
Aldar
Vice President – Business Intelligence and Analytics
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 07/04/2026
Job overview
Date posted
21/02/2026
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
VP/Executive
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
07/04/2026
Job description
The Vice President – Business Intelligence and Analytics at Aldar Corporate / Group Digital Futures is a senior, hands-on leader responsible for designing, building, and scaling enterprise BI and analytics capabilities. The role emphasizes delivering interactive, executive-grade Tableau dashboards for C-suite executives while enabling self-service analytics across business functions through governed datasets, semantic layers, and best practice BI frameworks. The VP defines BI standards, templates, and practices that ensure governance, data quality, and consistency in reporting. They actively build and maintain advanced dimensional and analytical data models, using SQL and Python to perform complex transformations and calculations. The role requires hands-on development of dashboards, performance optimization, and mentoring of junior BI developers. The VP serves as a technical authority for BI platforms, influencing architecture, enterprise metrics, and analytics strategies. This position ensures dashboards are trusted, explainable, and aligned with enterprise definitions, while driving analytics literacy, adoption, and governance across the organization.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain interactive Tableau dashboards for C-suite executives and senior leadership
- Optimize performance, usability, and scalability of BI dashboards and reporting
- Architect and implement self-service BI capabilities including governed datasets, certified metrics, and reusable semantic layers
- Define BI standards, templates, and best practices for enterprise-wide adoption while maintaining data quality and governance
- Develop and maintain advanced analytical and dimensional data models (star, snowflake, hybrid) optimized for BI consumption
- Write advanced SQL and Python scripts to support complex transformations, calculations, and analytical logic
- Lead, mentor, and provide technical guidance to BI developers, including code reviews and adherence to dashboard design guidelines
- Ensure dashboards and reports are trusted, explainable, and aligned with enterprise metrics and definitions
- Act as a technical authority for BI platforms, influencing architecture, best practices, and enterprise-wide BI adoption
- Drive analytics literacy and BI adoption across business functions through training, advisory, and support
Experience & skills
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in Business Intelligence, analytics engineering, or data analytics roles
- Proven experience delivering executive-level dashboards for CxOs and senior leadership with clear storytelling and decision support
- Demonstrated experience implementing self-service BI at enterprise scale with governed datasets and semantic layers
- Expert-level Tableau skills including advanced calculations, parameters, LOD expressions, and dashboard performance optimization
- Strong experience designing and maintaining analytical and dimensional data models (star, snowflake, hybrid)
- Proficiency in advanced SQL and Python for analytics and BI automation
- Experience leading and mentoring BI teams while remaining hands-on in dashboard development
- Strong understanding of BI governance, data trust, explainability, and consistency in enterprise metrics
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, with direct interaction experience with executives
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field; Master’s or BI certifications preferred