Senior Data Platform Architect — Secure On-Prem & AI-Ready

Aspire Technology; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspire Technology is seeking a Senior Data Architect to shape secure, mission-critical data foundations across multiple products. You will own architecture for resilient, high-performance data platforms and work in demanding on-premise environments including air-gapped deployments.

You will guide data pipelines, governance, and schema management, communicating complex concepts to diverse stakeholders while delivering practical, implementable solutions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• At least eight years’ experience in data engineering, software architecture or related discipline.
• Strong expertise in data architecture, platform design and data management.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Knowledge of distributed processing technologies, messaging/ integration patterns, and orchestration tools.
• Understanding of data governance, security architecture, access controls, auditing and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Research, design and lead development of a shared data platform adaptable across products and environments.
• Define and promote architectural patterns for data warehouses, data lakes and data management.
• Architect and guide data pipelines supporting operational, analytical and AI workloads.
• Establish architecture standards and schema management for diverse data types.
• Design solutions for on-premise, air-gapped, low-latency and security-sensitive environments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align delivery with strategy and product roadmap.
• Provide architectural direction while staying close to practical implementation.

Skills

Data architecture

Platform design

Data management

RDBMS & NoSQL

Distributed processing

Security & governance

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Master’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Airflow

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Aspire Technology is seeking a Senior Data Architect to shape secure, mission-critical data foundations across multiple products. You will own architecture for resilient, high-performance data platforms and work in demanding on-premise environments including air-gapped deployments.

You will guide data pipelines, governance, and schema management, communicating complex concepts to diverse stakeholders while delivering practical, implementable solutions.