Job Overview
PRINCIPAL DATA ENGINEER – Financial Intelligence Platforms
📍 Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Remote | Enterprise Data & AI Centre)
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time | Permanent
🏗 Career Level: Principal Technical Leadership
🌍 Industry: FinTech | Data Engineering | Artificial Intelligence | Digital Banking | Enterprise Analytics
Build the Data Foundations Behind Intelligent Financial Decisions
An innovative global fintech enterprise is seeking a highly accomplished Principal Data Engineer to architect and optimize enterprise-scale data platforms that power advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, fraud detection, customer intelligence, and strategic financial decision-making.
You will lead the design of high-performance data ecosystems capable of processing large-scale financial information while enabling secure, reliable, and real-time intelligence across the organization’s digital financial platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Data Platform Architecture
- Design enterprise-grade financial data platforms.
- Develop scalable data ingestion frameworks.
- Optimize high-volume data pipelines.
- Improve platform reliability and performance.
Engineering Leadership
- Lead multidisciplinary data engineering teams.
- Establish engineering standards and best practices.
- Mentor senior technical professionals.
- Conduct architecture and code reviews.
Innovation
- Integrate AI-ready data infrastructure.
- Enhance data quality and governance.
- Evaluate modern data technologies.
- Promote automation across engineering workflows.
Business Collaboration
- Partner with analytics, product, and engineering leaders.
- Support executive reporting initiatives.
- Deliver technical strategy presentations.
- Align engineering objectives with business priorities.
Professional Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in data engineering or enterprise platform development.
- Proven experience building large-scale cloud data solutions.
- Strong leadership, analytical, and architectural capabilities.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Technical Expertise
- Data Engineering
- Apache Spark
- Apache Kafka
- SQL & NoSQL Databases
- Cloud Data Platforms
- ETL/ELT Architecture
- Python
- Data Lakehouse Architecture
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Data Governance
- AI Data Infrastructure
What We Offer
- Internationally competitive compensation package
- Annual performance and innovation bonus
- Fully remote work environment
- Premium international healthcare
- Sponsored cloud and data engineering certifications
- Annual technology conference sponsorship
- Flexible working arrangements
- Leadership mentoring programs
- Exposure to enterprise-scale global fintech initiatives
- Outstanding long-term technical and executive career progression
Don’t miss the chance to make a difference in the fintech and FX industry!
Apply now by clicking on the “Apply Now” button below.
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