Data & AI Specialist: Enterprise BI & AI Solutions

American University of Sharjah; Sharjah; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

The American University of Sharjah is seeking a Data and AI Specialist to deliver practical data analysis, BI reporting, and AI-driven solutions across the university, aligning data work with strategic goals.

You will design and maintain Power BI reports, data warehouses, and pipelines, implement governance, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into production-ready, secure data products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data analytics, BI, and AI/automation solution development.
• Experience in enterprise or higher education environment preferred.
• Ability to manage workload and deliver high-quality work on time.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with high accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical users.
• Experience with Power BI reports and dashboards, DAX, and Power Query.
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle preferred) and data warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI reports and dashboards with data models and DAX.
• Design and maintain the institutional data warehouse, data platform, and pipelines including ETL/ELT and integration with Banner and Oracle Fusion.
• Build LLM-powered and agentic AI solutions, including context engineering and tool calling.
• Build RAG systems with embeddings and vector search.
• Develop workflow automation and system integrations, including chatbots and REST APIs.
• Implement AI guardrails, evaluation, production monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Evaluate SaaS/AI solutions and support procurement.
• Establish data governance, security, data definitions, ownership, row-level security, and least-privilege access.
• Apply SDLC, version control (Git), and deployment pipelines.
• Produce technical and executive documentation and provide user training.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Project management

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/DS/CE/MIS

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Oracle

Azure

Git

Job description

The American University of Sharjah is seeking a Data and AI Specialist to deliver practical data analysis, BI reporting, and AI-driven solutions across the university, aligning data work with strategic goals.

You will design and maintain Power BI reports, data warehouses, and pipelines, implement governance, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into production-ready, secure data products.