AI-Driven Banking Data Architect

Confidential; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential in the United Arab Emirates is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation from the ground up. Join at an early stage to shape technology, data, and AI foundations of a business with institutional backing and long-term ambition.

As Data Architect, you will define the bank's data strategy, target-state architecture, data products, and an AI-ready data ecosystem. You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Governance, AI Engineering, Enterprise

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Data Architecture within banking, financial services, or other highly regulated environments.
• Proven experience designing enterprise data platforms that support AI, ML, and analytics workloads.
• Strong expertise in cloud-based data architectures, lakehouse platforms, streaming architectures, and governed data services.
• Experience defining data products, semantic models, metadata architectures, and enterprise data standards.
• Strong knowledge of banking regulatory requirements including BCBS 239, data governance, and data protection frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the bank's enterprise data strategy, target-state architecture, and data models across all business domains.
• Design AI-ready data foundations, including feature pipelines, vector-ready architectures, semantic layers, and end-to-end lineage.
• Establish the bank's data product architecture, operating model, data contracts, and interoperability standards.
• Design data-sharing architectures and ecosystem exchange patterns across internal and external stakeholders.
• Define metadata, semantic, ontology, and master data management frameworks across the organisation.
• Provide architectural leadership, challenge vendor designs, and ensure the target architecture is adopted across delivery teams.

Skills

Data Architecture

AI/ML data platforms

Cloud data architectures

Data products & semantic models

Regulatory knowledge (BCBS 239)

Job description

Confidential in the United Arab Emirates is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation from the ground up. Join at an early stage to shape technology, data, and AI foundations of a business with institutional backing and long-term ambition.

As Data Architect, you will define the bank's data strategy, target-state architecture, data products, and an AI-ready data ecosystem. You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Governance, AI Engineering, Enterprise