Emirates NBD Hiring for Senior Platform Owner Data Job at Dubai Full Time

Senior Platform Owner- Data Role

The AVP Technical Data Platforms leads a team of Data practitioners – Senior Data Engineers, Data Engineers, Senior Analytics Platform Specialist and Analytics Platform Specialist. The role is mainly an operational role, ensuring the data platforms are well managed and meeting performance requirements and user needs. The role also is required to ensure architectural standards and patterns are defined and adhered to and optimize the data ingestion process..

The AVP Technical Data Platforms is responsible and accountable for data platforms i.e. the efficient running of Hadoop, SAP HANA, Informatica administration, SAS and Microsoft Power BI. The role is required to work closely with Business and Technology stakeholders.

This role involves ensuring the data platforms are meeting security requirements, are used efficiently by different workloads e.g. applications, data scientists, analytical users. There is also the need to audit and monitor activity. A key part of the role is resource management e.g. working with resource and product vendors scaling to provide resources to meet delivery demand. A key requirement is Servant Leadership, creating an environment where the engineers are empowered and encouraged to grow and build expertise and ownership. The role involves team management including recruiting of FTE and contractors and ensuring individuals’ careers and performance is managed according to HR policies.

The role requires an Agile mindset as well as building an Agile culture as defined by the LEAP Strategy. The role also is required to adopt a continuous improvement approach to delivery and automation implementation e.g. DevOps, CI/CD. For example as part of a well managed platform, source code is promoted in a rigorous and auditable manner.

As part of good data management the role will ensure data is governed and meta-data is captured.

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelors of Computer Science or Equivalent

• Relevant Certification

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Banking & Finance industry

• Minimum 5 years professional experience in Data Warehouse and Analytics

• Knowledge/exposure to Modern Data Warehouse Architecture and Analytics platforms

• Agile working practices

• 2 years Data Engineering experience or analytics experience

• 2 years experience of DevOps, CI/CD

• 5 years experience of managing large team >8

• 4+ years of working experience with ETL tool, preferably Informatica

• Solid knowledge of Data Warehouse principles

• 5 years Experience of working with Hadoop or HANA,

• Experience of working with Hadoop related tools e.g. Spark, Scqoop

• 2 years Experience of working in Agile teams as part of a squad.

• 2 year Experience of technical aspects of Data Governance including glossary, metadata, data quality, master data management & data lifecycle management

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