PetroApp

Lead Data Engineer

PetroApp

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cairo • Egypt

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudETLPythonSQL

About the role

  • Define and own PetroApp’s data strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
  • Build and scale the company’s data foundation, including ingestion, transformation, modeling, warehousing, and self-service analytics.
  • Create a single source of truth for key business and product metrics.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to improve instrumentation, event tracking, experimentation, and measurement.
  • Partner with Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Leadership to deliver actionable insights and decision-ready dashboards.
  • Design KPI frameworks for areas such as customer growth, retention, transaction performance, service adoption, operational efficiency, fraud/leakage, and profitability.
  • Build dashboards, reporting layers, and analytical models that support both day-to-day execution and executive decision-making.
  • Establish strong data governance practices, including data quality checks, lineage, documentation, definitions, access controls, and privacy standards.
  • Identify and prioritize high-value use cases for advanced analytics, forecasting, anomaly detection, and automation.
  • Lead root-cause analysis on business or operational issues and convert findings into measurable actions.
  • Hire, mentor, and grow a lean, high-performing data team over time.
  • Act as the internal champion for a strong data culture across PetroApp.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience across data analytics, business intelligence, analytics engineering, data engineering, or related fields.
  • 2+ years leading major data initiatives, squads, or teams.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in SQL and Python.
  • Experience with modern cloud data stacks and tools such as data warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration tools, transformation frameworks, and BI platforms.
  • Strong experience designing dashboards and reporting for business and executive stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to define KPIs, create semantic consistency, and translate ambiguous business questions into structured analysis.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, pipeline design, and analytics best practices.
  • Experience working in high-growth environments with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong ownership mindset and willingness to operate hands-on.
Benefits
  • You will own and shape the security function in a high-impact, hands-on lead role.
  • You’ll work at the intersection of security, reliability, and platform engineering, directly influencing how PetroApp scales.
  • Opportunity to work with a modern tech stack and a team that values pragmatism, automation, and continuous improvement.
  • A culture that cares about doing the right thing for customers and partners, with leadership support for investing in security and reliability.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythondata modelingpipeline designanalytics best practicesKPI frameworksdata transformationdata warehousingself-service analyticsroot-cause analysis
Soft Skills
communication skillsinfluenceownership mindsetmentoringleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingdecision-makinganalytical thinkingcross-functional teamwork