IT Data Enginering Manager

Job Description

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Job Purpose

This position exists to oversee the design, development, and maintenance of our data application technical setup. This includes managing a team of data engineers, ensuring the quality of data being collected and stored, and developing data pipelines to support data-driven decision-making using reports and dashboards.

Key Accountability Areas

• Lead a team of data engineers/Developers to design, build, and maintain data models and extracts to support reporting and analytics requirements.
• Provide leadership and guidance to team members to ensure quality deliverables and professional development opportunities.
• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data collected and stored in the data warehouse.
• Ensure adherence to best practices, management processes, and technical constraints.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business requirements for data infrastructure and develop solutions to meet those needs.
• Manage data governance policies and procedures to ensure compliance with regulations and industry best practices.
• Manage and implement data security and access controls to protect sensitive data
• Monitor and troubleshoot data technical application setup to ensure high availability and performance.
• Manage system upgrades, testing, and deployment of new features and functionality.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and technologies related to data engineering, and evaluate new tools and techniques for potential use in the organization.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification
Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering

Work Experience
10-15 years

Technical / Functional Competencies
Big Data Analytics
Corporate Data Architecture Standards
Data Migration
Data Presentation
Data Replication
Data Security
Data Standards and Procedures
Data Visualization