AI Data Architect

About the role

Join a newly established AI Hub within a leading financial services organisation in Abu Dhabi. You will design and build robust data architectures and pipelines that support both operational and advanced analytical use cases in a fast‑moving environment.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest, cleanse and transform data from diverse sources.
• Develop and optimise big‑data architectures to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with software engineering and AI/ML teams to apply best practices in data governance, security and quality.
• Continuously improve pipelines, proactively identify issues and implement fixes.
• Document data architectures, lineage and metadata to support transparency and long‑term scalability.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL/ELT development or data warehousing.
• Proven experience with Databricks (or similar) and building AI use cases.
• Hands‑on experience building automated pipelines using tools such as Airflow, Luigi or dbt.
• Strong understanding of big‑data architectures and performance optimisation.
• Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in Python plus at least one additional language (Scala or Java).
• Experience with cloud‑based data platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.

Required skills

• Databricks (or equivalent)
• ETL/ELT pipeline development
• Airflow, Luigi, dbt
• Big data architectures
• Advanced SQL
• Python
• Scala or Java
• Cloud data platforms