Technology Engineer (UAE National)

COMPANY INTRODUCTION

Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 9 million customers. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the United Arab Emirates with a brand value of approximately USD 4 billion.

We serve our customers and help them realize their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.

We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With over half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.

In line with the UAE Government’s strategy in empowering and developing nationals, Emirates NBD is committed to welcoming the young generation into an innovative, modern and supportive work environment to contribute to the nation's success. We are looking to find the best UAEN talent to join our ENBD family.

JOB OVERVIEW

We are looking for a hands-on Technology Engineer to join our Group IT Technology Chapter and support the design, build, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise technology platforms. This role is ideal for an engineer with strong Cloudera CDP, automation, DevOps, containerization, and platform operations experience who enjoys working in complex, high-availability environments.

The successful candidate will work within a matrix structure, reporting into the VP Technology Chapter while being assigned to a platform squad for day-to-day delivery, backlog prioritization, and technical execution. You will help onboard customers and applications to modern platforms through self-service, automation, and close collaboration with platform, product, security, architecture, data, and agile teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Install, configure, maintain, and support Cloudera CDP platforms, including CDP 7.1.9 or later and Cloudera Data Services versions 1.5.4 and 1.5.5.
• Provide hands-on Tier 2 production support for Cloudera environments, including platform maintenance, security enablement, observability, and performance optimization.
• Troubleshoot Spark, Hive, and YARN jobs, working closely with data engineering teams to improve Spark job performance.
• Drive automation across platform operations, including security and regulatory checks, automated patching, infrastructure workflows, and CI/CD pipelines for data and analytics projects.
• Develop automation using Shell, Terraform, Groovy, Ansible, and preferably Python-based workflows.
• Support containerization and container management using Podman, Docker, OpenShift, and Kubernetes.
• Contribute to product roadmaps, platform backlog execution, technology stack reduction, and total cost of ownership improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across technical platforms, security, architecture, data, agile, infrastructure, application, and product teams.
• Apply Agile, DevOps, and product management practices to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure technology services.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.

Key Technologies

• Cloudera CDP, Cloudera Data Services, Spark, Hive, YARN, Ansible, Terraform, Shell scripting, Groovy, Python, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Git, CI/CD, observability, automation, Agile, and DevOps.