AI Data Engineer

Full time · on site in Dubai · 12-month contract · immediate start

The data engineer connects the client's systems and documents to the AI solutions: reliable pipelines, clean and governed data, and the integrations that feed reporting and other platforms.

What you will do

• Build ingestion pipelines from the client's systems, document stores and forms into a governed data platform.
• Model, clean and quality-check data (customer records, applications, requests, invoices, operational statistics).
• Set up data governance: classification, lineage, access control and retention, in line with UAE data-protection rules.
• Build integrations and data feeds to other platforms through APIs, including third-party platforms where required.
• Document pipelines and train the client's staff to run them.

Must have

• Strong SQL and Python; hands-on with Azure data services (Data Factory, Synapse or Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, Data Lake).
• Data quality and governance practice (Microsoft Purview or similar).
• Must already be present in the UAE and available to start immediately (with 5 days notice).

Nice to have

• Microsoft certification DP-203 or DP-600 (Fabric).
• Experience with large-scale enterprise or energy-sector data.