Data Architect – BI Team Technical Lead
Summary
A technical lead role in Doha, Qatar, managing BI developers across Oracle OAS and Power BI tracks while architecting on-prem and cloud data platforms (data warehouses, lakehouses, ODS, data marts) and designing ETL/ELT pipelines and data models. Core stack includes Oracle 12c, ODI, OAS, Power BI, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Team & Delivery Management
- Lead and manage BI developers across OAS and Power BI tracks
- Plan and assign tasks, monitor progress, and ensure timely delivery
- Review team deliverables to ensure quality, accuracy, and consistency
- Mentor and support team members technically
- Coordinate UAT support and defect resolution
- Ensure adherence to project timelines, scope, and quality standards
- Architect, design and implement on-prem and on-cloud modern data platforms, RDBMS, operational data store (ODS), data marts, data warehouse, data Lakehouse and cloud storage.
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of data ingestion, data pipelines and ETL/ELT based data solutions. Translate business analytics requirements into technical requirements.
- Define solution architecture, design, governance, tools, and prepare technical documentation.
- Drive standards across the project, establish appropriate procedures for data modelling, data ingestion, and data products design, development and deployment.
- Manage work products versioning, contribute to and publish model management standards and practices for all types of data models including conceptual, logical and physical data models.
Support pre-sales effort, provide proposal inserts for solution architecture design and writeup.
- A university degree in computer science or approved equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Expert Knowledge of modern data warehouse & data Lakehouse design and build.
- Extensive knowledge and proven experience with relational SQL, NoSQL databases, and cloud based data storage and data architecture.
- 8–12 years of hands-on experience in Business Intelligence and analytics
- Demonstrated experience development of logical and physical design documents for different types of data models, solution architecture, and training materials.
- Expert knowledge of workload optimization, query performance, schema optimization and data engineering optimization best practices and methods
Demonstrated experience in defining and executing tests across the development lifecycle (unit testing, system testing, user acceptance testing) and using results to refine database design.
Must Have:
- 8+ years experience working with enterprise data warehouses Demonstrated experience in creating both Functional Design Documents (FDD) & Detailed Design Documents (DDD).
- Strong hands-on experience with BI platforms (Oracle 12c, ODI, OAS and Power BI)
- Strong experience in data architecture, data modeling, semantic layer and KPI design.
- Proven experience leading BI or analytics teams
- Bilingual Arabic and English languages