Data Architect (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Summary

The IT company Andersen invites a Data Architect in Abu Dhabi to join its team for working with a company from the UAE.

The customer is a government entity that manages public affairs and oversees various corporate and philanthropic projects. The company is embarking on a transformative digital journey to enhance its operational efficiency and customer experiences.

The project focuses on digital transformation in the UAE to develop and support digital solutions, enhance social services, strengthen public engagement, advance international relations, and optimize administrative processes.

Responsibilities

• Designing and evolving data architecture across ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption layers.
• Defining data modeling strategies (conceptual, logical, physical) for structured and unstructured data.
• Architecting data lakes and lakehouses (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi) with bronze-silver-gold layering.
• Leading implementation of ETL/ELT pipelines using Airflow, dbt, Talend, Informatica.
• Ensuring data governance, lineage, and metadata management using tools like Apache Atlas, DataHub, Collibra.
• Collaborating with AI/ML teams to prepare data for model training, including feature engineering and data tagging.
• Integrating streaming solutions (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming) for real-time data processing.
• Implementing security frameworks: RBAC, row-level security, encryption, GDPR/HIPAA compliance.
• Supporting BI and analytics platforms (Tableau, Oracle Analytics) with well-structured data models.
• Guiding CI/CD for data pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Documenting architectural decisions, integration diagrams, and security models.

Requirements

• Experience in data architecture, data engineering, or solution architecture roles for 8+ years.
• Hands-on expertise with Oracle technologies.
• Proven experience designing scalable data platforms in hybrid (cloud + on-prem) environments.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, and compliance.
• Experience with AI/ML data preparation and orchestration pipelines.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
• Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Desired skills

• Experience with LLM integration and AI orchestration tools (e.g., Alteryx).
• Familiarity with mobile data consumption architecture.
• Certifications in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!