Vice President - Data Services Job Sharjah area,UAE/Dubai,IT/Tech

Job Purpose

To own and lead the bank’s enterprise data strategy, data architecture, and analytics capabilities, including cloud and big-data platforms. The role is responsible for designing, delivering, and managing a centralized data warehouse and enterprise data model that supports business intelligence, MIS, predictive analytics, and regulatory reporting. This position enables high-quality, secure, and trusted data across the organization, supports self-service analytics for business users, and ensures data platforms, reporting tools, and integration processes are implemented and maintained in line with best practices and evolving business requirements.

Reports

directly to

Senior Vice President – Technology

Reported to by

Senior Data Engineer IT - Data Modelling & Analytics
Data Engineer IT - Data Modelling & Analytics
Graduate Officer IT
Graduate Officer Data Modelling & Analytics

Duties and Responsibilities

To develop and implement a central Bank Data model across all business lines and operational / support functions
To maintain the data model in a centralized data warehouse (MS SQL 2017) which will support the overall reporting and MIS requirements of the business.
To build & deliver capabilities that would enable businesses to perform self-service around reporting, analytics and dashboard
To design and deliver predictive analytics solutions
To design and deliver capabilities for cloud-data and big-data across the bank
To ensure that the data model factors all the required business KPIs (loans, cards, Islamic and wholesale banking products) and regulatory reporting requirements which will eliminate any calculations or logic derivations in the reporting / visualization platforms
To own and be responsible for managing / supporting the overlaying reporting / visualization tools (such as Qlik, business objects, crystal reports, SSRS, power BI etc.) through best practice deployment, management and maintenance processes.
To continuously enhance / maintain / adapt the data model with the changing business and operational requirements as well as with the introduction of new systems and processes.
To be responsible for the application stacks (Application and Infrastructure) around data warehouse, reporting and the required ETL / integration tools, in terms of software versions, optimization of queries as well as relevant EOD batch processes.
To lead and direct the development and implementation of effective IT processes, services and controls around Data warehouse that help ensure the realization of the IT strategy, and enable businesses to perform self-service in terms of developing and maintaining their own reports / dashboards and perform business analytics
To participate in project / change discussions and provide input on how the centralized data model can be used to optimize processes and decision.
Supporting the control functions such as Compliance, Audit etc. in providing reactive and proactive analysis and reporting, supporting and directing data driven investigations and special projects
Responsible for enhancing data collection / extraction procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
Developing, Training and Supporting other non-technical team members in the learning of Data Science and Analytics
To participate and review the necessary activities to support the business in Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery (DR) practices.
To effectively maintain a balanced business unit in terms of Financial, Strategic, Customer Care, Operational, as well as an Organizational wellbeing perspective.
To direct, schedule and review risks and mitigation activities to help enhance internal controls.
To review ITD activities that maintain and enhance operational manuals and system documentation in area of responsibility.
To manage, schedule and review evaluation activities to continuously enhance the processes and procedures in area of responsibility to reduce incidents and help mitigate risks, through increased consistency in task execution.
To lead, manage and schedule activities to address identified audit and risk related observations
To interpret and communicate…


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