Data Engineering Director at rewaatech

Rewaa is on a mission to revolutionise retail! Our cutting-edge SaaS platform empowers retailers to move and grow faster. We provide innovative solutions for point-of-sale, inventory management, omnichannel integrations, tax and accounting, and reporting, all delivered on a single screen with our lightning-fast, robust hardware. With over 10,000+ customers and an ambitious trajectory toward global expansion, there's never been a better time to join Rewaa! We are seeking an exceptional Data Engineering Director to lead Rewaa's data organization through a transformative phase of growth and innovation. This is not a typical data leadership role; we need a true technical leader who can architect enterprise-scale systems, help to drive AI/ML innovation, and deliver products that fundamentally change how we operate. The ideal candidate is a proven technical leader who can architect enterprise-grade data systems from the ground up, translate complex analytics into revenue-driving products, work hands-on with teams to solve the most complicated problems, and inspire excellence in others.  Key Accountabilities • Define the data product vision, strategy, and long-term roadmap aligned with business objectives, anticipating needs 2-3 years ahead. • Own end-to-end data architecture and pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability at enterprise scale. • Design and oversee scalable, fault-tolerant data infrastructure, including distributed storage solutions, streaming architectures, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP). • Establish and enforce best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and data observability. • Evaluate and improve the technical quality of solutions, conducting architecture reviews and providing actionable guidance to teams. • Assess emerging technologies (real-time streaming, LLMs, vector databases, etc.) and make strategic build-vs-buy decisions. • Drive data governance, security, and compliance frameworks, ensuring data privacy and regulatory adherence. • Provide expert code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentor engineers on advanced topics (distributed systems, ML engineering, optimization). • Debug and resolve critical production issues, and identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in technical systems and team workflows, implementing automation and process improvements. • Build data quality frameworks, including automated validation, anomaly detection, and lineage tracking. • Establish incident response processes and conduct blameless post-mortems to drive continuous improvement. Requirements and Qualifications • 10+ years in data engineering, or data-focused product leadership, with 4+ years leading teams in senior/director+ roles at high-growth companies. • Data infrastructure and architecture (data warehousing, data lakes, lakehouses, streaming architectures like Kafka/Kinesis). • Advanced data modeling (dimensional, Data Vault, graph, event-driven). • Develop and manage ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration tools • Deploy and monitor ML and AI models in production at scale. • Optimize cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), including data services, serverless, and cost efficiency. • Write and optimize SQL, programming languages for data engineering, and distributed computing (Spark). • Implement modern data stack tools (Databricks, Fivetran, Airbyte, etc.). • Hands-on experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps/DataOps practices • Proven track record of building data products that delivered >$10M in value or transformed business operations Alert for Candidates Please be aware that Rewaa and its subsidiaries do not conduct interviews via email or text and will never request payment as a condition for applying for a position or receiving a job offer. 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