a plus.
• Strong SQL and Python programming skills.
• Hands-on experience with batch and streaming pipelines (Beam, Spark, Kafka).

Responsibilities

• Lead the data engineering roadmap aligned with data strategy and enterprise architecture.
• Oversee design, development, and operation of the data platform on GCP for reliability, security and scalability.
• Drive batch and real-time data pipelines across payment, transactions and external sources.
• Provide technical direction across GCP components and establish engineering standards.
• Develop well-modelled data products for BI, governance and analytics, including Vertex AI integration when needed.
• Mentor and develop the data engineering team, set objectives and review performance.
• Implement data quality, governance, lineage, retention and access controls in partnership with Stakeholders.
• Ensure security and privacy controls with Information Security and Compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements.

Skills

Data engineering

GCP

SQL

Python

BigQuery

Airflow

Terraform

dbt / Dataform

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification (preferred)

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Dataproc

Cloud Composer

Cloud Storage

Datastream

Dataplex

Data Catalog

Vertex AI

Beam

Spark

Kafka

Terraform

Job description

Geidea is seeking an accomplished Data Engineer Sr. Manager to lead enterprise data platform initiatives on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will drive reliable, scalable data services, pipelines and analytics aligned with regulatory requirements and business priorities.

You will mentor a data engineering team, guide architectural decisions, and collaborate across BI, payments, and risk analytics. Strong SQL/Python and hands-on GCP experience are essential.