Senior Data Engineer

Description:

Hiring Alert — Senior Data Engineer — Karachi

Company: Sastaticket.pk
Position: Senior Data Engineer
Industry/Sector: Travel Technology / Data Engineering / Technology
Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Employment Type: Full-Time | On-Site
Experience Required: 5+ Years

What You'll Own:
• Lead migration from a legacy query platform to a modern lakehouse architecture.
• Build scalable ELT pipelines using PostgreSQL, S3, dbt, Apache Iceberg, and Athena.
• Design and operate a high-volume event tracking platform using ClickHouse.
• Build reliable, tested, and finance-grade data models and pipelines.
• Own data quality, monitoring, reliability, and cloud cost optimization.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Finance, Growth, and Operations teams to build trusted data products.

Candidate Requirements:
• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or a similar data platform role.
• Strong SQL and Python skills.
• Production experience with dbt or equivalent data transformation / warehouse technologies.
• Strong understanding of data modelling fundamentals.
• Experience with PostgreSQL/OLTP extraction, CDC, incremental loads, updates, and deletes.
• Working knowledge of AWS, including S3, IAM, and at least one of Athena, Glue, ECS, or Lambda.
• Strong engineering practices including Git, CI/CD, testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Proven experience owning a data system, migration, or platform end-to-end.

Nice to Have:
• ClickHouse or other OLAP technologies.
• Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
• Kafka/Pulsar and CDC tools such as Debezium or DMS.
• Power BI and high-volume event analytics experience.
• Cloud cost optimization experience.

Technology Stack:
• dbt
• Apache Iceberg
• Amazon S3
• Amazon Athena
• AWS Glue
• ClickHouse
• PostgreSQL
• Apache Pulsar
• Python
• ECS/EKS
• Power BI
• Grafana/Prometheus

What the Company Offers:
• Meaningful ownership and high-impact projects.
• Market-competitive salary.
• Medical coverage for employees and dependents.
• Gratuity and annual travel allowance.
• Learning and professional development opportunities.
• Exposure to senior leadership and key business decisions.
• Opportunity to grow into senior platform and data leadership roles.