Data & AI Specialist: Power BI, Data Platform & Automation

American University of Sharjah; Sharjah; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

The American University of Sharjah invites applications for a Data and AI Specialist to advance data-informed decision making across the university. You will design, develop, and maintain Power BI reports and data models, build data pipelines, and implement AI-driven solutions with governance and security in mind.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, production-ready data platforms, leverage Azure and Fabric, and contribute to RAG workflows, embeddings,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a relevant field; five years of analytics/BI/AI experience preferred.
• Ability to translate business requirements into governed, production-ready data solutions.
• Strong communication for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI reports and dashboards, including data models and DAX measures.
• Build and maintain data warehouse, data platform, and pipelines with ETL/ELT and integrations with Banner/Oracle Fusion.
• Design and implement LLM-powered and agentic AI solutions, including context engineering and tool calling.
• Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems with embeddings and vector search.
• Develop workflow automation and system integrations via REST APIs and automation.
• Deploy and monitor AI solutions with guardrails, evaluation, and cost considerations.
• Assess SaaS/AI solutions and assist procurement with requirements.
• Establish data governance, data definitions, ownership, audit trails, and least-privilege access.
• Follow SDLC, Git, and deployment pipelines from requirements to production.

Skills

Data analytics

Business intelligence

AI/ML concepts

Data governance

Project management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, or a related discipline

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or related discipline

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Azure

Git

Microsoft Fabric

APIs

Job description

The American University of Sharjah invites applications for a Data and AI Specialist to advance data-informed decision making across the university. You will design, develop, and maintain Power BI reports and data models, build data pipelines, and implement AI-driven solutions with governance and security in mind.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, production-ready data platforms, leverage Azure and Fabric, and contribute to RAG workflows, embeddings,