Data Tech Lead Middle East

Role purpose

Data technology leadership

• Lead the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of regional data platforms and solutions.
• Translate business, regulatory, and data requirements into secure, scalable, sustainable technology solutions.
• Lead data engineering, integration, data quality, metadata, lineage, and analytics capabilities.
• Ensure compliance with architecture standards, security controls, data governance principles, and regulatory requirements.
• Promote automation, testing, monitoring, DevOps, operational resilience, and stable production support through incident, problem, and change management.

Governance, risk, and assurance

• Explain data architecture, flows, controls, lineage, storage, access, and operational processes to regulators and assurance teams.
• Maintain audit-ready evidence for data ownership, controls, resilience, and remediation.
• Manage technology risks, dependencies, issues, and regulatory commitments across the regional portfolio.

Vendor and estate optimization

• Improve vendor and IT estate value, efficiency, control, and strategic alignment within MENAT Data Technology.
• Simplify the estate, reduce duplication, and transition legacy or tactical services to strategic platforms.
• Align the MENAT estate with Group technology strategy and architecture principles; contribute to wider modernization initiatives.

Leadership and collaboration

• Report to the Head of AME Data Technology and contribute to the MENAT CIO Leadership Team.
• Work with local business, technology, risk, compliance, data, and operations stakeholders to align regional delivery with business, regulatory, and Group priorities.
• Contribute to regional and Group data strategy, standards, governance forums, and communities of practice.
• Build trusted relationships, influence senior stakeholders, and coach technical colleagues in collaboration, knowledge sharing, and consistent controls.

Required experience and skills

• Significant data technology delivery leadership experience in a complex, regulated financial services environment.
• Experience engaging regulators, auditors, or supervisory authorities; MENAT experience is ideal.
• Strong knowledge of data platforms, engineering, integration, governance, lineage, and data quality.
• Understanding of regulatory expectations for data management, privacy, resilience, outsourcing, and technology risk.
• Experience managing regulatory commitments, remediation, evidence packs, governance reporting, vendors, technology rationalization, and IT estate modernization.
• Ability to communicate complex architecture and controls to technical and non-technical audiences; strong stakeholder, influencing, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Experience across multiple countries and local regulatory environments.
• Relevant degree or equivalent professional experience; technology, data, or risk certifications are desirable.