Digital Asset Specialist

Job Requisition ID: 179370

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day

Overview Of The Role:

• The Data & Analytics Lead is pivotal in developing and executing the data and AI enablement strategy for Al-Futtaim Financial Services (AFF), Hertz, and international businesses, aligning all initiatives with the digital transformation roadmap. The role bridges business, technology, and AI innovation, focusing on creating a unified, governed, and scalable data ecosystem. By leading the design and delivery of the AI-enabled data and analytics platform, the role aims to offer product-level profitability, portfolio insights, and operational excellence. This involves driving various analytics deliveries and building an internal AI capability crucial for automation, decision intelligence, and customer insights.

What You Will Do:

Data Strategy and Enablement
•    Lead the Data & AI Enablement agenda by defining and executing the data strategy aligned with the Group CDO and Digital Transformation plan.
•    Design and deliver the AI-enabled Data platform by establishing data pipelines and governance frameworks for AFF, Hertz, and related businesses.
•    Build AI capability by developing internal data science and ML delivery capabilities for use cases like credit risk, pricing, fraud detection, and collections optimization.
Data Governance and Compliance
•    Implement policies, metadata management, lineage, and quality frameworks aligned with Group data leads.
•    Ensure data governance score achieves 95% with zero critical audit findings.
Analytics and BI Delivery
•    Drive data analytics platform adoption, ensuring implementation of executive dashboards covering profitability, equity, RoE, and self-service analytics for business teams.
•    Aim for BI adoption rate of 80% with reduction in manual reports.
Collaboration and Partnership Management
•    Collaborate with Group & Divisional teams to ensure synergy with AFS&TD, GTDP, EIB and initiatives to avoid duplication and ensure reuse of shared data assets.
•    Manage relationship with data engineering vendors, AI partners, and Group shared services (infrastructure, security) with SLA adherence of 95% and cost efficiency within budget.

Required Skills To Be Successful:

• Strong technical knowledge of Azure Data Factory, Power BI, SQL, and Fabric Lakehouse.
• Familiarity with Python and ML frameworks such as Scikit-learn and Azure ML for model deployment.
• Experience establishing and enforcing data governance towards certified data concepts, lineage, and quality frameworks.
• Deep understanding of financial product data models, including Portfolio, Profitability, and RoE.

What Equips You For The Role:

• 10+ years in Data & Analytics roles with at least 5 years in leadership capacity.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering fully AI enabled data platforms.
• Proven experience in AI/ML delivery, such as credit risk, pricing, and customer analytics, including building digital twins.
• Track record of managing data engineering and BI delivery teams, both internal and vendor.

About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate
The real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across MENA. With high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational and healthcare developments, the master developer caters to the diverse needs of cities and communities in the region. From origination, conception, development, sales, procurement and construction of mega-projects and the leasing, operation and management of these projects after completion, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (AFGRE) has been developing and managing owned landbanks, unlocking the economic potential of the region and contributing to future development for more than 40 years.
Our focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make our properties the best places to live and work, build additional products and services and enable partnerships to create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience with us.
AFGRE is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including two large scale mixed use destinations: Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.

About Al-Futtaim Malls
Al-Futtaim Malls provides development and asset management expertise, specializing in building retail-led super regional malls in prime locations across MENA and beyond. With a proven track record of creating both sustainable revenue growth and value enhancement for tenants, Al-Futtaim Malls delivers exceptional experiences and exciting shopping environments for customers.

Part of the Al-Futtaim Group, Al-Futtaim Malls leadership team brings more than 30 years of experience and a deep understanding and knowledge of the retail sector, both from a shopper’s point of view but as curators of space or landlords to other brands. The company has a directly managed portfolio including over 9 million sqft of retail space across four malls in the MENA region and two under development. Malls under the Al-Futtaim Malls portfolio include Dubai Festival City Mall and Festival Plaza in the UAE, Cairo Festival City Mall in Egypt, Doha Festival City in Qatar and Zenata Mall, Morocco.

Leveraging on the expertise of its parent company, Al-Futtaim Malls established PLEX Management Services offering a full array of services including asset management and development, leasing, and brand experience expertise to shopping mall landlords and retail organizations globally. Implementing global best practice and deploying Al-Futtaim Mall’s deep understanding of mall management and retail dynamics, PLEX promises to deliver continuous growth and long-term value for its partners.

For more information on Al-Futtaim Malls, please visit https://www.al-futtaimmalls.com/

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies
Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.
The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, Energy Management, Technology Infrastructure and Digital Transformation.
The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include, contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services.
These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.