Senior Data Engineer

1 week ago

United Arab Emirates Dubai Nova Vet Family Full time

Job Description About Nova Vet Family Nova Vet Family is a growing veterinary technology scale-up, discovering and building digital tools that support clinical excellence and operational performance in veterinary practices. We are internalising our data platform as a critical next step in our growth. About the Role We are hiring a Senior Data Engineer to lead the migration of our core PostgreSQL database from an external vendor into our own AWS EU infrastructure, and to establish the foundations of our in-house data platform. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role and our first in-house data hire. It is explicitly designed as a stepping stone into a future data leadership position once the technical foundations are in place. You will work closely day-to-day with product leadership and report into senior management. Key Responsibilities - Own and execute a zero-downtime PostgreSQL migration end-to-end from an external vendor to AWS, with comprehensive data validation and rollback strategies (target delivery: 36 months) - Design and operate production-grade AWS infrastructure (RDS PostgreSQL, S3, IAM, monitoring and alerting) with security and reliability built in from day one - Build and maintain reliable data ingestion pipelines using Python and SQL - Implement data quality checks, automated monitoring, and basic lineage tracking - Design backup and recovery strategies, including restore testing, and maintain clear operational runbooks - Optimise database performance and AWS costs without compromising reliability - Establish foundational data governance practices suitable for sensitive/clinical data, with strong GDPR awareness and EU data residency considerations - As the first data engineer and future Dead Lead, set standards and best practices that will scale Required Qualifications - 35+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience, including query optimisation, backup/restore, and performance tuning - Strong experience with AWS core services, especially RDS, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch - Solid Python and SQL skills - Experience working in GDPR-aware environments - Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred) - Comfortable documenting and tracking technical decisions (Confluence, Jira) - Comfortable communicating and working with non-technical stakeholders and external vendors Strongly Preferred - Experience with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) or change data capture tools (Debezium) - DevOps/SRE background with focus on observability and reliability engineering - Experience with healthcare or clinical data - Data governance or data stewardship experience What We Offer - High-ownership, high-impact role in a growing scale-up in an exciting and fast-changing market. Work on critical infrastructure that powers veterinary healthcare technology. You'll have autonomy to make architectural decisions, work with modern cloud-native tools, and directly impact system reliability and performance. - Autonomy to shape core data infrastructure - Clear progression into data leadership - Competitive compensation and benefits (shared during process) Interview Process Shortlisted candidates will be asked to walk through practical technical scenarios similar to the challenges of this role.

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