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About the Role

HungerStation, part of the Delivery Hero Group, is seeking a Senior Data Engineer I to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position focuses on designing, building, and scaling the company's data platform and processing frameworks that support analytics, AI-driven applications, and business intelligence across the organization. The role is central to the data ecosystem, emphasizing the scalability, reliability, and performance of data systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and extend scalable data platforms and architectures.
• Build and maintain high-performance data pipelines and data models using BigQuery.
• Optimize datasets and workloads for performance and cost efficiency.
• Develop analytics-ready data models, semantic layers, and governed metrics.
• Build backend services and APIs using Python or Java to support data applications.
• Contribute to AI-enabled data use cases, such as automated insights and conversational analytics.
• Improve system reliability by addressing technical debt and scaling challenges.
• Implement best practices across CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and deployment automation.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting the data platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality and engineering standards.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security standards.
• Improve monitoring frameworks and operational resilience of the data platform.
• Support initiatives to enhance data quality, reliability, and system stability.

Required Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in Data Engineering or similar roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong experience building scalable distributed data systems.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, with BigQuery being preferred.
• Proven experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and data modeling.
• Experience with modern data stack tools such as Airflow, dbt, and Looker.
• Strong SQL skills and an understanding of relational data systems.
• Experience with Python or Java for backend/data services.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code, with Terraform being preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD, testing, and monitoring practices.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Master’s degree or relevant certifications are considered a plus.
• Exposure to AI-driven data applications or LLM integrations is beneficial.