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AWS Data Engineer

Ref: JO-2609-363491

United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi
Data, AI and Machine Learning, Technology
IT
1,000 - 4,999 Employee
AED 20,000.00 - AED 24,000.00 per month

Environment: In-office
Contract Type: Contract
Starts: 2026-12-01
Duration: 6 Months

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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.

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