Senior Data Engineer

Job description

The Senior Data Engineer will lead technical design, implementation, and delivery of an enterprise-grade AI-ready Data Lakehouse platform. Responsibilities include designing a unified Lakehouse using Medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) and open table formats such as Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg on cloud infrastructure hosted in Saudi Arabia. Build reusable automated ingestion frameworks (batch and streaming) for structured and unstructured data to feed AI models and semantic reasoning engines. Implement automated data quality circuit breakers and end‑to‑end data lineage tracking. Optimize data processing performance, ensure data governance and compliance, provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams in a collaborative co‑building model, and maintain long‑term operational ownership

Requirements

• Cybersecurity
• Git
• Compliance
• Strong software engineering experience with focus on data pipeline development
• Proficient in data architecture and scalable distributed systems
• Experience with AI‑ready Data Lakehouse design and implementation
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure hosted in Saudi Arabia
• Experience with batch and streaming data ingestion
• Proficient in data quality and governance

Skills