Football Insights Architect

City Football Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global sports organization seeks a dynamic individual to lead Football Intelligence services. Located in Abu Dhabi, you'll manage the Football Insights Platform, providing analytical support to enhance decision-making for our teams. Ideal candidates are experienced in elite football and skilled in using Tableau to communicate insights effectively. Proficiency in multiple languages is a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in administrating and managing content on Tableau Server.
• Evidence of deriving actionable insights from football data.
• Experience with promoting the usage of analytics within an organization.

Responsibilities

• Administer the Football Insights Platform and maintain content.
• Provide analytical support to Al-Jazira Club.
• Engage with football practitioners to promote insights tools.

Skills

Experience in elite football environment

Expertise in Tableau Server

Ability to communicate actionable insights

Agile working style

Creative problem-solving

Promoting analytics usage

Confidence in data communication

Experience in global teams

Building analytical products

Designing analytical data sources

Multilingual (English, Spanish, Arabic)

Job description

Closing Date

Closing Date of Applications – 12th October 2025

Our Story

Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.

Our Winning Team

Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.

We are seeking a dynamic individual to lead and support the delivery of Group Football Operations’ central Football Intelligence services across talent, football, and performance disciplines, with a particular focus on our global partners. Based on-site at Al Jazira Club (Academy and First Team), this role will be responsible for managing and maintaining our proprietary Football Insights Platform, while driving education, enablement, and support to ensure its effective use.

Your Impact

• Play a key role in the administration of our proprietary Football Insights Platform, maintaining content enabling the provision of analytical insights across City Football Group.
• Providing on-site analytical support to Al-Jazira Club through education, enablement & delivery of insights for our football practitioners to make better decisions, faster by reducing time to insight.
• Provide analytical reviews / support of CFG partner clubs from a football perspective; providing recommendations for performance optimisation.
• Engaging with our football practitioners to effectively communicate, evangelise and promote tools on our proprietary Football Insights Platform, showcasing the functionality & application to drive better questions.
• Play a key role in developing our intelligence, processes and engagement across CFG Partners, as well as having a positive impact in driving excellence across the group.

What we are looking for

• Preferably, someone who has experience working within an elite football environment.
• Very strong expertise in administrating, maintaining and managing content on Tableau Server.
• Evidence working with, deriving & clearly communicating actionable insights from football data, either as a hobby or within previous employment.
• Ability to work in an agile manner suited to the innovative & fast-paced nature of the football industry.
• Creative problem solver with the drive and discipline to learn & develop new skills.
• Evidence evangelising, promoting and championing the usage of analytics, tools and / or products within an organisation.
• Confidence in being the ‘voice of the data’ and operate independently with oversight from the Head of Football Insights.
• Evidence of working within a global team independently.
• Evidence of building, maintaining and developing beautifully displayed analytical products or tools.
• Evidence designing, building and curating analytically ready data sources.
• The ability to speak multiple languages (i.e. English, Spanish, Arabic)
• We regularly review applications and reserve the right to close an advert early if we identify suitable candidates. To avoid disappointment, please submit your application as soon as possible.