Director - Data

About the role

For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories.

What you'll do

• Build and lead a high-performing Data Engineering organization, establishing engineering standards, platform capabilities, operating models
• Define and own the Data and AI Engineering strategy and technology roadmap, covering data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, processing, data quality
• Lead a high-performing Data and AI Engineering organization, defining the technical leadership, engineering capabilities, career development
• Build and develop the engineering leadership team, mentoring Engineering Managers and Senior Managers and driving capability development across the function
• Own the evolution, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of the Group's enterprise data platform, including Google BigQuery, Apache Airflow, dbt, Airbyte

What you need

• Machine learning
• LLMs
• BigQuery
• Airflow
• dbt
• ETL
• MBA

Good to have

• SAP
• WMS
• CI/CD
• Test automation
• Azure
• Salesforce