Intern Data Engineer

About the role

Tabby builds financial products used by millions of users across the GCC, and data is central to product, risk, finance and operations. This internship is an engineering role with real responsibility, where interns join a production data team, work with live datasets and are expected to meet engineering standards from day one.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain analytical data models.
• Work with SQL‑based transformations and data pipelines.
• Contribute to data quality checks and validation logic.
• Help build and maintain data products used by business and engineering teams.
• Work with orchestration tools and scheduled data workflows.
• Participate in discussions about data modelling, metrics and definitions.
• Investigate data issues and help identify root causes.
• Improve the reliability and cost efficiency of data processing.

Required profile

• Strong fundamentals in SQL.
• Good working knowledge of Python for data processing.
• Understanding of relational data models and basic data‑modelling concepts.
• Ability to read, understand and modify existing data pipelines or models.
• Experience with Git and standard development workflows.
• Structured thinking and attention to data correctness.
• English sufficient for documentation and team communication.
• Saudi nationals only.

Required skills

• SQL
• Python
• Git
• dbt (or similar data‑transformation tool)
• Airflow (or similar orchestration tool)
• BigQuery (or similar cloud data warehouse)
• BI tools or data visualisation platforms
• Data modelling techniques (star schema, slowly changing dimensions)

What we offer

• Six‑month paid internship starting autumn 2026.
• Full integration into an engineering team.
• Distributed engineering team across multiple countries.
• Potential path to a junior data engineer or analytics engineer role after the internship (intent, not guaranteed).
• Internship designed for fast professional growth in data engineering.