Senior Data Engineer (Adtech Focused)

We are looking for a Senior Data Enablement & AdTech Engineer to join a growing team focused on transforming large-scale telecom data into privacy-compliant, advertising-ready audience solutions.

This is a hands-on role sitting at the intersection of Data Engineering, Telecom, AdTech and Data Monetisation. You will work with complex telecom datasets to build audience attributes, improve data quality and enable activation across leading advertising and identity platforms.

What you’ll be doing

• Design and optimise scalable data pipelines using SQL, Python, Databricks, Cloudera, Apache NiFi, Teradata and related technologies.
• Build and validate audience attributes from telecom data, including CDRs, location, device, network and behavioural signals.
• Identify and resolve data coverage and quality gaps across source systems.
• Transform telecom data into privacy-compliant audience segments for advertising and monetisation.
• Support audience onboarding, identity matching and activation across CDPs, DSPs, SSPs and publisher ecosystems.
• Work with identity and onboarding partners such as LiveRamp, Novatiq and similar platforms.
• Develop data models, ETL/ELT processes and analytical workflows.
• Support audience segmentation, predictive modelling and advanced analytics.
• Monitor data quality, lineage, governance and platform performance.
• Work closely with product, commercial, engineering and external partner teams to deliver new data capabilities.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years’ experience in data engineering, telecom analytics, AdTech or data monetisation.
• Strong hands-on SQL and Python skills.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms such as Cloudera, Databricks, Apache NiFi, Teradata or Hadoop.
• Strong experience designing and managing ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration workflows.
• Good understanding of telecom data, including CDRs, network events, location intelligence and subscriber data.
• Practical understanding of the AdTech ecosystem, including CDPs, DSPs, DMPs, identity solutions and audience activation.
• Understanding of data privacy and governance, including UAE PDPL and/or GDPR.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Please note, this is a 1 year fixed term contract with highly likelihood of renewal.

Experience working directly with advertisers, media agencies or AdTech platforms would also be highly valuable.

Why this opportunity?

You’ll play a key role in building and scaling a telecom data monetisation and advertising platform, turning unique first-party data into products that can deliver real commercial value for advertisers and partners.