Data Architect
Role Overview
Lead design, implementation, and governance of enterprise data platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
Drive data modernization and scalable analytics supporting business intelligence, AI/ML, and digital transformation.
Key Skills for This Role
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Position summary
Lead design, implementation, and governance of enterprise data platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
Drive data modernization and scalable analytics supporting business intelligence, AI/ML, and digital transformation.
Location and duration
- The description lists Dubai, UAE as the location.
- The engagement is described as one year, extendable.
- Candidates currently working in the UAE will be considered.
Employment
- The description states full-time employment.
Education and experience
- Bachelor's degree minimum.
- 10+ years in data architecture, data warehousing, or enterprise data management.
Architecture and platforms
- Define enterprise data architecture standards and roadmaps; design scalable platforms for reporting, analytics, BI, and AI.
- Develop enterprise data models and govern architecture.
- Lead EDW, Data Lake, and Lakehouse initiatives; define integration, modeling, and analytics strategies.
- Design dimensional models, semantic layers, and reporting architectures.
- Design hybrid cloud/on-premises architectures and migration strategies from legacy platforms.
- Architect ingestion, integration, and real-time analytics solutions.
Governance and leadership
- Establish governance and stewardship frameworks for classification, metadata, retention, lineage, quality, and sensitive-data controls.
- Support a single source of truth through data quality and master data management.
- Translate business and technology needs into architecture; lead reviews, workshops, and governance forums.
- Provide architectural leadership to delivery teams and mentor data engineers, analysts, and junior architects.
Required expertise
- Enterprise-scale data warehouse, Data Lake, and Lakehouse design; enterprise data architecture, data modeling, and governance.
- Azure and hybrid data platforms, including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, and Azure SQL.
- Data integration, ETL/ELT, CDC, and SQL platforms such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
- Enterprise reporting, analytics, BI, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
Preferred expertise
- Data cataloging, lineage, MDM, retention, lifecycle management, streaming, and real-time analytics.
- API-led integration, privacy and protection controls, and sovereign cloud or data residency.
- Government, telecom, transportation, banking, or large-enterprise programs; AI/ML, Generative AI, and Data Mesh.
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