Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 9 million customers. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of approximately USD 4 billion. We serve our customers and help them realize their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations. We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With over half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.
The Senior Data Engineer role will implement the design and build of the platform along with all associated components from inception to maturity of the running environment over time. The role will be responsible for driving change and delivering new technology into the Bank by onboarding customers and applications to the Platform via self-service and automation.
The engineer will work closely with other Platforms and Product teams in educating them on the new Platform, services and features to ensure any transition and consumption is optimal. Teams work using Agile + DevOps + Product Management methodologies, delivering work packages based on the priority in the backlog.
Key Responsibilities:
- Hands on Tier – 2 production experience with Cloudera:
o Installing and maintenance
o Enabling security requirements for CDP
o Optimizing cluster performance
o Working with data engineers to optimize Spark job performance
o Automation – Ansible, data/analytics jobs CI/CD
o Observability
- Installation, configuration and maintenance of the CDP latest version of CDP 7.1.9 or CDP latest version experience with Cloudera data services 1.5.4 and 1.5.5
- Trouble shooting the Spark job , Hive Jobs and Yarn jobs
- CDP Containerization with data services
- Experience in writing automation using Shell, Terraform, Groovy and Ansible
- Automated pipelines/workflows (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD etc.) for data projects. Python based preferred.
- Automating security/regulatory checks
- Automated patching
- Containerization – Podman, Docker, OCP, Container Management – Kubernetes/OpenShift , Linux OS & Networking basics , Source control (git)
- Agile engineering and practices
- Has developed synergies across services, optimizing re-use, promoting simplification and demonstrating speed-to-market benefits
- Commercial and business focused to improve IT services
- Trustful and pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Ability to adopt the Group’s values and drive adoption of the values across the team
- Delivery Experience
- Ability to work on projects from inception to delivery
- Decision making to decide on best solution based on cost, time and quality of options
- Cross skills in delivery but also operational support as per the new DevOps model
Implementing robust solutions to minimize operational effort
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Skills & Experience:
- At least 4 years production Hadoop experience
- 8+ years hands on Technology experience
- Experience with large and complex global enterprises defined by high availability, broad observability, and high level of reliability
- At least 1 project experience in Data Science project/products
- Excellent communication and articulation skills
- Technical/Functional:
- Hands on Tier – 2 production experience with Cloudera:
o Installing and maintenance
o Optimizing cluster performance
o Working with data engineers to optimize Spark job performance
o Automation – Ansible, data/analytics jobs CI/CD
o Observability
- Automated pipelines/workflows (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD etc.) for data projects. Python based preferred.
- Python programming experience
- Shell, Groovy scripting experience
- Automating security/regulatory checks
- Automated patching
- Containerization – Podman, Docker
- Container Management – Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Linux OS & Networking basics
- Source control (git)
- Agile engineering and practices
- Nice to have:
- Public cloud exposure
- Data Science projects/products
There’s never been a better time to join Emirates NBD.
We’re one of the region’s most recognizable brands. We’re banking innovation leaders. We’re growing across both the UAE and our global offices. We offer a huge range of professional development opportunities to accelerate your career. It also goes without saying that we provide extremely competitive rewards, benefits and perks too, like our flexible work policy so you can work from home whenever it suits. At ENBD, we encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for positions that match their skills and capabilities.
