Data Engineering Manager
Role Overview
Establish, scale, and lead the data engineering organization.
Define the core data platform architecture and build a trusted single source of truth across the business.
This is a remote role that must align with UAE working hours.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Establish, scale, and lead the data engineering organization.
Define the core data platform architecture and build a trusted single source of truth across the business.
This is a remote role that must align with UAE working hours.
What you will do
- Hire, mentor, and develop data and analytics engineers.
- Own platform strategy for batch and streaming ingestion, warehousing, orchestration, and semantic modeling.
- Align business metrics and reliable data delivery with Product, Finance, and Commercial leadership.
- Develop self-service capabilities, automated testing, freshness SLAs, and proactive alerting.
- Embed multi-jurisdiction compliance, access controls, and sensitive PII handling in the architecture.
- Coordinate data contracts, event tracking, and foundational data for experimentation, ML, and fraud detection with software engineering.
What you will bring
- 8+ years in software or data engineering and 3+ years directly managing, hiring, and mentoring engineering teams.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating scaled production data platforms.
- Strong SQL and dimensional modeling skills; modern cloud stack examples include AWS, Postgres, Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Skill in build-versus-buy trade-offs, cloud cost optimization, and sequencing platform milestones for early business value.
- A track record of achieving consensus on data definitions and operationalizing data contracts across product teams.
- Deep knowledge of data privacy, retention policies, and securing sensitive data across international regulatory environments.
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