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AI Data Specialist

Unlock employer Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 09 Apr 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $80k - $100k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

As an AI Data Specialist within the Forward Deployment Engineering (FDE) Unit at the company, you will be the data expert responsible for preparing customer data for AI and GenAI workloads. Your primary focus will be on eliminating data bottlenecks to facilitate the swift transition from concept to live, value-generating AI workloads on the company's infrastructure. In this role, you will collaborate with customer teams to map out data landscapes, build integrations and pipelines, and establish governance and access controls to ensure that data used in proofs of value is secure, compliant, and scalable for production.

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What You’ll Achieve:

  • Lead data readiness assessments for FDE engagements, cataloging data assets and assessing ownership, quality, accessibility, and suitability for AI purposes.
  • Perform hands-on integration and transformation of data to create AI-ready datasets for both proof of value (PoV) and production solutions.
  • Design and configure data governance and compliance controls to meet regulatory and organizational standards.
  • Define integration patterns and pipelines that offer AI-ready data with relevant security, risk, and privacy measures, contributing documentation such as data flow diagrams and governance artifacts.
  • Collaborate with AI Architects to align data flows with the AI software stack and mitigate data-related obstacles, working closely with AI Strategists and customer stakeholders.

Essential Requirements:

  • Typically 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics platforms, or AI data roles within large or complex organizations.
  • Proficiency in building data integrations and ETL/ELT processes, transforming raw data into AI-ready formats, and configuring data governance and compliance controls.
  • Proven ability to scale data pipelines from pilot to production, ensuring performance, reliability, and compliance.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey data flows, governance decisions, and operational needs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites and company locations as required.

Desirable Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data/Information Management, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience in delivering production data pipelines for analytics or AI/ML use cases, along with collaboration experience with security, compliance, architecture, and business stakeholders on data and AI initiatives.
  • Familiarity with modern data platforms, ETL/ELT tooling, and AI/ML-related data patterns.

Language Requirements:

  • No specific language requirements were mentioned.

The company is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Application Closing Date: 6 April 2026
Job ID: R287903
Job Function: Sales Engineering
Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Work Conditions: On-site, Full-time

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