Lead Data Engineer

Salt Digital Recruitment · dubai, dubai, United-Arab-Emirates

Location
dubai
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
June 08, 2026

Job Description

My client is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines that deliver trusted, analytics‑ready datasets for BI, AI, and operational use cases across a hybrid environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Build pipelines across bronze, silver & gold layers (Databricks, Spark, dbt)
  • Implement data quality checks, contracts & schema validation
  • Apply governance (catalog, lineage, RBAC, metadata)
  • Deliver curated datasets, features & embeddings for AI/BI
  • Monitor pipeline health, performance & cost to meet SLAs
Tech Stack
  • Databricks
  • Spark
  • Delta Lake
  • dbt
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Kafka/Event Hubs
  • CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub)
Governance & Ops
  • Enforce data contracts, lineage & cataloging
  • Apply masking, tokenisation & access controls (PII/PHI)
  • Build observable pipelines with alerts, dashboards & runbooks <...

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