Azure Data Platform Lead

TAQA Distribution; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 380,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

TAQA Distribution in the United Arab Emirates seeks a senior leader to own and advance the Azure data platform. The role drives strategy, architecture, and governance while leading a data platform engineering team responsible for scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and a lakehouse architecture across TAQA's domains.

The successful candidate will partner with senior stakeholders to enable AI, analytics, and operational reporting, ensuring data quality, security, and cost efficiency in a fast-moving energy

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent in information technology.
• 9+ years of relevant working experience in data platforms or equivalent.
• Master’s degree preferred for advanced analytics leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Define and own TAQA Distribution's Azure data platform strategy and technical roadmap.
• Architect and govern TAQA's Azure Lakehouse platform with multi-zone architecture.
• Govern data platform architecture decisions for scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Lead the data platform engineering team, delivering enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines in Azure.
• Implement DataOps standards including IaC, CI/CD, and data quality testing.
• Govern data pipeline performance, monitoring, and data freshness SLAs.
• Define data modelling standards (Star/Snowflake, Data Vault 2.0) and semantic layer design.
• Oversee utility domain data modelling for asset management, metering, GIS, and customer data.

Skills

Azure Data Platform

Leadership

Data Governance

FinOps

Stakeholder Communication

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or equivalent

Master’s degree in information technology or equivalent

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Delta Lake

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

dbt

Great Expectations

Job description

TAQA Distribution in the United Arab Emirates seeks a senior leader to own and advance the Azure data platform. The role drives strategy, architecture, and governance while leading a data platform engineering team responsible for scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and a lakehouse architecture across TAQA's domains.

The successful candidate will partner with senior stakeholders to enable AI, analytics, and operational reporting, ensuring data quality, security, and cost efficiency in a fast-moving energy