
Al Futtaim
Data Engineer
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 07/02/2026
Job overview
Date posted
24/12/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Job description
The Data Engineer (Corporate Services – Group Technology & Digital Platforms) role at Al-Futtaim Private Company LLC is responsible for transforming complex data from SAP and non-SAP sources into valuable business insights that support enterprise-wide decision-making. The role involves participating in requirement assessments, implementing high-quality, scalable, and governed data solutions, and supporting diverse business needs across the organization. The Data Engineer collaborates closely with product owners, scrum masters, solution architects, development teams, and internal and external partners to design, develop, test, and deploy analytics and data engineering solutions. The position focuses on implementing robust and reusable data pipelines using the Microsoft Azure toolset and Databricks, ensuring adherence to software development and maintenance standards and best practices. The role includes governing solutions, assessing complex new data sources across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, and ensuring data quality, completeness, and business value. The Data Engineer is accountable for estimating and delivering multiple project assignments and system change requests within agreed timelines and resources, governing the technology implementation of solution designs, and maintaining alignment between data insights solutions and business objectives. The role requires deep expertise in cloud-based analytics solutions, Azure and Databricks platforms, big data and data warehouse architectures, DevOps processes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code, while supporting scalable enterprise analytics capabilities across Al-Futtaim Group’s diversified business divisions.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Partner with product owners, scrum masters, and solution architects to deliver scalable and governed data engineering and analytics solutions
- Review and analyze business requirements to design and implement appropriate technical data solutions
- Collaborate with internal and external implementation team members to develop, test, and deploy data and analytics solutions
- Adhere to software development and maintenance standards by applying development best practices
- Implement robust, reusable, and scalable data pipelines using the Microsoft Azure toolset and Databricks
- Estimate and deliver multiple project assignments and system change requests within agreed resourcing models and delivery timelines
- Govern data solutions and assess complex new data sources across SAP and non-SAP systems
- Analyze structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets to ensure data quality, completeness, and business value
- Govern the technology implementation of approved solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards
Experience & skills
- Possess 8+ years of experience working with Azure and Databricks platforms
- Have a minimum of 5+ years of experience implementing analytics capabilities from conceptualization to delivery on the Azure platform
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related academic discipline
- Demonstrate expertise in data ingestion, data processing, and analytical pipelines for big data and data warehouse solutions
- Show experience with cloud-based analytics solutions including Azure Synapse Analytics, ADLS, ADF, Databricks, Power BI, and Azure Analysis Services
- Exhibit strong analytical capabilities with experience handling unstructured datasets
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of DevOps processes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
- Possess knowledge of SAP BW/BO, Tableau, Power BI, and Scala as an added advantage
- Hold Azure platform toolset certifications as a beneficial qualification