Senior Data Engineer
Successfully
Req. VR-118739
Senior data engineer developing and operating Databricks / Spark pipelines and Delta Lake lakehouse layers on Azure for the Client. Accountable for pipeline reliability, data freshness and dataset quality against agreed SLAs.
Key tasks
• Develop and operate Databricks / Spark pipelines (PySpark, SQL, Delta Live Tables or Workflows).
• Design Delta Lake / lakehouse layers (bronze–silver–gold), partitioning and Unity Catalog governance.
• Build ETL/ELT jobs and orchestration with Azure Data Factory and/or Airflow; manage dependencies and retries.
• Implement data-quality checks and validation (expectations, reconciliation, anomaly alerts).
• Tune Spark job performance and cluster cost (autoscaling, Photon, job clusters, spot).
• Manage schema evolution and change control; document lineage and transformations.
Pipeline reliability and data freshness against agreed SLAs.
Accuracy and completeness of curated datasets.
Schema change management and backward compatibility for downstream consumers.
Documentation of data lineage and transformations (Unity Catalog, data catalogue).
Must have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years in data engineering, of which 3+ on Databricks / Apache Spark and 2+ on Azure data services (ADF, ADLS, Delta Lake).
Databricks (Workflows, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog), Apache Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL), Delta Lake.
Azure: Data Factory, Data Lake Storage Gen2, Key Vault, Event Hubs, Synapse or SQL DB; Azure DevOps CI/CD for notebooks and jobs.
Python and SQL at expert level; data modelling (dimensional, data vault) and ELT design.
Orchestration (ADF, Airflow), data-quality frameworks (Great Expectations, DLT expectations), monitoring and alerting.
Performance and cost tuning of Spark workloads; Git-based development and testing of pipelines.
Nice to have
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional; Azure DP-203.
Streaming (Structured Streaming, Kafka / Event Hubs).
dbt, Power BI semantic models, MLflow.
Experience in financial services, sovereign wealth / investment holding or other regulated enterprise environments.
Experience working with distributed teams (onsite UAE with nearshore India / offshore Poland squads).
Languages
English: C1 Advanced
Seniority
Senior
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Req. VR-118739
DWH Development
BCM Industry
17/09/2026
Req. VR-118739
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