Lead Data Platform - Enterprise IT - Dubai
Al Futtaim Private Company LLC, United Arab Emirates
Job Description
About the Role
The role is accountable for implementing Data Platform development best practices in a Azure environment by designing appropriate solutions supporting the customer’s business needs as part of the overall Data Platform programme across the group.
The role is accountable for providing direction and guidance to a team of specialists to support and deliver business solutions in their domain expertise aligned with IT strategy.
About the Responsibilities
Support and Maintenance of Solutions
Ensure development, test and delivery of Data Platform & middleware solutions align with global standards.
Collaborate with the business in identifying integration requirements and create corresponding technical specifications
Develop solutions using defined development standards, procedures, and design specifications
Ensure Change Controls are developed, tested & released according to an agreed schedule and ensure all high business impact changes are escalated as appropriate
Expected to be involved both in support activities and a number of development activities.
Exhibits the ability to understand Azure and interface with the functional Teams for the development of solutions
Leadership & Team Management
Lead a lean, skilled and fully engaged team; coach, develop and motivate them to achieve set objectives and deliver maximum contribution
Establish clear objectives, roles and accountabilities of the team
Promote and support your talent within EIT
Resources assigned to project teams, to be managed as appropriate to the needs of application support priorities
Motivate team members to maintain excellence in service delivery and have opportunities for professional development
Promote and fast-track your talent within EIT
Design and Evolution of Solutions
The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to manage all aspect of the business requirements and blueprinting process including:
Solution design and gap analysis
Able to evaluate new functionality; recommending and implementing them
Developing and documenting the detailed solution design
Delivery of Programme/Project solutions/Request for change
Accountable for the development design and of solutions in Data Platform development
Develop technical specifications for solutions
Ability to build integration solutions involving Data Platform and non-Data Platform systems
Ensure that product upgrades, enhancements, and future roll out projects meet business requirements and goals, fulfil end user requirements
Operating in a programme context, including liaising with the Data Platform functional and development teams and working with people and organisations from different regions/cultures
Continuous Improvement
Work with other functional teams within EIT and the Business to identify opportunities for implementation of integration solutions which can replace the existing custom developments and thereby building a central repository of all interfaces
Identify and recommend new technologies to management, as well as detail potential applications and implications for the business
Expected to provide positive influence on junior members of the Data Platform Development team and be capable of advising on additional process optimization/improvement opportunities
Job Specification
About the Requirements
Education:
A degree in Computer Science or related discipline
Minimum Experience and Knowledge:
A minimum of 7 – 10 years’ experience in the design, development, testing, debugging, delivery and support of Data Platform solutions
Managed minimum 3 full Data Platform project life cycles of significant size, scope and complexity
Knowledge of Azure will be highly regarded
Experience in Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Informatica, Talend, or Databricks will be highly regarded
Working knowledge of Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Data Warehouse experience (Kimball, Inmon, Data Vault 2.0) will be highly regarded
Experience with various messaging systems, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
Experience in managing offshore development / vendor management
Experience of working in the Retail/Automotive/Real Estate/Trading industries will be highly regarded
Products: Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Informatica, Talend, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Snowflake, MSSQL, SSIS
Job-Specific/Technical Skills:
Business Needs Analysis, Solution Design and Documentation
Providing support and maintenance for the Data Platform
Development and support of middleware and Integration solutions
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