Data Director

Auxo Talent; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Auxo Talent in Dubai seeks aDirector of Data to own and evolve a Databricks (Azure) powered data platform for internal business use. This on-site leadership role requires hands-on technical ownership and shaping a growing data function.

You will work closely with stakeholders to govern data, design architecture, and enable AI/ analytics use cases, while delivering reliable data pipelines and platform components.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Databricks and Azure, especially Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and ADF/Synapse
• Proven track record building or scaling enterprise data platforms for internal business functions
• Experience defining and applying data governance standards and frameworks
• Ability to present real architecture decisions with specifics in interviews
• Senior technical leader who stays close to the work, not only managed efforts

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a data platform built on Databricks (Azure) across architecture, pipelines, governance, and data quality
• Own and evolve core components such as Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and ADF/Synapse
• Establish data governance standards including access control, data quality, and platform reliability
• Serve internal corporate functions (finance, operations, reporting) with an internal-facing platform
• Make architecture decisions and present concrete systems you have built
• Support emerging AI/analytics use cases while focusing on the data platform itself

Skills

Databricks

Azure

Leadership

Data governance

Data architectures

Tools

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Azure Data Factory/Synapse

Job description

Director of Data

Dubai

On-site

We are working with an enterprise organisation who are scaling their internal data capability.

You'll step into a role with real technical scope: building, governing, and evolving a platform on Databricks and Azure that the wider business depends on daily.

It's a hands-on leadership seat for someone who wants to shape a growing data function from a position of genuine technical ownership, not manage it from a distance.

What you'll do:

• Lead and scale a data platform built on Databricks (Azure), covering architecture, pipelines, governance, and data quality
• Own and evolve the platform's core components: Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory/Synapse or equivalent
• Establish data governance standards, including access control, data quality, and platform reliability
• Serve internal corporate functions (finance, operations, reporting); this is an internal-facing platform role, not customer/product data
• Own decisions on data architecture and be able to walk through real systems you've built, not just managed
• Support emerging AI/analytics use cases as a secondary focus; the core mandate is the data platform itself

What you'll need:

• Demonstrable hands-on experience with Databricks and Azure specifically: Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, ADF/Synapse or equivalent. Generic "cloud data" experience won't cut it
• A track record of building or scaling enterprise data platforms serving internal business functions, not consumer-facing products
• Experience setting data governance frameworks and standards, not just building pipelines
• Ready to walk through a real architecture or platform decision in interview, with specifics, not high-level talk
• Comfortable operating as a senior individual technical leader, close to the work, not purely managerial