Lead Data Architect: Azure Databricks & Lakehouse

TAQA Distribution; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

TAQA Distribution seeks a senior data architect to lead enterprise data architecture initiatives across lakehouse, warehouse, and analytics, ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT strategy. You will drive governance, standards, and roadmaps, while collaborating with security, data engineering, and analytics teams.

The role requires hands-on design, mentoring of data professionals, and deep experience with Azure Databricks and modern cloud data platforms to support digital

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing enterprise data architectures across data lakehouse, data warehouse, and analytics.
• Strong modelling skills across conceptual, logical, and physical levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of scalable, secure data architectures aligned with IT strategy.
• Define standards, roadmaps, and governance for data platforms.
• Collaborate with security, engineering, and analytics teams to ensure compliance.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Data modelling (conceptual/logical/phy

Data governance

Data security & privacy

Cloud data platforms

Stakeholder collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / Computer Science

Tools

Azure Databricks

Data governance tools

Job description

TAQA Distribution seeks a senior data architect to lead enterprise data architecture initiatives across lakehouse, warehouse, and analytics, ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT strategy. You will drive governance, standards, and roadmaps, while collaborating with security, data engineering, and analytics teams.

The role requires hands-on design, mentoring of data professionals, and deep experience with Azure Databricks and modern cloud data platforms to support digital