AWS Data Engineer

Salary – AED 24,000 – AED 24,500 Per Month

Contract Length – 6 Months (view to extend)

Start Date – ASAP

The role will focus on building scalable AWS-based ingestion pipelines, optimizing performance, and ensuring alignment with architecture and data quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines using AWS Glue, PySpark, S3, Athena, and Lambda.
• Implement CDC, full load, delta, snapshot, and historical loading patterns.
• Develop and optimize Bronze-layer ingestion pipelines.
• Improve pipeline performance through partitioning, parallelization, and AWS best practices.
• Automate deployment and infrastructure using Git and Terraform.
• Ensure pipelines comply with data contracts, monitoring, and data quality standards.
• Work closely with Data Architects, Data Assurance, and Platform teams.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive migration and engineering activities.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS data services, particularly Glue, S3, Athena, and Lambda.
• Strong PySpark and ETL/ELT development experience.
• Good understanding of Lakehouse architecture and Medallion design principles.
• Experience with CDC, batch ingestion, delta loads, and historical data migration.
• Experience with Git, Terraform, CI/CD, and Agile/Jira.
• Banking or financial services experience is an advantage