About the job
PetroApp is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Cairo to shape and advance the company’s data capabilities. This senior role influences PetroApp’s data strategy, working across analytics, business intelligence, engineering, governance, and advanced analytics. The Lead Data Engineer partners closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Finance, and Leadership to position data as a strategic asset for the company.
This position focuses on building a solid data foundation, establishing KPIs, and enabling data-driven decisions. Key applications include transaction analytics, customer growth, fraud detection, operational improvements, and unit economics.
Main Responsibilities
- Define and guide PetroApp’s data strategy, roadmap, and operational approach.
- Develop and scale data infrastructure for ingestion, transformation, modeling, warehousing, and self-service analytics.
- Establish a single source of truth for essential business and product metrics.
- Work with Product and Engineering to improve instrumentation, event tracking, experimentation, and measurement.
- Partner with Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Leadership to deliver actionable insights and clear dashboards.
- Design KPI frameworks covering customer growth, retention, transaction performance, service adoption, operational efficiency, fraud prevention, and profitability.
- Build dashboards, reporting layers, and analytical models that support daily operations and long-term strategy.
- Implement data governance practices, including quality checks, lineage tracking, documentation, access controls, and privacy compliance.
- Identify and prioritize advanced analytics use cases such as forecasting, anomaly detection, and process automation.
- Conduct root-cause analysis on business or operational challenges and translate findings into practical strategies.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing data team over time.
- Champion a strong data culture throughout PetroApp.
