Job summary
Robusta is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in Jeddah to design and deliver an enterprise Data Lakehouse for a large digital transformation. The role focuses on building ingestion pipelines, ensuring data quality, security and operational readiness for AI and knowledge-graph use cases.
Key responsibilities
- Design and implement an enterprise-grade Data Lakehouse using medallion architecture
- Build automated batch and streaming ingestion frameworks for structured and unstructured data
- Implement data quality checks and end-to-end lineage tracking
- Optimize data workflows for performance, scalability and cost
- Monitor systems and respond to high-severity incidents
- Ensure security and compliance with NCA and NDMO standards
- Design RBAC/ABAC and integrate with enterprise identity providers
- Lead knowledge transfer, runbooks, pair-programming and failure simulations
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- 5+ years in Data Engineering, distributed systems or Big Data architecture
- 2+ years leading Data Lakehouse or cloud data platform implementations
- Hands-on experience with Spark, Kafka or distributed processing engines
- Familiarity with open table formats like Delta Lake or Iceberg
- Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration (Airflow, dbt)
- Experience deploying data solutions in Saudi cloud regions (OCI/GCP preferred)
- Knowledge of network security, key management and IAM
Skills
PythonJavaScalaApache SparkKafkaDelta LakeApache IcebergAirflowdbtOCI/GCP
Source: Workable. Last checked as open: 14 Nov 2026. You apply directly with the employer.
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