Senior Data Architect: Enterprise AI & Data Platform Lead

SALT; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

SALT in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Data Architect to define and shape the enterprise data architecture across operational systems, analytics, and AI. You will establish architecture principles, models, integration patterns and governance to build a secure, scalable data ecosystem.

Lead architecture reviews, drive federated data strategies, and collaborate with cybersecurity and business teams to ensure data quality, privacy and compliance across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data architecture or related fields.
• Strong expertise in data modelling, warehousing, lakehouse architecture and data integration.
• Hands-on experience with cloud data ecosystems (Azure, Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Knowledge of governance, metadata, lineage and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise data architecture vision, principles, standards and roadmap.
• Design conceptual, logical and physical data models across operational, analytical and AI environments.
• Establish scalable batch, streaming, API and event-driven integration patterns.
• Develop architecture standards covering metadata, lineage, master data, data quality and lifecycle management.
• Support federated data architecture with clear domain ownership and self-service.
• Evaluate and modernise data platforms including Azure, Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake and lakehouse architectures.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to embed privacy and governance.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance to data engineering teams.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and modernise enterprise data flows.

Skills

Data modelling

Data warehousing

Lakehouse architecture

Data integration

Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Snowflake

Data governance

Metadata & lineage

Data quality

AI/ML support

Security & compliance

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering

TOGAF certification

CDMP certification

Tools

Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

SALT in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Data Architect to define and shape the enterprise data architecture across operational systems, analytics, and AI. You will establish architecture principles, models, integration patterns and governance to build a secure, scalable data ecosystem.

Lead architecture reviews, drive federated data strategies, and collaborate with cybersecurity and business teams to ensure data quality, privacy and compliance across the organization.