{"id":1133613,"url":"https://alion.io/job/aldar-properties-pjsc-vice-president-data-platforms","title":"Vice President – Data Platforms","company":{"id":8983,"name":"Aldar Properties PJSC","domain":"aldar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/aldar-properties-pjsc","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":94,"open_postings":26,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.038,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":356,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"],"countries":["AE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":122000,"max_usd":253000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":2106},"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T05:08:30Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T03:37:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"JOB PURPOSE\nOwn the data backbone of the Group: the platforms through which data is ingested, stored, modeled, governed and made available for analytics, Artificial Intelligence and operational use across Aldar and its subsidiaries.\nEstablish end-to-end accountability from data platform engineering to operations, building AI-ready foundations and a self-service model that lets Group Digital and the business consume trusted data at speed, without the data platform becoming a bottleneck.\nServe Group Digital's Data & AI teams with data and self-service capabilities; analytics and data science ownership remains with Group Digital.\nROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nData Platform Strategy & Architecture:\nDefine and evolve the Group data platform architecture: ingestion, storage, modeling, processing and serving layers.\nDesign for reuse, scalability, security-by-design and cost efficiency across the Group and subsidiaries.\nBuild AI-ready foundations: pipelines, data products and platform capabilities that support advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence use cases.\nData Engineering & Ingestion:\nOwn data ingestion from enterprise and subsidiary source systems into the Group data platform, with reliable, monitored pipelines.\nSet engineering standards for data pipelines, data products and platform automation.\nEnsure database management and storage planning support performance and growth.\nPlatform Data Governance & Quality:\nImplement platform-level data governance: data principles, cataloguing, lineage, quality monitoring and access controls.\nSafeguard master data alignment and data reliability for downstream consumers.\nPartner with Information Security on data protection controls across the platform.\nServing Group Digital & Self-Service:\nServe Group Digital's Data & AI teams with data and self-service capabilities, with clear interfaces and service commitments.\nEnable governed self-service for business and subsidiary teams, balancing autonomy with control.\nProvide centralized observability of data flows supporting digital products.\nOperations & Reliability:\nEnsure availability, performance and cost discipline of the data platform in production.\nEstablish monitoring, incident management and capacity planning for data services.\nDrive FinOps discipline on data platform and storage spend.\nLeadership & Talent Development:\nBuild and lead the Data Platforms team, including data platform and database management capabilities.\nDevelop data engineering depth and support Emiratization objectives.\nWhat This Role Is Not:\nNot an analytics or data science role; those capabilities are owned by Group Digital.\nNot a reporting or Business Intelligence delivery function; the role provides the platform others build on.\nNot limited to Aldar corporate; the platform serves the Group and its subsidiaries.\nThis role owns the data backbone on which the Group's analytics and Artificial Intelligence ambitions are built.\nRELATED YEAR OF EXPERIENCE\nMinimum of 10-12+ years in data platform engineering or data architecture leadership within large, complex organizations.\nYOE IN MANAGERIAL POSITION\nMinimum of 2+ years of managerial experience in a related field.\nFIELD OF EXPERIENCE\nEnterprise data platforms at group or multi-entity scale, including cloud data stacks\nData engineering practices, data governance tooling and self-service enablement\nBuilding AI-ready data foundations (pipelines, MLOps-adjacent capabilities) is an advantage\nTECHNICAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS\nEngineering leader with architectural depth; credible with both engineers and executive stakeholders\nService mindset toward Group Digital and the business: the platform exists to be consumed\nRigorous on data reliability, governance and cost discipline\nComfortable operating at the boundary between technology platforms and digital product teams\nQUALIFICATION\nBachelor's degree in a relevant field is required\nMaster's degree is preferable","description_format":"text","description_chars":3924,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Real Estate","Real Estate Investment","Property Development"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T05:28:18Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":356,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/aldar-properties-pjsc-vice-president-data-platforms","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/aldar-properties-pjsc-vice-president-data-platforms.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T05:43:42Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}