Data Lead

Sumaratechnology; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 293,793 - 440,690; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Market standard EOSB and performance bonuses

Professional development and conference budgets

Team building events

Job summary

Sumaratechnology in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a founding data hire to lead analytics for a unified financial platform. This pivotal role involves shaping the decision-making process through data, with responsibilities such as defining metrics, transforming raw data into actionable insights, and utilizing BI tools. The ideal candidate has over 5 years in data analytics, strong SQL and Python skills, and experience in fintech or trading. Competitive salary and professional development opportunities available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data analytics, ideally in fintech, trading, or consumer financial products.
• Proficient in writing clean SQL transformations.
• Comfortable using modern BI tools for data insight.

Responsibilities

• Define the metric system for product teams.
• Transform raw data into actionable insights.
• Decide how data gets measured and reported.

Skills

Expert SQL

Strong Python

AI fluency

Experience with BI tools

Tools

Looker

Mode

Tableau

Job description

We are building a unified financial platform that combines trading, investing, crypto, and everyday spending into a single account. One portfolio, one identity, one system.

We are early. Our partner already operates one of the largest professional trading platforms globally and brings real data scale and infrastructure with it. The data layer needed to run a multi-product consumer super app is a different shape, and most of it still needs to be designed, built, and connected to how the company actually makes decisions.

This role exists to lead that work. You are the founding data hire. You shape what we measure, how we measure it, and how the entire org makes decisions on data instead of opinions.

We are not hiring an analyst to build dashboards on demand. We are hiring the person who designs the decision system that runs the company.

You sit between five products that move money at different speeds: real-time card spend, T+2 equities, leveraged CFD execution, on-chain crypto settlement, and stablecoin transfers. Every pillar generates data with different shapes and constraints.

Your job is to make all of it queryable, trustworthy, and useful, fast.

You define the metric system every team operates on

You turn raw events into behavioral insight the product team can act on

You decide what gets measured, how, and what we ignore

You report directly to the Product Director. Your work shapes prioritization, not just reporting.

Requirements

Required

5+ years in data analytics, ideally with hands‑on experience in fintech, trading, or consumer financial products

Expert SQL. You write clean transformations, not just ad-hoc queries

Strong Python for analysis, automation, and workflow compression

Hands‑on experience with modern BI tools (Looker, Mode, Omni, Tableau, or equivalent)

Solid grasp of dimensional modelling and how schemas survive product evolution

AI fluency. You use LLMs and automation daily to multiply your output

Track record of translating ambiguous business questions into clean analytical answers, and pushing back when the question itself is wrong

Comfort operating without a data manager, a defined roadmap, or a finished spec

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Market standard EOSB and performance bonuses
• Professional development and conference budgets
• Team building events, career mentorship, and strong company culture