Senior Data Architect — On-Prem Platform, Abu Dhabi

Set2recruit LTD; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 520,000 - 780,000; Full time

Job summary

Set2recruit LTD is seeking a Senior Data Architect to build a new Data Platform from the ground up for a specialist technology company in Abu Dhabi. This on-prem role includes air-gapped environments and a chance to shape governance, storage, processing, and access across complex products.

The role requires onsite work in Abu Dhabi with influence over architectural decisions and alignment with engineering roadmaps. Strong data governance and infra experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience across data engineering/data architecture and ability to make high-level architectural decisions while understanding practical build/operate needs.
• Strong experience with databases, distributed processing, messaging, orchestration, and data governance.
• Experience in defence, government, utilities, critical infrastructure, or other mission-critical environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design a shared Data Platform across multiple products.
• Architect data lakes, warehouses and data management systems.
• Build the architecture for operational, analytics and AI workloads.
• Work with structured, unstructured, time-series, geospatial and binary data.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Distributed processing

On-prem infrastructure

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

SQL databases

Data integration tools

Data orchestration

Governance tools

Job description

Set2recruit LTD is seeking a Senior Data Architect to build a new Data Platform from the ground up for a specialist technology company in Abu Dhabi. This on-prem role includes air-gapped environments and a chance to shape governance, storage, processing, and access across complex products.

The role requires onsite work in Abu Dhabi with influence over architectural decisions and alignment with engineering roadmaps. Strong data governance and infra experience are essential.