Data Engineer – Remote Full Time NEW

We are looking for an experienced Remote Data Engineer to join a well- known Islamic Bank in Bahrain for 6 Month project to design, build, and optimize scalable data platforms supporting digital banking and AI-driven initiatives. The candidate will play a key role in developing data pipelines, managing large-scale data environments, and enabling advanced analytics and machine learning use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data pipelines for AI and banking initiatives
• Collaborate with data scientists to prepare and transform data for model training and analytics
• Develop and maintain data lakes and data warehouse solutions
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and security across platforms
• Integrate data from core banking systems, digital channels, and external sources
• Optimize data workflows for performance and cost efficiency
• Support real-time and batch data processing using modern frameworks
• Implement data governance policies and metadata management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 7–10 years of relevant experience
• Experience in the banking sector is preferred

Technical Skills & Expertise

• Data pipeline development
• SQL and Python programming
• Big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop)
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Data modeling and data warehousing concepts
• Structured and unstructured data processing
• Data governance, security, and compliance
• AI/ML pipelines and data preparation
• Data orchestration tools and frameworks

Certifications (Preferred)

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer or equivalent
• Databricks Certified Developer