Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow\'s possible.

Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro, the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to 250,000 transactions per day. We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions, cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabi\xe2\x80\x99s airport.

JOB OBJECTIVE

As a member of the Data Delivery Service at IDS, you will be actively supporting Data/ BI Delivery as a Lead Data Engineer across Squads.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Data as a Product - Delivery & Community of Practice

• Participate in the ETL Pipelines design for each squad
• Define & Implement ETL Pipelines Development best practices
• Define & Implement DataWarehouse performance Optimization practices
• Define & Implement Cube performance Optimization practices
• Define & Implement best of breed Data Analytics & BI Practices
• Implement tools & practices to empower data engineers across Squads
• Mentor Data Engineers to follow best practices
• Conduct code reviews
• Support the Data Squads in the day to day Troubleshooting , Problem Solving and continuous Learning
• Ensure each Squad has all the good level of technical support & decision making to meet the Delivery targets
• Ensure each Squad is up to date & implements the patterns defined by the Data Architects
• Ensure each Squad is implementing incremental delivery patterns
• Ensure each Squad is implementing test driven Pipelines development
• Design & Implement pipelines monitoring & Orchestration for each Squad
• Design and develop reusable components and frameworks for ingestion, cleansing, data quality, model building and execution
• Ensure each Squad is adopting CI/CD for Data Products Delivery
• Ensure each Squad is adoption version control
• On-board each new Squad to setup tools, access environments
• Facilitate the Data Community of Practice to foster knowledge sharing across Squad members
• Support the Data Engineers learning plan and skills ramp up strategy

Our current & future Data Stack

• Talend
• SSAS

Power BI

Ms SQL Server

MinIO

Kafka * Trino

• ELK

Azure Data Factory * SSIS

• BigQuery (Future)

QUALIFICATION, CERTIFICATION & EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Who you are:

• As a data expert you have a solid technical background and experience in data-intensive systems (

10 years) * Experience in a multinational Company with complex organizational ecosystem. Working in the cloud with micro-services would certainly be a plus. You already have a significant experience as a technical lead or lead Data Engineer

• Experience working with large amount of data, Big Data processing \xe2\x80\x93 batch and streaming Kafka, Flink, &Talend
• Completely Comfortable Working in a highly sensitive On-Prem data environment, where security constraints are part of the adventure
• You have deep knowledge and experience in databases, DataMarts, Data Modelling, Data Governance, Data Security, BI tools, ETL Solutions, Data Science, DataOps, MLOps
• You know how to work with data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, architects, product owners, top management

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Team work and willing to perform trough cooperation
• Strong attention to details
• Willingness for change and solving problem
• Be passionate about digital transformation
• Strong analytical mindset
• Data oriented
• Right mindset: Autonomous and know where and when to take decisions taking into account the constraints

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!

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