Director of Data

6 days ago


Riyadh, Ar Riyāḑ, Saudi Arabia Discovered MENA Full time

We are hiring a Director of Data Platforms & Intelligence in Riyadh.

Our clients platforms powers millions of users.

As they scale across the region and globally, data will become there most valuable strategic asset.

We're hiring for them a Director of Data Platforms & Intelligence, as one of there most critical leadership roles heading into 2026, owning the entire data ecosystem that powers the platform and future AI products.

If you can turn data into intelligence, revenue, and real-time decision-making, this is your role.

What You'll Lead

  • Data Platform Strategy & Architecture — build a modern, scalable ecosystem across GCP, streaming pipelines, ML enablement, and real-time analytics
  • Data Operations & Reliability — observability, SLAs, lineage, zero data loss, high-trust data for executives & partners
  • Business Intelligence — exec dashboards, advanced analytics, forecasting, KPI frameworks, decision intelligence
  • AI Enablement — feature stores, predictive models, recommendation systems, anomaly detection
  • Leadership — build and scale data engineering, BI, analytics and data ops teams

This role transforms data into a revenue-generating intelligence engine.

What You Bring

  • 15+ years across data engineering, BI, analytics, architecture, or data science leadership
  • Deep experience building enterprise-grade data platforms (GCP, BigQuery/Snowflake/ClickHouse, Kafka/PubSub, DBT, Airflow)
  • Strong BI, analytics, forecasting, KPI frameworks & executive reporting capability
  • Experience monetising data or building intelligence products
  • Expertise in ML enablement, predictive analytics, MLOps
  • Strong leadership presence + ability to influence at the executive table
  • PDPL/GDPR knowledge; security & governance expertise

Bonus: Ecom, travel, marketplace

Location:
Riyadh

Report to:
CTO



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