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
Banking Data Engineer – Warehousing, Redshift & AI-ready
Contract (1-year, extendable) Data Engineer in Abu Dhabi building banking data products — data marts, data modelling and customer 360 views — for retail, SME and corporate banking analytics, migrating to Amazon Redshift and aligning with ML/AI use cases. Core stack: SQL, Python, Redshift.
Data Engineer (EMIRATI)
Salt is hiring a Data Engineer (Emirati nationals) in the UAE to keep data flows reliable, integrate new sources, build automated ETL/ELT pipelines, and ensure data quality using SQL, Python, APIs, and database connectivity.
Data Engineer — AI & Analytics Platform Builder
CNTXT in Abu Dhabi is hiring a Data Engineer to build and maintain the data infrastructure powering its analytics, AI, and ML products — developing scalable data pipelines, integrating multiple data sources, ensuring data quality, and implementing CI/CD for data workflows with engineers, data scientists, and product managers.
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer in Abu Dhabi who designs and builds the foundational data layer of a growing data platform: canonical data models, ETL/ELT pipelines, catalogue and metadata structures, and trusted layers for BI/analytics. Core focus on SQL, data architecture, and cloud data warehouses/lakehouses.
Data Engineer
Data engineer in Abu Dhabi who designs, builds, and maintains scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehouses/lakes, and batch and real-time processing that power analytics, AI, and ML products. Core stack: Python, SQL, Spark, Airflow, AWS/Azure/GCP, Snowflake/BigQuery, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Lead Data Engineer
Lead Data Engineer for ALEC Holdings, a major UAE construction group: own the enterprise data platform (warehouse, lake, medallion layers), build ETL/ELT pipelines with Python, PySpark and SQL on AWS/Azure, enforce data governance with tools like Microsoft Purview, deliver Power BI reporting, and mentor the data engineering team.
Banking Test Data Engineer — Automation & API Testing
Test data engineer at Virtusa in Dubai who designs, builds, and maintains test data generation and mocking frameworks for digital banking platforms, automating middleware ESB and API test data to support SIT, UAT, and release testing for banking clients in the region.
Data Engineer
Data Engineer at Inception42 (a G42 company) in Abu Dhabi who builds scalable data pipelines and enterprise AI solutions day to day — developing AI agents, RAG systems, and ETL workflows with Azure, Azure Databricks, OpenAI, LangChain, Python, and PySpark.
Senior Data Engineer
Role Purpose The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for helping establish and operate the organization’s data platform, turning business information into reliable, governed, and reusable data. This is a hands-on role…
Senior Data Engineer – Cloud Data Platforms & Lakehouse
Senior data engineer at a Data & AI consultancy (AgentixLake GmbH) designing, building and operating cloud data platforms and lakehouses for clients in the DACH and Gulf regions. Day to day: batch/streaming pipelines, data modelling and lakehouse architecture on AWS, Snowflake, Databricks or GCP, with dbt, Airflow/Dagster, IaC and CI/CD.
Associate Data Engineer
As Associate Data Engineer you will be designing building new data pipelines and creating new once for Al Tayer omni channel brands. This involves ingestion from sources like salesforce marketing cloud , Google…
Senior Data Engineer Pyspark with Data modelling
We are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer with deep expertise in PySpark and the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) to join our data engineering team. As a Data Engineer you will be responsible for designing developing…
Data Platform Engineer
A Lakehouse Platform Engineer in Abu Dhabi who manages and optimizes the AWS data platform stack (S3, Glue, Iceberg, OpenMetadata, Soda Core), enabling self-service for data teams, building disaster recovery, monitoring/alerting, and executing migration and decommissioning work with Terraform-based automation.
Data Engineer, Real Estate Intelligence
Data engineer at Smart Bricks, an applied AI lab for real estate, building pipelines that ingest and normalise global real estate data (transactions, properties, leases, ownership) into structured intelligence layers that AI agents can reason over. Core work: Python, SQL, large-scale ETL/ELT, entity resolution, and data quality/provenance systems.
Data Engineer
AWS Glue Data Engineer on a Data Factory Squad, based between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, builds Bronze-layer ingestion pipelines to migrate source systems into a Lakehouse — writing PySpark/Glue jobs (CDC, full, delta, snapshot loads), tuning DPU/partitioning, and automating deployment via Git and Terraform.
BIM Data Engineer: APS & Revit Model Extraction
Remote BIM data-engineering role extracting Revit and IFC model data via Autodesk Platform Services (APS), transforming it into analytics-ready formats, and running geometry/IFC quality checks to support downstream analytics and AI agents, in collaboration with AEC teams.
Global Real Estate Data Engineer
Data engineer at Smart Bricks, an applied AI lab for real estate: builds global pipelines that ingest and normalize real estate data across countries, develops entity-resolution systems and data-quality controls, and creates structured data layers that AI agents can reason over using licensed, public, and proprietary datasets.
Data Engineer for AI, Analytics & Data Pipelines
Data Engineer at American University in the Emirates (Dubai) who designs and implements ETL/ELT data pipelines, prepares datasets for AI models, and builds Power BI/Tableau dashboards and scorecards for executive reporting, working with departments under data governance and compliance standards.
Data Engineer
Contract Data Engineer in Abu Dhabi building banking data marts, stored procedures, and customer 360 data models for analytics, ML, and AI use cases, while supporting a migration from Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Redshift. Requires strong SQL, Python, and mandatory banking domain experience.
AWS Glue Data Engineer — Lakehouse Ingestion
Venquis is hiring an AWS Glue Data Engineer for its Data Factory Squad in Abu Dhabi/Dubai to build scalable lakehouse ingestion pipelines with AWS Glue and PySpark, implementing CDC and full/delta loads, optimizing performance, and automating deployments with Git and Terraform.