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AI Data Ops Engineer Jobs in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates at Faze 3 Consulting
Title: AI Data Ops Engineer
Company: Faze 3 Consulting
Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
AI Data Ops Engineer — Abu Dhabi, UAE
We're hiring an AI Data Ops Engineer for a leading Abu Dhabi-based holding group investing heavily in its data and AI capability. You'll engineer the pipelines that feed everyday AI assistants and enterprise AI products — and you'll be the technical authority reviewing and signing off vendor-delivered data architectures before they reach production. Reports to the AI Solutions Manager.
What you'll own:
- Engineer batch and stream pipelines using Fabric Data Pipelines / Azure Data Factory, Synapse, or Databricks.
- Implement data quality rules, schema validation, de-duplication, SCD, and reconciliation checks.
- Operationalize lineage, cataloging, and classifications with Microsoft Purview; enforce RBAC and access patterns.
- Automate CI/CD via Azure DevOps or GitHub with environment promotion, infrastructure-as-code (Bicep/Terraform), and secrets management via Key Vault.
- Build feature stores and model-serving data contracts in partnership with MLOps and AI engineering teams.
- Own reliability: alerts, runbooks, on-call rotation, and cost and performance optimization.
- Review and finalize vendor-delivered data pipelines and data architecture for AI projects; ensure compliance with client standards for security, performance, and reliability; approve production readiness.
- Collaborate with delivery partner squads on interface specifications, test data, and delivery checkpoints; support SIT/UAT and production cutover.
- Define and enforce Data Contracts and SLAs per priority dataset (schema, refresh frequency, quality thresholds, reconciliation checks, and consumer expectations).
- Own data incident management: classification, RCA, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring nonconformities.
- Formalize the handshake with AI/ML/DevOps engineers on feature and embedding pipelines, monitoring hooks, and release gates for data-dependent AI deployments.
What you bring:
- 6–8 years in data engineering with strong SQL and PySpark and cloud-native data services.
- Hands-on experience across the Azure data stack: Fabric/Synapse, Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Delta Lake/Parquet.
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
Core skills and tools required:
- Python and PySpark, SQL, Lakehouse patterns, medallion architecture.
- Microsoft Purview: catalog, lineage, classifications; data privacy controls and masking.
- CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub; IaC with Bicep or Terraform; Docker basics.
- Observability: Kusto/KQL, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics; performance tuning and FinOps.
- Production incident response and RCA discipline.
Required certifications:
- DP-700 (Fabric Data Engineer Associate) OR DP-203 (Azure Data Engineer Associate)
Desired certifications:
- Any recognized cloud fundamentals credential (AZ-900, DP-900, AWS Cloud Practitioner, or equivalent)
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time
Experience: 6-8 years
Salary Range: 15,000 – 23,000 (AED per month)
