Data Platform & Analytics Leader

Digitalzone; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Digitalzone in Dubai seeks a senior data platform lead to build and run a cross-vertical data function across Iraq, UAE and KSA. You will own ingestion, warehouse, modelling, orchestration and the analytics layer, turning data into trusted business insights.

You will hire and mentor a team, set metric definitions with commercial, finance and product, and deliver self-serve analytics while preserving data integrity, governance and PII controls across markets.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating a production data platform.
• Strong SQL, dimensional modeling and Python/Go/TS in AWS.
• Proven ability to align metric definitions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor and grow data and analytics engineers.
• Own the data platform architecture: ingestion, warehouse, modelling, orchestration.
• Establish a single source of truth for core metrics.
• Deliver self-serve analytics to reduce ticketing.
• Ensure data trust with freshness SLAs, lineage and testing.
• Collaborate on governance, PII handling across markets.

Skills

Leadership

SQL

Python

TypeScript

Go

AWS

Data modeling

Architectural judgment

Tools

Postgres

Job description

Digitalzone in Dubai seeks a senior data platform lead to build and run a cross-vertical data function across Iraq, UAE and KSA. You will own ingestion, warehouse, modelling, orchestration and the analytics layer, turning data into trusted business insights.

You will hire and mentor a team, set metric definitions with commercial, finance and product, and deliver self-serve analytics while preserving data integrity, governance and PII controls across markets.