Senior Data Engineer

The Senior Data Engineer plays a critical role in enabling the Data Team to achieve its core OKRs, focusing on Data Governance, building a unified Financial Data Warehouse (DWH), and supporting financial risk and reporting needs. This role is responsible for the design, quality, and reliability of core financial data assets, ensuring scalable, high-performance data foundations and a trusted Single Source of Truth (SSOT) for business-critical KPIs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Warehouse Architecture & Modeling: Design and drive the architecture of the Financial Data Warehouse, including core dimensional models across key domains such as users, orders, repayments, and risk features, ensuring scalability, stability, and performance.
• Single Source of Truth (SSOT) Ownership: Lead the implementation and maintenance of a Single Source of Truth for critical business and financial KPIs across all products and stakeholders.
• Data Quality & Reliability: Establish and maintain robust data quality frameworks, including automated and manual validation, monitoring, and alerting for critical financial fact tables and risk-related datasets.
• Data Governance Enablement: Build and operationalize data governance practices, including metadata management, data standards, and quality methodologies, to support consistent and compliant data usage.

Key Requirements:

• Senior Data Engineering Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in big data platform development and maintenance, with strong proficiency in technologies such as Hive, Spark, and Flink, and deep expertise in DWH modeling, ETL design, and performance optimization.
• Data Governance Expertise: Proven experience building a data governance system from the ground up, including practical use of metadata management tools and formal data quality frameworks.
• Financial Services Domain Expertise (Mandatory): Extensive data experience within financial services, credit, payments, or risk control domains, with a strong understanding of financial business processes and data models related to loan origination, repayment, delinquency management, and risk feature engineering.

Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Work Conditions: On-site

Language Requirements: Not specified.