Lead Enterprise BI - Greenfield Analytics in Abu Dhabi

Mal.AI; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Mal.AI is building a Sharia-compliant digital bank and seeks a Lead - Business Intelligence to establish the enterprise BI function from day one. You will own metrics, executive and operational reporting, self-service analytics, and a path to agentic insights across every domain of the bank. This is a rare greenfield opportunity.

You will not inherit a legacy BI stack or a crowded team structure. You will lead the enterprise analytics function from ground up under the Head of Data in Abu Dhabi

Qualifications

• 8+ years in business intelligence, analytics, or data leadership in regulated environments.
• Proven experience building BI capability as a first hire or solo lead.
• Strong command of enterprise KPI design, metrics frameworks, and cross-domain reporting.
• Advanced SQL and hands-on experience with modern BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Metabase).
• Experience with semantic layers or metrics layers (dbt metrics, LookML or equivalent).
• Excellent dashboard and data visualization skills for executive and operational audiences.
• Ability to translate messy business problems into clean, measurable analytics.
• Builder mindset with governance, accessibility, and stakeholder influence.

Responsibilities

• Define the BI operating model and roadmap as the founding BI Lead.
• Own enterprise metrics layer, KPI dictionary, and reporting standards across banking domains.
• Champion data storytelling and translate data into decision-ready narratives for leadership.
• Create KPIs and dimensions, identify insight gaps, and prioritize data product initiatives.
• Design and deliver dashboards for Credit & Lending, Finance, Core Banking, CRM, and more.
• Establish BI governance, access controls, dataset certification, and refresh SLAs.
• Enable self-service analytics with certified datasets and comprehensive documentation.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and AI teams on models, prescriptive analytics, and agentic reporting.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Semantic layer

Data storytelling

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

dbt Metrics

LookML

Metabase

Job description

Mal.AI is building a Sharia-compliant digital bank and seeks a Lead - Business Intelligence to establish the enterprise BI function from day one. You will own metrics, executive and operational reporting, self-service analytics, and a path to agentic insights across every domain of the bank. This is a rare greenfield opportunity.

You will not inherit a legacy BI stack or a crowded team structure. You will lead the enterprise analytics function from ground up under the Head of Data in Abu Dhabi