Remote Senior Data Engineer: AI Platform

Smart Working; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 2,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working in Islamabad is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale the data infrastructure powering an AI platform for property management. You will define real-time pipelines, vector databases, and ML data workflows, collaborating across AI, backend, product and leadership teams.

As the first senior data hire, you’ll shape the data function, establish best practices, and help build the team as the company grows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional data engineering experience.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines and distributed systems.
• Strong PostgreSQL (or MySQL) and NoSQL experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure for AI and product systems.
• Design ingestion, transformation and storage architectures for operational and AI workloads.
• Develop and manage batch and real-time data workflows.
• Build and optimise vector search and ML data pipelines.
• Ensure data reliability, security and governance across the platform.
• Collaborate with AI/backend teams to support training and product features.
• Implement monitoring, observability and data quality frameworks.
• Optimize performance of large datasets and queries.
• Contribute to long-term data strategy and architecture decisions.
• Define data function culture and hiring bar as the team scales.

Skills

Data pipelines design

Distributed data systems

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL databases

Vector databases

Python

Data modeling

Performance optimization

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache Airflow

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

PostgreSQL / MySQL

Vector databases (Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector)

Job description

Smart Working in Islamabad is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale the data infrastructure powering an AI platform for property management. You will define real-time pipelines, vector databases, and ML data workflows, collaborating across AI, backend, product and leadership teams.

As the first senior data hire, you’ll shape the data function, establish best practices, and help build the team as the company grows.