Senior Data Engineer at Jobs for Humanity – Cairo | Jobyssey

Data Pipeline Development

Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines in Databricks to ingest, clean, and transform data from diverse product sources.
Construct gold layer tables in the Lakehouse architecture that serve both machine learning model training and real-time APIs.
Monitor data quality, lineage, and reliability using Databricks best practices.

AI-Driven Data Access Enablement

Collaborate with AI/ML teams to ensure data is modeled and structured to support natural language prompts and semantic retrieval using 1st and 3rd party data sources, vector search and Unity Catalog metadata.
Help build data interfaces and agent tools to interact with structured data and AI agents to retrieve and analyze customer data with role-based permissions.

API & Serverless Backend Integration

Work with backend engineers to design and implement serverless APIs (e.g., via AWS Lambda with TypeScript) that expose gold tables to frontend applications.
Ensure APIs are performant, scalable, and designed with data security and compliance in mind.
Utilize Databricks and other APIs to implement provisioning, deployment, security and monitoring frameworks for scaling up data pipelines, AI endpoints, and security models for multi-tenancy.

3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or related role in an agile, distributed team environment with a quantifiable impact on business or technology outcomes.
Proven expertise with Databricks, including job and workflow orchestration, change data capture and medallion architecture.
Proficiency in Spark or Scala for data wrangling and transformation on a wide variety of data sources and structures.
Practitioner of CI/CD best practices, test-driven development and familiarity with the MLOps / AIOps lifecycles.

Proven ability to work in an agile environment with product managers, front-end engineers, and data scientists.

Preferred Skills

Familiarity with AWS Lambda (Node.js/TypeScript preferred) and API Gateway or equivalent serverless platforms, knowledge of API design principles and working with RESTful or GraphQL endpoints.
Exposure to React-based frontend architecture and the implications of backend data delivery on UI/UX performance – including end-to-end telemetry to measure performance and accuracy for the end-user experience.
Experience with A/B testing, experiment and inference logging and analytics.

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