Position: Head of Data Architect
Company: iT-Outstaffing™
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

The full-time workload on a remote basis
Start - ASAP
Duration - long term

We are interested in considering candidates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Bahrain. The candidates must be ready to work onsite in the client's office or to be ready to relocate. It's a very significant requirement!

**About the project**
You’ll be a part of an innovative digital banking product team. The bank is pioneering new horizons for customers with a core mission to create a more financially literate society that can succeed in a thriving economy. This will be achieved by introducing smart financial solutions. 
We will accelerate digitization and help to reach a cashless society. Providing financial solutions across industry value chains, we aim to support the growth of all sectors of the economy. By facilitating banking access to segments traditionally considered high-risk, we aim to promote financial inclusion. Using continuous Data Analysis in our AI Engine and our PFM solution, we will help our customers better spend and save money.

**Responsibilities:**

**Essential Functions**
● Set up technical strategy for Data and Analytics (Data Engineering, Big Data, Data Science, Deep Learning and IoT) and drive continuous innovation culture within the team
● Develop, maintain and regularly update technical roadmap (unified delivery framework) and ensure a consistent approach to tracking of deliverables & quality across reporting team
● Drive solutions, products and accelerators creation within own domain in alignment with other functional disciplines
● Provide expert technical advice and guidance on Data & Analytics related matters to internal and external clients, bearing on the successful use of complex products and services
● Deliver high end data solutions as a leading expert
● Translate company’s strategy and provide ongoing business updates within reporting team and if needed address possible concerns
● Lead the team of engaged talents, ensure high performance and continuous development;
● Ensure team organisational effectiveness e.g. via maintaining healthy seniority mix

**Business competencies:**
● Performance management - manage individuals and groups, set performance targets, monitor progress against agreed quality and performance criteria.
● Knowledge management - provide advice, guidance and support to adopt and embed best-practice approaches to information and knowledge management into all areas of their work.
● Learning delivery - plan, schedule and deliver learning activities, based on learning objectives.
● Financial management - monitor and maintain all required financial records; contribute to financial planning and budgeting.
● Change management - develop implementation plans for complex requests for change and lead implementation of those changes.
● Relationship management - facilitate business decision-making processes, ensure open communication and discussion between stakeholders is in place.
● Innovation - execute innovation processes via developing, evolving and adopting new market trends, tools, processes.
● Strategic planning - drive and contribute to the development of policies, standards and guidelines for strategy development and planning.

**What background are we expecting?**
● 10+ years in Engineering or Technology roles
● 5+ years of hands-on technical management experience;
● Experience in banking sphere
● Recent experience in the delivery of large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams;
● Ability to assess and report technical debt, compliance, and other risks;
● Recent experience in contributing to data monetization strategy;
● Ability to understand business requirements and translate into Technical solutions;
● Excellent interpersonal and communication including superior presentation skills and proven ability to work effectively at all organizational levels.