Data And Digital Manager

Contract Type: Permanent contract

Strategic

• Define and implement strategies for company-wide digital solutions and data utilisation aligned with organisational objectives.
• Ensure alignment between application development, digital tools, data outputs, electronics repair capabilities, and IoT initiatives.
• Translate business and operational needs into structured digital and data use cases, guiding development priorities.
• Support proof-of-concept initiatives related to digitalisation, data-driven insights, and IoT solutions, ensuring controlled transition to operational use.

Financial

• Manage budgets related to applications development, data platforms, electronics repair, and IoT activities, ensuring value for money and cost control.
• Mitigate financial risks related to electronics obsolescence, proprietary software dependency, and unsupported hardware or applications.
• Optimise costs through in-house repair, alternative sourcing, reuse of electronics, and scalable digital solutions

Stakeholder / Customer

• Act as the primary engineering interface for data, applications, electronics repair, and IoT matters with internal departments.
• Coordinate with OEMs, system suppliers, and technology partners on application support, data interfaces, electronics repairs, and monitoring solutions.
• Support regulatory bodies and clients on compliance matters related to electronic systems, data integrity, and digital tools used in maintenance and operations.

Operational

• Oversee the electronics repair workshop, ensuring safe, timely, and traceable repair of electronic components and modules.
• Manage the development, maintenance, and support of engineering and maintenance applications.
• Govern data acquisition, storage, quality, and interpretation from operational systems and IoT devices.
• Ensure standards for testing, validation, documentation, and configuration control of applications, electronics, and IoT solutions.
• Monitor KPIs across data availability, application performance, repair turnaround time, repair success rate, and system reliability.

Capability/People

• Oversee the electronics repair workshop, ensuring safe, timely, and traceable repair of electronic components and modules.
• Manage the development, maintenance, and support of engineering and maintenance applications.
• Govern data acquisition, storage, quality, and interpretation from operational systems and IoT devices.
• Ensure standards for testing, validation, documentation, and configuration control of applications, electronics, and IoT solutions.
• Monitor KPIs across data availability, application performance, repair turnaround time, repair success rate, and system reliability.

Dimensions

• Leadership of multiple technical disciplines spanning software, data, electronics repair, and embedded/IoT systems.
• Responsibility for systems that directly impact asset performance, maintenance effectiveness, and operational reliability.

Minimum Quaifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Master’s degree in systems engineering, Embedded Systems, Data Engineering, Digital Engineering, or related field

Experience

• Minimum 8–10 years’ experience in electronics, digital systems, applications, or data engineering within an industrial or regulated environment
• Proven managerial experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams
• Demonstrated responsibility for electronics repair, application lifecycle management, data systems, or IoT-based solutions.
• Experience within railway, transport, utilities, or other safety-critical regulated industries
• Exposure to in-house electronics repair workshops and obsolescence management
• Experience delivering condition monitoring, data-driven maintenance, or engineering applications.

Skills / Training

• Strong understanding of data systems, engineering applications, embedded electronics, and IoT concepts
• Ability to manage system lifecycle, configuration control, and technical documentation
• Strong stakeholder management, planning, and decision-making skills
• Fluent in English
• Knowledge of condition monitoring, data analytics, and remote diagnostics
• Familiarity with cybersecurity principles for industrial and engineering systems
• Experience with prototyping, testing, or validation of electronic or digital solutions
• Knowledge of Arabic is an advantage

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