Senior Data Quality Engineer

Job Purpose

The Chief Directorate Department at Emirates Airlines oversees strategic planning, operational excellence, and innovation across various divisions. It plays a key role in driving the airline's growth, enhancing customer experience, and ensuring seamless global operations.

As a Senior Data Quality & Automation Engineer you will be a fully participating member of a cross-functional team working autonomously on technology development and problem resolution in the Enterprise Data & Analytics space. The role involves hands‑on contributing to quality practices along with designing and implementing data quality and automation platforms. They will also provide support to technical analytics solutions and products that support Emirates Airlines and the Emirates Group businesses.

• Work closely with product owners, analysts, software engineers and architects to understand the technical landscape and context of deliveries to refine complex functional and non-functional requirements and translate it into fit for purpose acceptance tests.
• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors and select methods to validate and automate the solution.
• Build test strategies and test plans validating the core business problem and translating them into tests around code functionality, data quality, performance, and security.
• Build and support generating or mocking of test data for exploratory analysis and running tests.
• Design and build automated tests / jobs of moderate to high scope and complexity across all stages of the data pipeline while demonstrating good coding & design practices and adhering to published coding standards and guidelines.
• Build and enhance data quality rules and platforms for observability across the data pipeline.
• Debug complex issues, resolve blockers and follow design documents with minimal or no supervision.
• Conduct data analysis activities such as source system analysis, data modelling, data dictionary collection, data profiling and source-to-target mapping ensuring delivery on business needs.
• Support in updating data inventories and registries as required to keep metadata and data lineage up-to-date, following agreed Data Governance standards, guidelines and principles.

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• Experience 2+ years Data Engineering experience with focus on quality & automation.
• Minimum 2+ years of testing, automation and support experience in analytics applications such as Data Lake and Data Warehouse (preferably using the Big Data stack and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure).
• Seasoned in identifying quality issues across complex data pipelines running on big data technologies and defining rules for validating health of the data.
• Experienced in a wide variety of testing methods and tools covering functional, performance, security tests across individual jobs, pipelines and end to end across enterprise.
• Well versed in building automated checks running in a CI pipeline to validate the ETL / ELT jobs are performing as expected.
• Experience with batch and real‑time data ingestion/integration tools and technologies handling massive quantities of data (structured and unstructured).
• Exposed to data architecture concepts such as data modelling, Big Data storage, and dimensional modelling.
• Exposed to working with jobs in data pipelines and define metrics / measures to ensure correctness of the data.
• Programming (Python or Scala) and SQL querying skills is required.

• Ability to drive quality of data assets independently.
• Able to deliver solutions (and associated value) interactively.
• Strong ability to conduct data analysis (e.g. source system identification, data dictionary / metadata collection, data profiling, source-to-target mapping) is preferred.
• Operates with a “You Code It, You Own It” mindset (i.e. supports the products they build).
• Team player; able to collaborate with others to remove blockers,…