Chalhoub Group Data Engineering Manager

About Chalhoub Group

Founded in 1955 by Michel and Widad Chalhoub, Chalhoub Group has grown into a leading partner for luxury across the Middle East. Headquartered in Dubai, the family-owned group brings together international maisons and homegrown concepts across fashion, beauty and lifestyle, combining regional expertise with retail and distribution capabilities. As an employer, it offers career opportunities spanning client experience, brand management, merchandising, logistics and digital innovation. Its multicultural environment connects employees with the evolving expectations of luxury consumers, while its emphasis on learning, entrepreneurship and sustainability provides a distinctive setting for professionals seeking to shape the region’s luxury landscape.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering across data platform engineering, data pipelines and processing, data operations, BI and reporting, and data quality engineering, delivering reliable cloud data infrastructure and trustworthy analytics.
• Own platform engineering for the Google BigQuery cloud data platform, including storage, compute, and data access layers on GCP.
• Build robust ETL/ELT ingestion pipelines using Python, Apache Airflow, dbt, and Airbyte, and manage batch and streaming processing from source systems into the data warehouse.
• Oversee data operations, including pipeline monitoring, job orchestration and scheduling, incident resolution, and the reliability and uptime of data ingestion (DataOps).
• Develop semantic layers with Looker and LookML, reporting models, and dashboards using Power BI and SQL to deliver actionable business intelligence.
• Implement automated data testing, data validation, anomaly detection, and cleansing logic to ensure accuracy and data integrity.
• Lead engineering practices, capability and team development, and continuous improvement across the data engineering team.
• Plan, design, execute, and document data validation and automated data testing across integrated data systems for the assigned scope, remaining hands-on.
• Use Claude Code for AI-assisted development to accelerate pipeline and query development while maintaining quality.

Qualifications

• 10 years of data engineering experience, including experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Strong expertise in Google BigQuery, cloud data warehousing, data access control, and GCP.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT using Python, Apache Airflow, dbt, and Airbyte; batch and streaming processing; and DataOps, including pipeline monitoring, job orchestration, and incident resolution.
• Proficiency in BI and reporting using Looker, LookML, Power BI, SQL, and dashboard design, as well as data quality engineering, including data validation, automated data testing, and anomaly detection.
• Familiarity with Claude Code for AI-assisted development.

Skills

Experience

10 years of data engineering experience, including experience leading or mentoring engineers.

Benefits

Health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies, exclusive employee discounts, learning and development opportunities, and exposure to different assignments within the role or through internal mobility.

Culture

Chalhoub Group combines its heritage as a family-owned business with the dynamism of the Middle East’s luxury sector, fostering a multicultural workplace rooted in collaboration and long-term relationships. Its culture emphasizes continuous learning, entrepreneurial initiative and excellence in customer experience, encouraging employees to develop their expertise while contributing to the evolution of luxury retail.

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