Job Code: JPC-6318
Job Title: Data Architect
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
We are looking for an experienced
Data Architect to design and drive enterprise-level data architecture, data modeling, integration, and governance initiatives. The successful candidate will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to build scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions aligned with organizational objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Data Architecture & Design
- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise data architecture aligned with strategic business objectives.
- Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support enterprise data management and analytics.
- Establish data architecture roadmaps ensuring scalability, security, performance, and efficiency.
- Design architectures for data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and enterprise data platforms.
Data Standards & Governance
- Define and enforce data architecture principles, standards, and best practices.
- Establish guidelines for data modeling, data dictionaries, metadata management, and reference/master data.
- Ensure architecture complies with data governance, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- Support implementation of Master Data Management (MDM) and data quality frameworks.
Data Integration & Management
- Design enterprise data integration frameworks connecting internal and external data sources.
- Define and oversee ETL/ELT pipelines for extracting, transforming, processing, and loading data.
- Collaborate with IT and engineering teams in selecting and implementing data management technologies.
- Ensure seamless integration across enterprise applications and data platforms.
Performance & Optimization
- Monitor and optimize data architecture performance through testing, validation, and troubleshooting.
- Improve data accessibility, security, reliability, and processing efficiency.
- Ensure appropriate indexing, partitioning, and optimization techniques for improved query performance.
Stakeholder & Technical Leadership
- Collaborate with senior management, business stakeholders, IT teams, data engineers, analysts, and governance teams.
- Translate business requirements into scalable and efficient data architecture solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and architectural leadership for enterprise data initiatives.
- Ensure data solutions meet both functional and strategic business requirements.
Technology & Innovation
- Evaluate emerging data technologies, platforms, and architecture approaches.
- Conduct feasibility assessments for new data solutions and technologies.
- Recommend tools and platforms that strengthen enterprise data capabilities.
- Promote industry best practices in data architecture and enterprise data management.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 7+ years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, and enterprise data management.
- Proven experience designing and implementing data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and enterprise data frameworks.
- Strong hands-on understanding of ETL/ELT, data integration, metadata management, MDM, and data governance.
- Expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and data modeling/architecture tools such as Erwin and ArchiMate.
- Experience with cloud data platforms across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
- Strong understanding of data security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and data quality principles.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Certifications
Certifications such as the following will be an advantage:
- TOGAF
- DAMA CDMP
- AWS Certified Data Analytics or equivalent AWS data certification
- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
