Senior Data Engineer (Data & AI)

Sifi

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help define and scale the foundation of SiFiu2019s data platform.

You will be part of the Data & AI team and serve as a key partner to Finance, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Compliance. Your primary responsibility will be to design and own our data platform, modeling standards, and AI-ready infrastructure, ensuring that metrics are accurate, scalable, and trusted across the organization.

This is a high-ownership role focused on building financial data infrastructure from first principles.

This role is based in Saudi Arabia (Relocation).

What You Will Own

Data Modeling and Standards

• Define and maintain scalable data models in SQL
• Establish structured warehouse layers and modeling best practices
• Own KPI definitions and ensure a single source of truth
• Ensure financial correctness and metric consistency

Warehouse Architecture

• Design and evolve our cloud data warehouse in BigQuery
• Own transformation workflows using dbt, SQLMesh, or similar tools
• Optimize performance, reliability, and cost
• Design and support production-grade AI/ML pipelines ensuring model performance, data integrity, and compliance.

Reliability and Governance

• Ensure data quality, integrity, and observability
• Implement access controls aligned with compliance requirements
• Build a scalable foundation ready for advanced analytics and AI

Cross-Functional Impact

• Translate business requirements into robust data systems
• Enable trusted reporting and BI across teams
• Support experimentation and AI-driven initiatives with well-structured datasets