Job description

Job Purpose

dnata is more than a global air and travel services provider. We connect people with possibilities and opportunities across 130+ airports in 34 countries through ground handling, cargo, travel, and catering & retail services. Our purpose is clear: to deliver on the promises our customers make. We are powered by a bold vision to be the world’s most admired air and travel services provider, which guides our strategy, culture, and every role across our teams. Our core values fuel everything we do: we are safe, we play to win, we respect everyone and work together as a team, and we are future thinking. At dnata, we foster diversity, nurture ambition, and celebrate achievement. If you're inspired by purpose and motivated to be part of a global team shaping the future of aviation and travel, we’d love to have you onboard.

The Senior Data Engineer is a fully-participating member of a cross-functional team working autonomously on technology development and problem resolution in the Enterprise Data & Analytics space. The role involves the design, development, testing, implementation, support and maintenance of technical data and analytic solutions and products that support Emirates Airlines and the Emirates Group businesses.

In this role, you will:

• Lead technical design and build for small to medium sized solutions in a team. Translate functional and non-functional data and analytics requirements into fit for purpose technical design. Ensure solution performance, business edge cases and security related issues are addressed while developing software.

• Debug issues of complexity, resolve blockers and follow design documents with minimal or no supervision.
• Complete data engineering coding tasks on problems of moderate to high scope and complexity. Demonstrate good coding principles. Conduct code review for peers. Ensure solutions adhere to published data privacy and cybersecurity principles.
• Operate with a data-driven mindset. Help translate data and analytics requirements into data solutions based on the approved technical designs. Assist with data analysis activities such as source system analysis, data modelling, data dictionary collection, data profiling and source-to-target mapping to ensure solutions deliver on business needs.
• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Work with senior and lead data engineers in the technical design process by contributing in the analysis of data application, data integration, large data storage or data pipeline requirements.
• Update data inventories and registries as required to keep metadata and data lineage up-to-date, following agreed Data Governance standards, guidelines and principles.
• Carry out unit testing independently. Troubleshoot issues, and fix defects that are of moderate to high complexity.
• Shadow senior and lead data engineers on design and architecture components, and collaborate with members of the cross-functional team to identify areas of inefficiency and propose solutions.
• Adhere to published coding standards, guidelines and best practices and contribute to Data Engineering Playbooks and other data technology blueprints.

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• Specialization or electives in a Data & Analytics field (e.g. Data Warehousing, Data Science, Business Intelligence) a nice-to-have
• Experience 2+ years Data Engineering (Fewer years experience will be considered for Masters degree holders)
• Minimum 2+ years of development, testing and support experience in the analytic applications such as Data Lake and Data Warehouse (preferably using the Big Data stack and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure)
• Experience with batch or real-time data ingestion; experience with coding pipelines that handle massive quantities of data (structured and unstructured), securely and in a timely fashion
• Understanding of data architecture concepts such as data modelling, Big Data storage, Lambda architecture, data vault and dimensional modelling nice-to-have
• Understanding on integration with source systems; able to load operational systems data into a single data platform using data integration tools
• Experience scheduling jobs that can be monitored efficiently and ensure data quality
• Ability to conduct unit testing
• Strong SQL querying skills required
• Airline industry experience a nice-to-have

• Knowledge and Skills:
  • Strong ability to conduct data analysis (e.g. source system identification, data dictionary / metadata collection, data profiling, source-to-target mapping) is preferred
  • Operates with a You Code It, You Own It mindset (i.e. supports the products they build)
  • Demonstrated problem-solver; able to design and document solutions independently
  • Team player; able to collaborate with others to remove blockers, solve complex design problems and debug/resolve issues
  • Able to deliver solutions (and associated value) interatively
  • Is accountable and displays positive attitude
  • Self-starter and has passion for exploring and learning new technologies, especially those in the Enterprise Data & Analytics space
• Technology Domain Key Technologies/Tools
  • Big Data : Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Hive, H-Base, Sqoop, Oozie, Apache Nifi, Airflow, HDFS, ADLS (Gen 2), Azure Data Factory (ADF), DataBricks, Kafka, Elasticsearch, AVRO / PARQUET file formats
  • Data Analysis, Modelling and Reporting :Snowflake, SQL, Data Vault 2.0, MicroStrategy, Power BI
  • Cloud Technologies : Microsoft Azure and Cloudera technology stacks
  • Integration and Messaging :Streaming (e.g. Spark Streaming), SnapLogic, TIBCO, Kafka,
  • CI/CD :GIT Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence
  • Automation : Java, Selenium, AppDynamics, HP Load Runner, Jmeter, Python, Automation Anywhere

Our services on the ground keep the world in the air. We’re one of the largest air services providers in the world, and you’ll find us in over 80 countries offering expertise in ground handling, cargo, travel and flight catering. We’re growing fast, and we’re looking for people with imagination and creativity to join our team of more than 40,000 people. We want potential stars to help us deliver on the promises our customers make.

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays worldwide.

Discover what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city by visiting the Dubai Lifestyle section on our career’s website: www.emirates.com/careers.