AI & Data Enablement Lead

DFI Retail Group; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

DFI Retail Group seeks a hands-on AI & Data Enablement Manager to accelerate practical AI adoption and strengthen data foundations for AI and BI initiatives. You will partner with business teams to scope use cases, prototype AI capabilities, and work with data owners, architects, and engineers to ensure data readiness and governance.

You will lead data profiling, quality improvement, and AI-enabled data management while coordinating with procurement, legal, privacy and security teams for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in data science, computer science, information systems, engineering, business analytics, statistics, data management, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• AI opportunity discovery and prototyping: Partner with business teams to define and prioritise AI opportunities. Coordinate prototypes and proofs of value to assess business value, user needs, data readiness and technical feasibility.
• Data readiness for AI: Work hands-on with business and engineering teams to profile priority datasets, identify gaps and determine whether data is sufficiently available, accurate, complete, timely, representative and appropriately governed for its intended use.
• Data improvement: Translate AI ambitions into concrete data requirements and remediation plans. Coordinate improvements across data owners, stewards, source-system teams, architects and engineers.
• AI-enabled data management: Prototype the use of AI for data profiling, cleansing, classification, matching, enrichment, metadata generation and anomaly detection. Establish appropriate business validation and human oversight.
• External data acquisition: Identify and evaluate external data required for AI and BI use cases. Partner with Procurement, Legal, Privacy, Security and engineering teams to assess, acquire and onboard data with appropriate usage rights and controls.
• Domain data foundations: Help define the target state or north star for priority data domains. Translate this into practical roadmaps covering authoritative sources, data quality, metadata, ownership, integration, access and AI readiness.
• Governance and responsible AI: Embed data governance, privacy, security, contractual and responsible AI requirements into experimentation and data improvement activities.
• Evaluation and transition: Define clear success criteria for prototypes and recommend whether opportunities should stop, be refined or progress into formal delivery. Support successful handover with documented requirements, ownership, data dependencies and controls.

Skills

Data governance

AI enablement

Data management

Data profiling

Data quality

Metadata

Data lineage

SQL

Python

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data science, computer science, information systems, engineering, business analytics, statistics, data management, or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

DFI Retail Group seeks a hands-on AI & Data Enablement Manager to accelerate practical AI adoption and strengthen data foundations for AI and BI initiatives. You will partner with business teams to scope use cases, prototype AI capabilities, and work with data owners, architects, and engineers to ensure data readiness and governance.

You will lead data profiling, quality improvement, and AI-enabled data management while coordinating with procurement, legal, privacy and security teams for