Senior Manager Data Engineering

Job Purpose Summary: The incumbent is responsible for building and maintaining the data infrastructure that enables data analysis and data science. They design construct test and optimize data pipelines databases data warehouses and other data systems. They also ensure data quality reliability and performance through strong programming database and software engineering skills as well as knowledge of data architectures and frameworks.

• Plan and monitor the implementation of development lifecycle strategies policies standards and guidelines for design selection development and ongoing maintenance of systems
• Contribute to data model deployment in test and production and creating data workflow automation
• Ensure proper implementation of strategies policies standards and guidelines of project management and control to deliver the projects assigned objectives within the limited resources time and budget
• Implement test plans and scripts standards
• Monitor and recommend solutions to cater for the user business requirements and provide the most adequate systems to resolve these requirements
• Carry out any projects or assignment as assigned by Data Scientist or Data Analysis
• Participate proactively in any new projects that require deployment or during the acquisition of new tool/technology required by the Group and follow up on the progress of ongoing projects
• Implement and ensure readiness of all data tools or software required by data scientist team to assist them in building analytics models
• Implement and ensure all quarries and data set are provided on time and with quality to Data Analysis team to assist them in their analytics
• Implement automated processes and data monitoring techniques to ensure data quality ensuring production data is accurate and available for key stakeholders
• Ensure all dev/test environment setup and configuration are delivered on time with quality
• Recommend live operations of the systems or retirement of the system with the Group s IT architecture based on business objective and strategy
• Ensure compliance and adherence to existing standards and policies by all the Data Development staff and follow the most recent control objectives and best practices
• Implement tasks according to the prioritization based on the overall business plans and other factors of limitation and urgencies
• Ensure the enforcement of segregation of critical role as Developer and Tester as well adherence to all data governance and quality guidelines

Education & Experience Requirements:

• University graduate preferably with a Major in in computer science data science software engineering information systems or related quantitative field
• At least 8 years of relevant experience preferably within a Data Engineer role
• Experience building and optimizing data pipelines architectures data sets and all its underlying environments
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (including report writing) in English and Arabic
• Excellent Coding knowledge Python Golang Ruby Perl Scala Java SAS R MATLAB C and C etc
• Excellent Data Warehouse solutions technical knowledge such as Panoply or Redshift
• Excellent OS administrative knowledge MS Linux Solaris UNIX etc
• Excellent database and relational database related administrative knowledge MySQL Oracle SQL Etc
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools (ETL Airflow etc.) and big data tools (Hadoop Spark Kafka etc)
• Ability to make decisions and follow through with initiatives

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