Senior Data Architect, Data & AI - Enterprise AI Governance

nairsystems; Qatar; On-site; QAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Nair Systems in Doha, Qatar seeks a Senior Data Architect (Data & AI) with 7–10 years in data architecture, data engineering, and enterprise data management. You will shape data models, governance, and AI data ecosystems while ensuring regulatory compliance and security across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid platforms.

The role emphasizes responsible AI controls, data quality, and stakeholder collaboration with banking clients.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7–10 years of experience in data architecture, enterprise data management, data engineering, or related disciplines.
• Banking or financial services experience preferred.
• GCC and/or Qatar banking experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Govern and oversee the enterprise data architecture framework supporting data analytics and AI initiatives.
• Define and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with business, analytics, and AI requirements.
• Review and validate data architecture designs, end-to-end data flows, data lineage, and integration patterns.
• Ensure alignment with data governance, data quality, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Assess AI use cases from a technical architecture perspective, including data sourcing, integration, scalability, and performance.
• Establish and maintain technical controls supporting Responsible AI, including data validation, bias detection, explainability, traceability, and monitoring.
• Review vendor solutions for alignment with enterprise architecture standards, integration capabilities, security requirements, and performance expectations.
• Conduct data-focused assessments of third-party solutions to evaluate compliance with data protection, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Review Business Requirement Specifications (BRS), solution designs, and Post-Implementation Reviews (PIR) from a data architecture perspective.
• Govern data integration frameworks, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, streaming, and batch-based data flows across enterprise systems.
• Support regulatory compliance initiatives, audits, and architecture governance forums.
• Act as a subject matter expert in data governance, AI governance, Responsible AI, and architecture review forums.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Architectural design

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Job description

Nair Systems in Doha, Qatar seeks a Senior Data Architect (Data & AI) with 7–10 years in data architecture, data engineering, and enterprise data management. You will shape data models, governance, and AI data ecosystems while ensuring regulatory compliance and security across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid platforms.

The role emphasizes responsible AI controls, data quality, and stakeholder collaboration with banking clients.