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DZ operates across several verticals and markets: digital goods, ticketing, travel and trading, in Iraq, the UAE and KSA. Each has grown its own reporting, its own metric definitions and its own version of the numbers, so basic questions take days and the answers do not always agree. You will hire the team, own the data platform end to end, from ingestion through warehouse and modelling to the analytics layer on top, and make trusted data a capability the rest of the org can rely on rather than a queue it waits behind.\nWhat you'll do\nBuild and lead the data team: hire, mentor and grow data and analytics engineers, and set the bar for a function that every other team depends on daily.\nOwn the technical strategy and architecture for the data platform: ingestion from operational systems and third parties, warehouse and modelling layer, orchestration, and the semantic layer that keeps metrics consistent across verticals.\nEstablish a single source of truth for core business metrics, with definitions agreed with commercial, finance and product, and pipelines that make the numbers reproducible and trusted.\nDeliver self-serve analytics so most questions are answered without a ticket, and the team's time goes to platform work rather than ad hoc pulls.\nTreat data as a product and own its reliability: freshness SLAs, lineage, testing, and alerting that fires when something breaks upstream rather than when a stakeholder notices.\nPartner with security and legal on governance, access control, retention and the handling of PII (passport and telecom identifiers) across markets with different regulatory expectations.\nBuild the foundation the next stage depends on: event tracking standards, experimentation, and the data that data science, personalisation, fraud and risk will need.\nPartner with product and engineering teams so instrumentation and data contracts are designed into services rather than bolted on afterwards.\nRequirements\nWhat you'll bring\n8+ years in software or data engineering with 3+ years leading engineering teams, including hiring and growing engineers.\nDirect experience building and operating a production data platform: batch and streaming ingestion, warehouse modelling, orchestration, and the operational discipline to keep it reliable at scale.\nStrong hands-on technical judgment to lead design reviews and make build versus buy and cost tradeoffs on warehouse and tooling spend. Deep SQL and dimensional modelling, and comfortable in a Python, TypeScript, Go, Postgres and AWS environment.\nA track record of getting an organisation to agree on metric definitions, not just of shipping pipelines. 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