Data Architect

DXC Technology is seeking an experienced Data Architect to design and govern enterprise data architecture, analytical data models, data governance, and data migration solutions in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates. Join us to build scalable and secure data solutions and define data models, integration patterns, migration strategies, data quality standards, and governance frameworks.

DXC Technology helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world's largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates.

We are looking for an experienced Data Architect to design and govern enterprise data architecture, analytical data models, data governance, and data migration solutions. The role will focus on building scalable and secure data solutions using SQL Server, SSIS, Power BI, and Python, while defining data models, integration patterns, migration strategies, data quality standards, and governance frameworks. Apply now to join our team!

Company Overview

DXC Technology helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world's largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates.

Quick Details

• Salary Range: Not Specified
• Job Type: Full-time
• Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 6+ years of relevant experience in Data Architecture and Data Management, including 2+ years in a Data Architect or similar role.

Key Responsibilities

• Own enterprise data architecture, principles, standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Design data aggregation, analytics, and reporting architectures using Microsoft SQL Server.
• Define conceptual, logical, and physical data models across multiple business and operational domains.
• Design ETL and data ingestion solutions using SSIS, database connections, APIs, and file-based integrations.
• Define Power BI semantic models, reporting architecture, dashboards, and role-based access.
• Support advanced analytics and predictive modelling using Python and scikit-learn.
• Define and govern enterprise data migration strategies and architecture.
• Develop source-to-target mappings, transformation rules, migration waves, mock migration cycles, reconciliation, cutover, and validation approaches.
• Define data cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and migration quality controls.
• Support Dynamics 365 data migration using Data Management Framework (DMF), standard data entities, and approved Excel/CSV loading patterns.
• Define data quality, classification, retention, access, privacy, security, and audit requirements.
• Produce High-Level Design (HLD), Technical Design Documents (TDD), data models, data flows, migration strategies, and architecture documentation.
• Review data engineering, data modelling, BI, analytics, and migration designs for architecture compliance.
• Collaborate with application, integration, infrastructure, security, BI, and engineering teams.
• Support data migration testing, reconciliation, cutover readiness, and operational handover.
• Identify and manage data-related architecture risks, assumptions, dependencies, and technical exceptions.
• Provide technical guidance on data architecture, analytics, and migration decisions.
• Mentor data engineers, data modellers, BI developers, and migration specialists.

Requirements

• Strong experience in enterprise Data Architecture and Data Modelling.
• Strong knowledge of conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling.
• Strong Microsoft SQL Server architecture and database design experience.
• Strong experience with SSIS for ETL, transformation, ingestion, and data loading.
• Experience designing enterprise data aggregation and analytics solutions.
• Strong experience with Power BI architecture, semantic models, dashboards, reporting, role-based security, and performance optimisation.
• Experience with data migration architecture covering discovery, mapping, transformation, cleansing, reconciliation, mock migrations, cutover, and validation.
• Experience with Dynamics 365 data migration using DMF, standard data entities, and file-based loading.
• Working knowledge of Python and scikit-learn for structured analytics and predictive modelling.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata, classification, retention, privacy, security, and access controls.
• Experience defining source-to-target mappings and data transformation rules.
• Experience with data reconciliation, validation, migration testing, and cutover.
• Experience producing HLDs, TDDs, data models, data-flow diagrams, and architecture documentation.
• Strong understanding of security-by-design and privacy-by-design principles.
• Proven experience designing multi-system enterprise data solutions and data migration architectures.
• Strong knowledge of data modelling, SQL Server, ETL, BI/reporting, analytics, and data migration.
• Experience supporting enterprise data and analytics solutions across full implementation lifecycles.
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical documentation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and architecture decision-making skills.
• Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary technical teams.

Benefits

• Opportunities for career growth within DXC Technology.
• Work on mission-critical systems for global companies.
• Gain experience in modernizing IT, data architectures, and cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with leading organizations and drive new levels of performance.
• Develop expertise in SQL Server, SSIS, Power BI, and Python.