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Senior Data Engineer

Presight
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 5 days ago
Data engineeringData architectureData modelingData analysisMicrosoft Azure data stackAzure Data Factory
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The Opportunity

Presight is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own end-to-end data delivery from source-system analysis and architecture through modeling, pipeline engineering, and analytics enablement.

The role combines data engineering, data architecture leadership, and data analysis across a multicultural, multinational environment, with occasional travel to customer sites.

About Presight

Presight is an ADX-listed big data analytics company powered by GenAI and backed by Abu Dhabi-based G42.

The company provides data interpretation, analytics, and GenAI-driven products and solutions for public and private sector organizations.

Data Delivery and Architecture

  • Own requirements, sourcing, architecture, modeling, pipeline engineering, quality, and delivery of analytics-ready data.
  • Translate business and information needs into roadmaps and technical solutions.
  • Define target-state data architecture, infrastructure, source interfaces, and automated data-load tooling.
  • Design lake, warehouse, and lakehouse architecture across ingestion, storage, processing, serving, and consumption layers.
  • Analyze source systems and develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models, including star and snowflake schemas.

Pipelines and Data Quality

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable batch and real-time or streaming data pipelines.
  • Build orchestration, scheduling, logging, alerting, retry, and monitoring frameworks.
  • Optimize distributed data processing for performance, cost, and scalability.
  • Engineer data cleansing, integration, lineage, validation, reconciliation, and observability solutions.
  • Apply version control, code review, automated testing, and CI/CD practices to data assets.
  • Support modernization and migration of legacy data integration solutions.

Analytics and Stakeholders

  • Interpret complex datasets using statistical techniques and identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and root causes.
  • Build visualizations, self-service reporting, dashboards, and ongoing reports for stakeholders.
  • Work with management, IT, data owners, and diverse teams to prioritize needs and deliver solutions.
  • Communicate clearly across multinational teams and travel to customer locations as required by the business.
  • Comply with QHSE, business continuity, information security, privacy, risk, compliance, and governance policies.

Experience and Education

  • Minimum 10 years of relevant experience across data engineering, data architecture, data modeling, and data analysis.
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Proven data analyst experience with strong statistical methods and data visualization skills.
  • Demonstrated delivery of enterprise-scale data pipelines and platforms in production.
  • Mandatory hands-on experience with the Microsoft Azure data stack, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks or Synapse, ADLS Gen2, and Azure SQL.

Technical Skills

  • Advanced querying and manipulation, including complex logic, analytical functions, and performance tuning.
  • Programming proficiency in a data engineering or data analysis language.
  • Full data-model lifecycle experience, including granularity, facts and dimensions, and star and snowflake schemas.
  • ETL/ELT, data integration, workflow orchestration, and data-cleansing automation.
  • Distributed processing, big data, data warehousing, and lake or lakehouse architecture.
  • Statistics, business intelligence, data visualization, version control, CI/CD, and data quality practices.

Preferred Working Style

  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills with a self-driven, results-oriented, customer-centric mindset.
  • Curiosity about the reasons behind data patterns and resilience when handling ambiguity.
  • Collaborative approach suited to multicultural and multinational teams, with flexibility to travel.

What Presight Offers

  • An open, diverse, and inclusive environment focused on growth and ground-breaking innovation.
  • High-impact projects, continuous learning resources, healthcare, education support, leave benefits, and other rewards.

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