Senior Data Engineer (GCP)

About the role

Coders Connect is partnering with a leading international gaming platform to recruit a Senior Data Engineer in Dubai. This is a hands-on role contributing to the modernization of the data platform and enabling real-time insights across analytics, product and engineering functions. You will work with the Lead Data Engineer to design and deliver scalable data pipelines and robust architectures, collaborating with BI, Product and Platform teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and optimize streaming and batch data pipelines, manage schema evolution and data contracts, and tune BigQuery performance
• Define scalable data storage and processing patterns and implement testing and monitoring frameworks
• Enforce data governance standards and maintain metadata lineage
• Deploy infrastructure as code with Terraform and contribute to CI/CD workflows and incident response
• Maintain high availability and performance of pipelines and mentor junior team members

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering
• Proven experience with GCP data tools (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub)
• Practical experience with dbt and Airflow/Cloud Composer
• Understanding of data modeling, incremental loading and performance optimization
• Familiarity with data security, IAM and cost control; preferred: streaming/CDC tools, Data Vault or lakehouse architecture, and prior experience in gaming, fintech or similar data-intensive industries
• Must reside in Dubai

Required skills

• SQL and Python
• GCP: BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub
• dbt, Airflow/Cloud Composer, Terraform

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid work model
• Modern tech stack with opportunities to experiment
• Collaborative, international team with a flat structure