Data Engineering Jobs in United Arab Emirates
There are 349 open Data Engineering jobs in United Arab Emirates on freehire right now. 135 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are data-pipelines, sql and analytics.
Most requested skills
- data-pipelines 64%
- sql 63%
- analytics 60%
- data-engineering 56%
- python 55%
- data-quality 50%
- etl 49%
- cloud 49%
How the work is done
- Onsite 14 · 4%
- Hybrid 10 · 3%
- Remote 6 · 2%
Visa sponsorship offered in 82% of the 11 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 99
- Lead 29
- Junior 13
- Intern 4
- C-level 2
- Middle 1
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 5
- 501-1000 employees 2
- 201-500 employees 1
Data Engineer | IT Excellence | Dubai, UAE
IT Excellence seeks a Data Engineer in Dubai to design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and cloud data infrastructure supporting Data Science, GenAI, and enterprise reporting. Core stack: Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, PySpark/Scala, SQL, and Airflow on Kubernetes.
Data Engineering Manager
Builds and leads DZ's data team in Dubai, owning the data platform end to end — ingestion, warehouse modelling, orchestration and a semantic layer — to deliver trusted, self-serve metrics across digital goods, ticketing, travel and trading verticals. Hands-on with SQL, Python, TypeScript, Go, Postgres and AWS.
Informatica Data Governance Engineer – Onsite Abu Dhabi
An experienced data engineer (8+ years) working onsite in Abu Dhabi to configure Informatica's governance stack — Axon, EDC, and IDQ — building metadata and lineage and driving data-quality and policy compliance across enterprise data assets with architects, compliance officers, and business stakeholders.
Data Engineer
Deeplight AI is hiring a Data Engineer in Dubai to design lakehouse architectures (Databricks, Delta Lake) and build batch/real-time ETL pipelines on AWS for banking-sector clients, plus support MLOps and data governance. Core stack: AWS (S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift), PySpark, Kafka, Python, SQL, Terraform, Docker/EKS.
Data Engineer – Informatica Data Governance & Data Quality | IDC Technologies | Abu Dhabi, UAE
IDC Technologies seeks an experienced Data Engineer (8+ years) onsite in Abu Dhabi to implement enterprise data governance and data quality using Informatica Axon, Enterprise Data Catalog, and IDQ — administering governance workflows, building data lineage pipelines, and automating profiling, monitoring, and remediation.
Cloud Data Engineer — Databricks, Azure & Kafka
On-site data engineer at Dicetek in Abu Dhabi designing, building, and scaling cloud data pipelines and warehouse architectures on Azure, using Databricks, PySpark, Python, SQL, DeltaLake, and Kafka for ETL/ELT and real-time streaming, while collaborating with data scientists to support AI/ML workloads.
AWS Data Engineer
A 6-month contract (view to extend) data engineering role in Abu Dhabi focused on building and optimizing scalable AWS-based data ingestion pipelines using Glue, PySpark, S3, Athena, and Lambda. The engineer implements CDC, full/delta and historical loading patterns, automates with Git and Terraform, and ensures pipelines meet data quality and contract standards.
Data Engineer | Dicetek | Abu Dhabi
Data Engineer at Dicetek in Abu Dhabi designing, building, and scaling cloud data pipelines and warehouse architectures on-site. Core stack: Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, DeltaLake, PySpark, Python, SQL, and Kafka, with CI/CD and MLOps practices supporting AI/ML and analytics workloads. Full-time permanent role.
AWS Data Engineer
6-month contract role (view to extend) in Abu Dhabi building and optimizing scalable AWS data ingestion pipelines — Glue, PySpark, S3, Athena, and Lambda — implementing CDC/batch loading patterns, Bronze-layer pipelines, and Terraform/Git automation for a banking/financial-services environment.
FinTech Data Engineer
A mid-to-senior data engineer (4-8 years) in Dubai building batch and real-time data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows for financial transaction, customer, and risk data. Core stack: Python, SQL, PySpark, and data warehousing, with Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, and Azure/AWS as preferred extras.
Big Data Engineer L2
Alef Education in Abu Dhabi is hiring a Big Data Engineer (L2) to design and build large-scale data ingestion, storage, and management solutions (RDBMS, NoSQL, log files, events), run robust batch data pipelines in production, and architect scalable, low-latency systems, using build tools like SBT, Gradle, or Maven, while mentoring developers and supporting integrations and on-call rotas.
AWS Data Engineer – Ingestion & Lakehouse (Contract)
Contract role for a Salt client in Abu Dhabi: build and optimize scalable AWS data ingestion pipelines, implement CDC and Bronze-layer ingests aligned to data quality standards, and develop PySpark ETL/ELT for a Lakehouse using Glue, S3, Athena, and Lambda. Banking or financial services exposure is a plus.
FinTech Data Engineer: Real-Time Pipelines & Data Quality
Tanqeeb is hiring a FinTech Data Engineer in Dubai to build batch and real-time data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows for financial transaction, customer, and risk data, with a focus on data quality, storage optimization, and governance. Core technologies are Python, SQL, and PySpark.
Survey Data Engineer: Marine Project Analytics & Dredging
Process hydrographic survey data for dredging tenders and projects at NMDC Dredging & Marine in Abu Dhabi — producing grid models, drawings, and volume calculations to support dredging and reclamation work, while designing work plans, ensuring QA/HSE compliance, and mentoring junior staff.
Data Engineer – AI NLP Pipelines (Dubai) | Flexible Hours
A Dubai-based data engineer builds and scales data pipelines that query multiple LLM APIs, modeling, storing and versioning data and developing NLP processing to ensure data quality for customer-facing product dashboards, working closely with the founding team to manage latency and costs.
Data Engineer
Founding data engineer at AYAN Labs (an AI brand-visibility startup in Dubai) who builds and owns the data layer: pipelines that query multiple LLM APIs at volume, modeling/storing structured and unstructured data, and text processing like entity extraction and source attribution. Core stack: Python, SQL, orchestrators (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect), cloud, Docker, PostgreSQL.
Planning/Data Engineer
A Planning/Data Engineer joins the Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) team in Abu Dhabi to support digital transformation of Oil & Gas EPC projects, building Power BI dashboards, KPI models, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data warehouses for project controls, reporting, and stakeholder decision-making.