Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow\'s possible.

Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro, the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to 250,000 transactions per day. We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions, cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabi\xe2\x80\x99s airport.

JOB OBJECTIVE

As a member of the Data Delivery Service at IDS and supporting the Data Products Delivery lifecycle, you will actively contribute to data related architectures and solutions across the Enterprise.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Data as a Product - Delivery

• For each New Data Product, you will support turning business orientations into robust and performant data architecture and solutions.
• Advice and push modern data architecture patterns and solutions answering present needs and putting the Squads & Data Engineers in a position to scale considering complexity.
• Support the upfront Discovery Phases before launching a new Data Product by shaping the most relevant Data architecture & modeling approach depending on the use case

Data Practices & Platform Transformation Program

• You will be an active contributor to the IDS Data Transformation Program that targets a revamp of the way we delivery Data Products @ Thales taking into account the On Prem Data Platform Roadmap :
• Review, Validate Improve the Data Products Architecture Patterns target state
• Define & Implement Roadmap to shift from legacy Patterns to the target
• Define & Implement Data Quality Practices
• Define & Implement Data Modeling patterns (Vault, Kimball, etc.)
• Define & implement the strategy to maintain the Legacy Data & BI Products
• Define & implement the target state for Thales Domain Data Warehouses
• Define & implement the target state of Self Service BI architecture patterns
• Identify gaps and weaknesses in our data stack and continue to guide learning advancements for the Squads
• Create and implement a Master Data Management strategy to ensure data standardization, quality, and governance, and provide a single source of truth for the domains

QUALIFICATION, CERTIFICATION & EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Who you are:

• As a data expert you have a solid technical background and experience in data-intensive systems (

10 years). * Experience in a multinational Company with complex organizational ecosystem. Working in the cloud with micro-services would certainly be a plus. You already have a significant experience as a technical lead or architect (

5 years). * Experience with API Design & Development: OAuth 2.0 (JWT), Swagger, Postman, Open API Specification

• Experience working with large amount of data, Big Data processing \xe2\x80\x93 batch and streaming Kafka, Flink, Talend (Experience with any one of them would be a plus)
• Completely Comfortable Working in a highly sensitive On-Prem data environment, where security constraints are part of the adventure
• Experience with Microservices Infrastructure management for Development; working on Docker, Kubernetes, Helm/Terraform
• You have experience with architectural patterns of large-scale applications.
• You have deep knowledge and experience in databases, DataMarts, Data Modelling, Data Governance, Data Security, BI tools, ETL Solutions, Data Science, DataOps, MLOps
• You know how to work with data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, architects, product owners, top management.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Team work and willing to perform trough cooperation
• Strong attention to details
• Willingness for change and solving problem
• Be passionate about digital transformation
• Strong analytical mindset
• Data oriented
• Right mindset: Autonomous and know where and when to take decisions taking into account the constraints

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!

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