Vice President Data Platforms

ALDAR Properties PJSC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Aldar Properties PJSC is seeking an Engineering Leader for the Group Data Platform to own architecture, ingestion, storage, modeling and governance for analytics, AI, and operations across Aldar and subsidiaries.

The role builds AI-ready data foundations, enabling self-service while maintaining control, reliability, and cost discipline, with a focus on scaling data capabilities across the Group.

Qualifications

• Min 10–12 years in data platform engineering or data architecture leadership.
• Minimum 2 years of managerial experience.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms at group or multi-entity scale, cloud data stacks.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the Group data platform architecture, ingestion, storage, modeling, processing and serving layers.
• Own data ingestion from enterprise sources into the Group data platform with reliable pipelines.
• Implement platform-level data governance, lineage, quality monitoring and access controls.
• Serve Group Digital's Data & AI teams with data and self-service capabilities and clear interfaces.
• Ensure availability, performance and cost discipline of the data platform in production.
• Lead the Data Platforms team and develop data engineering depth for Emiratization objectives.

Skills

Data platform leadership

Architectural depth

Data governance

Cloud data stacks

MLOps-adjacent

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree preferred

Job description

JOB PURPOSE

Own the data backbone of the Group the platforms through which data is ingested stored modeled governed and made available for analytics Artificial Intelligence and operational use across Aldar and its subsidiaries Establish end-to-end accountability from data platform engineering to operations building AI-ready foundations and a self-service model that lets Group Digital and the business consume trusted data at speed without the data platform becoming a bottleneck Serve Group Digital's Data amp AI teams with data and self-service capabilities analytics and data science ownership remains with Group Digital

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Platform Strategy

• Define and evolve the Group data platform architecture ingestion storage modeling processing and serving layers
• Design for reuse scalability security-by-design and cost efficiency across the Group and subsidiaries
• Build AI-ready foundations pipelines data products and platform capabilities that support advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence use cases

Data Engineering

• Own data ingestion from enterprise and subsidiary source systems into the Group data platform with reliable monitored pipelines
• Set engineering standards for data pipelines data products and platform automation
• Ensure database management and storage planning support performance and growth

Platform Data Governance

• Implement platform-level data governance data principles cataloguing lineage quality monitoring and access controls
• Safeguard master data alignment and data reliability for downstream consumers
• Partner with Information Security on data protection controls across the platform

Serving Group Digital

• Serve Group Digital's Data amp AI teams with data and self-service capabilities with clear interfaces and service commitments
• Enable governed self-service for business and subsidiary teams balancing autonomy with control
• Provide centralized observability of data flows supporting digital products

Operations

• Ensure availability performance and cost discipline of the data platform in production
• Establish monitoring incident management and capacity planning for data services
• Drive FinOps discipline on data platform and storage spend

Leadership

• Build and lead the Data Platforms team including data platform and database management capabilities
• Develop data engineering depth and support Emiratization objectives

What This Role Is Not

Not an analytics or data science role those capabilities are owned by Group Digital Not a reporting or Business Intelligence delivery function the role provides the platform others build on Not limited to Aldar corporate the platform serves the Group and its subsidiaries This role owns the data backbone on which the Group s analytics and Artificial Intelligence ambitions are built built

RELATED YEAR OF EXPERIENCE

Minimum of 10-12 years in data platform engineering or data architecture leadership within large complex organizations YOE IN MANAGERIAL POSITION Minimum of 2 years of managerial experience in a related field

FIELD OF EXPERIENCE

Enterprise data platforms at group or multi-entity scale including cloud data stacks Data engineering practices data governance tooling and self-service enablement Building AI-ready data foundations pipelines MLOps-adjacent capabilities is an advantage

TECHNICAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Engineering leader with architectural depth credible with both engineers and executive stakeholders Service mindset toward Group Digital and the business the platform exists to be consumed Rigorous on data reliability governance and cost discipline Comfortable operating at the boundary between technology platforms and digital product teams

QUALIFICATION

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required Master's degree is preferable

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