Manager - Data Engineering (TPA)
Summary
Leads Bupa Arabia's data engineering function in Jeddah, building governed, analytics-ready pipelines and models in Informatica IDMC and Google BigQuery. Day to day: ingestion/CDC pipelines, Medallion-architecture data modeling, orchestration and monitoring, PHI/PII security and masking, plus BigQuery performance and cost tuning.
Role Purpose:
To ensure the organization has reliable, well-governed, and analytics-ready data by building and maintaining robust data pipelines and models. The role exists to make trusted data available securely and cost-effectively to support enterprise reporting, BI, and data-driven decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
1- Enterprise Data Ingestion and Data Engineering;
- 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 the appropriate load-versus-stream approach.
- Set up version control and CI/CD pipelines for data engineering assets.
2- Data Mapping & Transformation Design;
- 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.
3- Orchestration, Automation & 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.
4- Data Roles and Privacy management;
- 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.
5- Modern Data Architecture & Data Modelling;
- Implement Medallion Architecture across the 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.
6- Workload Monitoring, Performance & Cost Optimisation;
- 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 optimisation and resource management.
- Optimize cost through storage lifecycle management, query tuning, and caching.