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Data Architect

Unlock employer Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 03 Jul 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $80k - $120k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Hybrid
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

The company is a global advisory firm operating at the intersection of strategy, public policy, and digital transformation. Our work combines strategic advisory with hands-on execution, supporting senior decision-makers in navigating complex regulatory, economic, and technological environments. We are building data platforms and architectures that sit at the core of national and enterprise transformation programmes, driving decision-making, AI systems, and digital services at scale.

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What You Will Do

  • Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing data architectures across cloud and hybrid environments
  • Define enterprise data models, standards, and governance frameworks to ensure consistency and interoperability
  • Architect modern data platforms (data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses) to support analytics, AI, and operational use cases
  • Lead client engagements as a trusted advisor on data strategy, architecture, and platform design
  • Translate business and policy objectives into structured data solutions and pipelines
  • Establish data governance practices including data quality, lineage, cataloguing, and access control
  • Design data integration strategies across multiple systems, APIs, and external data sources
  • Enable AI and advanced analytics use cases by ensuring data is structured, accessible, and production-ready
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to implement pipelines, orchestration, and real-time/streaming architectures
  • Balance long-term architecture vision with rapid delivery in dynamic environments

Requirements

  • 7+ years data architecture with deep Oracle and SQL Server expertise
  • Experience with Informatica PowerCenter (or equivalent ETL platform)
  • Familiarity with Change Data Capture (CDC) for incremental and near real-time sync
  • Experience in complex source-to-target mapping across large schema landscapes
  • Understanding of bidirectional sync with conflict resolution strategies
  • Knowledge of data quality profiling, validation, and reconciliation frameworks
  • Experience with data governance, lineage tracking, and metadata cataloguing

Good to Have

  • Domain-driven data modelling (database-per-service patterns)
  • Experience with Liquibase or equivalent schema change management
  • Ability to design physical schema from logical/conceptual model

What We Value

  • Curiosity and action: You take initiative and explore new ideas
  • Empathy and clarity: You’re a strong communicator and collaborator
  • Delivery and impact: You focus on outcomes, not just outputs
  • Passion and adaptability: You bring energy, depth, and flexibility to your work

Benefits

  • Meaningful impact: Your work helps shape products used at national scale, enabling people to access services and support that make a real difference.
  • Creative freedom: You will have room to explore ideas and raise the bar for design quality, even in complex environments.
  • High-calibre collaboration: You’ll work alongside talented people across policy, data, design, and technology to solve complex problems.
  • Flexibility that works: We operate in an outcome-driven, remote-friendly way that respects individual working styles.
  • Supportive culture: Join a team that values respect, inclusion, and wellbeing, encouraging people to do their best work without burning out.
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