GCP Data Platform Leader – Fintech & Analytics

Geidea; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Geidea is seeking a Data Engineer Sr. Manager to lead the development and operation of the enterprise data platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

You will drive scalable data pipelines, ensure data quality, security, and regulatory compliance across payments and analytics. You will provide technical direction, manage the team, and collaborate with business stakeholders to align data initiatives with strategy, architecture, and governance while delivering reliable data services for BI and AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or related roles.
• 3+ years in data engineering leadership/management.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• Proven experience delivering production data platforms on GCP.
• Experience managing engineering roadmaps and platform operations in an enterprise.
• Experience in fintech/payments or regulated industries preferred.
• Strong hands-on with GCP tools listed (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer).
• Advanced SQL and strong Python skills.
• Experience with batch and streaming pipelines (Beam, Spark, Kafka).
• Knowledge of data warehousing, lakehouse, and data modelling.
• Background in Airflow, dbt/Dataform, Terraform, and CI/CD.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and privacy frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the data engineering roadmap aligned to data strategy.
• Oversee design, development, and operation of the data platform on GCP.
• Lead batch and real-time data pipelines across payment and transactional systems.
• Provide technical direction across the GCP data environment and enforce standards.
• Develop well‑modeled, reusable data products for BI, reporting, and analytics.
• Lead and grow the data engineering team, set objectives, review performance.
• Establish data quality and governance practices with stakeholders.
• Ensure security and privacy controls across the platform in coordination with security teams.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python programming

Airflow

Terraform

CI/CD

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Technology/Software Engineering

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Dataproc

Cloud Composer

Cloud Storage

Datastream

Dataplex

Data Catalog

Beam

Spark

Kafka

dbt/Dataform

Job description

Geidea is seeking a Data Engineer Sr. Manager to lead the development and operation of the enterprise data platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

You will drive scalable data pipelines, ensure data quality, security, and regulatory compliance across payments and analytics. You will provide technical direction, manage the team, and collaborate with business stakeholders to align data initiatives with strategy, architecture, and governance while delivering reliable data services for BI and AI