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Job Description: Principal Technical Architect (Big Data)

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

About Presight

Presight is an ADX-listed public company with Abu Dhabi based G42 as its majority shareholder and is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by GenAI. It combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, of every scale, to create business and positive societal impact. Presight excels at all-source data interpretation to support insight-driven decision-making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies. Today, through its range of GenAI-driven products and solutions, Presight is bringing Applied AI to the private and public sector, enabling them to realize their AI strategy and ambitions faster.

Position Overview:

The Principal Technical Architect (Big Data)will serve as the strategic technical leader, responsible for designing, validating, and implementing robust and scalable architectures for our data analytics and AI solutions. The role will involve close collaboration with product, engineering, and sales teams to ensure alignment between business objectives and technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and enforce data architecture and standards and best practices to ensure quality, scalability, performance, and data integrity.
• Perform technical assessments to determine hardware requirements and sizing for big data workloads (storage, compute, networking).
• Design robust and scalable data ingestion, transformation, and storage pipelines using modern big data technologies.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical oversight of data engineering teams to ensure efficient implementation on client’s sites.
• Collaborate with platform core development team as subject matter expert on the enhancing data management and processing components – identify the gaps and improvements, create feature requests, evaluate the new releases, code review.
• Comply with QHSE (Quality Health Safety and Environment), Business Continuity, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance Management, and Governance of Organizations policies, procedures, plans, and related risk assessments.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Master's is preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experience working in data intensive projects as Big Data Engineer / Architect role.
• Strong expertise in big data modelling and architecture best practices, proficiency in designing scalable data pipelines and integration workflows.
• Excellent knowledge of modern big data methodologies and technologies including ingestion, batch and streaming processing, storage and querying. (Spark, Kafka, Trino, Clickhouse, S3… or similar)
• Experience estimating hardware and infrastructure sizing for various analytics workloads.

Skills:

• Solid computer science fundamentals, fluent in SQL and one of the general programming languages (Java, Python)
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Software development experience – familiarity with product development lifecycle, hands on coding/code review skills.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF).
• Experience with big data technologies and analytics platforms (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role, providing technical guidance during sales cycles or customer engagements.

Join us at Presight, where we offer a culture of innovation, outstanding career growth opportunities, and competitive rewards. If you're eager to conquer new frontiers in AI and thrive in a dynamic environment, we welcome you to our community.

What working at Presight offers:

Culture: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground-breaking, industry-first innovations.

Career: Accelerate your career through high-impact projects andaccess to resources for continuous growth and learning opportunities.

Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.