Data Architecture Section Head (UAE National)

Overview

About The Role

Responsibilities

• The role oversees the design, development, operation, and continuous improvement of data platforms, including data warehouses, data lakes, ETL/ELT processes, data catalogues, and data quality platforms.
• It also ensures effective data integration, automation, and exchange across the social sector to support analytics products, reporting, and priority data use cases.
• The role is also accountable for maintaining and monitoring data quality across datasets, systems, dashboards, and reports, while ensuring sector entities comply with approved data quality standards and guidelines.
• In addition, the position contributes to strategic planning, performance monitoring, budget management, policy implementation, and people management within the Data Platforms Section.
• It plays a key leadership role in enabling the Department and the social sector’s data agenda through robust, scalable, and governed data platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field, Masters preferred.
• Currently on a supervisory/Lead role managing a team.
• Minimum 8 years of total full-time experience.

Required Skills

• Preference will be given to candidates with hands-on experience in modern data platform technologies, cloud data ecosystems, data warehousing, data lakes/lake houses, ETL/ELT tools, data integration platforms, data cataloguing, metadata management, and data quality solutions.
• Experience with platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Purview, Databricks, Snowflake, SQL-based data platforms, and enterprise data governance tools would be considered an advantage.