Data Architect

Whiteshield

Data Architect designing data platforms and architectures for national and enterprise transformations. Leading strategy and ensuring data quality, governance, and structure for effective use.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeDubai • 🇦🇪 United Arab EmiratesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudETLInformaticaOracleSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

**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

What you’ll need

**WHAT YOU’LL BRING | **
- 7+ years data architecture with deep Oracle and SQL Server expertise
- Informatica PowerCenter (or equivalent ETL platform)
- Change Data Capture (CDC) for incremental and near real-time sync
- Complex source-to-target mapping across large schema landscapes
- Bidirectional sync with conflict resolution strategies
- Data quality profiling, validation, and reconciliation frameworks
- Data governance, lineage tracking, and metadata cataloguing
**Good to have: **
- Domain-driven data modelling (database-per-service patterns)
- Liquibase or equivalent schema change management
- Physical schema design 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’re focused on outcomes, not just outputs
- Passion and adaptability: You bring energy, depth, and flexibility to your work

Benefits

Comp & perks

**Meaningful impact****Your work helps shape products used at national scale - enabling people to access services, opportunities, and support that make a real difference in everyday lives.
**Creative freedom****You will have room to explore ideas, test approaches, and raise the bar for design quality - even in complex, regulated environments. We value thoughtful experimentation and encourage new ways of working.
**High-calibre collaboration****You’ll work alongside talented people across policy, data, design, and technology - bringing different perspectives together to solve complex problems well.
**Flexibility that works****We operate in an outcome-driven, remote-friendly way that respects individual working styles. Trust, autonomy, and balance are core to how we work.
**Supportive culture****You will join a team that values respect, inclusion, and wellbeing - where people are encouraged to do their best work without burning out.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data architectureOracleSQL ServerInformatica PowerCenterChange Data Capturedata quality profilingdata governancedomain-driven data modellingLiquibasephysical schema design

Soft Skills

curiositystrong communicationcollaborationinitiativeempathyclarityfocus on outcomespassionadaptability