Manager Data Engineering (TPA)

About the Role

Bupa Arabia is seeking a Manager - Data Engineering (TPA) to join their team in Jeddah. This full-time role is crucial for ensuring the organization has reliable, well-governed, and analytics-ready data through the development and maintenance of robust data pipelines and models. The position focuses on making trusted data securely and cost-effectively available to support enterprise reporting, business intelligence, and data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Build reusable, parameterized mappings and task flows in Informatica IDMC to standardize data ingestion.
• Implement change data capture (CDC), idempotent loads, schema evolution, and data-quality gates.
• Optimize Big Query loads using partitioning, clustering, and appropriate load-versus-stream approaches.
• Set up version control and CI/CD pipelines for data engineering assets.

Data Mapping and Transformation

• Profile source systems and define field-level mappings and transformation rules.
• Specify business logic, including joins, lookups, and derivations.
• Define data-quality rules, exception handling, and reject criteria.

Orchestration and Reliability Engineering

• Parameterize task flows and configure schedules and dependencies.
• Implement retries, backoff, and checkpointing to ensure reliable processing.
• Integrate monitoring and alerting through the Ops console and ChatOps.

Data Security and Architecture

• Define least-privilege IAM roles and service accounts for data access.
• Apply dataset, table, row, and column-level security and data masking.
• Enable audit logging and retention policies, and classify PHI/PII data.
• Implement Medallion Architecture across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.
• Develop scalable, curated data models for analytical and reporting needs.
• Define data quality, lineage, and governance standards for curated data.
• Collaborate with business and analytics teams to create trusted datasets.

Performance and Cost Optimization

• Track data freshness, job health, volumes, and anomalies.
• Monitor SLAs across job duration, errors, cost per TB, and slot usage.
• Tune BigQuery performance through query optimization and resource management.
• Optimize cost through storage lifecycle management, query tuning, and caching.

Experience Required

Candidates should possess 2-5 years of relevant experience in data engineering.