Banking-Grade Data Modelling & Platform Lead

Deeplight AI; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Visa sponsorship

Professional development support

Monthly Employee Incentive program

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Deeplight AI is seeking a Data Modelling & Engineering Lead to own enterprise data models, business definitions, pipeline code quality, and engineering standards across major banking engagements in Dubai.

You will bridge conceptual data structures and production-grade engineering, leading senior engineers and governing vendor build quality while reporting to C-level stakeholders with clarity and gravitas in a dynamic UAE fintech landscape.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in hands-on data engineering and modelling.
• 4+ years leading engineering standards or platform teams in consultancies or major banks.
• Retail Banking data solutions experience in RBG environments.
• Ability to present to CTOs, Heads of Engineering and executives with clarity.

Responsibilities

• Own Enterprise Data Models, Glossaries, and canonical data schemas.
• Set firm-wide platform standards for pipelines, testing, CI/CD.
• Direct senior data engineers to ensure adoption of shared components and patterns.
• Audit vendor codebases and data artifacts before production release.
• Review SteerCo packs and validate vendor progress and delivery velocity.
• Evaluate Change Requests and root-cause delays in projects.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Data Modelling

Retail Banking

Real-time Data

Stakeholder Communication

Vendor Management

Tools

SQL

Python

PySpark/Databricks

Snowflake

Kafka

dbt

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Deeplight AI is seeking a Data Modelling & Engineering Lead to own enterprise data models, business definitions, pipeline code quality, and engineering standards across major banking engagements in Dubai.

You will bridge conceptual data structures and production-grade engineering, leading senior engineers and governing vendor build quality while reporting to C-level stakeholders with clarity and gravitas in a dynamic UAE fintech landscape.