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<span>JOB PURPOSE The Senior Specialist – QA and Test Engineering will play a critical role in the Quality Assurance, Software Testing and Testing Automation practice in CBUAE and embed a robust quality assurance framework across all critical financial systems and applications, thereby ensuring the unwavering reliability, security, and integrity of national monetary policy, payment infrastructure, and regulatory oversight tools.<br> This role is paramount for mitigating systemic risks, safeguarding financial stability, and upholding public trust by implementing the efficient and effective validation of complex software, executing advanced test automation, and fostering a culture of stringent quality excellence aligned with the central bank's unique mandate to manage the nation's financial backbone and adhere to the highest standards of governance and resilience.<br> Key Responsibilities Core Responsibilities Design and Development is responsible for leading the design, development, testing and implementation of innovative solutions and services that meet business needs.<br> This role involves strategically defining and implementing the overarching quality assurance/testing vision and roadmap for all software systems, ensuring the highest standards of reliability, security, performance, and regulatory compliance for CBUAE applications, systems and infrastructure platforms.<br> Quality Assurance and Test Engineering for Financial Applications and Infrastructure: Implement the overarching QA and test engineering and automation strategy, policies, and frameworks to ensure the absolute reliability, security, and performance of all mission-critical national payment systems, monetary policy tools, and financial market infrastructure.<br> Mitigating Systemic Risk through Rigorous Testing: Establish and enforce a robust testing regime for all software systems, including comprehensive unit, systems integration, user acceptance, regression, performance, resilience, security, and disaster recovery testing, to safeguard financial stability and prevent systemic vulnerabilities from manifesting.<br> Implement Advanced Test Automation for Efficiency and Integrity: Perform the design, development, and continuous improvement of highly sophisticated test automation frameworks and practices, focusing on enhancing testing efficiency, coverage, and speed for complex, high-volume, and critical central bank applications.<br> Ensuring Regulatory Compliance and Data Integrity: Carry out testing activities and collaborate with developers to guarantee strict adherence to national and international financial regulations, internal policies, and audit requirements, ensuring impeccable data integrity, privacy, and traceability for sensitive financial information.<br> Self-Management Responsibilities Defines performance goals at the start of the year in discussion with the reporting manager and ensures that the goals are achieved during the course of the year Identifies the training and development requirements for self and agrees on them with the reporting manager to ensure that the required trainings are arranged and attended Strives to achieve the highest levels of proficiency on all the competencies and skills required to perform the role.<br> Keeps abreast of professional developments, new techniques and current issues through continued education and professional growth.<br> QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE Threshold Qualifications Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related fields.<br> Deep expertise and mastery in designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-grade test automation frameworks (e.<br>g., Tricentis, UiPath, Selenium, Appium) for various application types (web, mobile, API, desktop).<br> Strong understanding and practical experience with performance testing tools (e.<br>g., JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling) for high-volume, real-time transaction systems, and expertise in security testing methodologies and tools (e.<br>g., OWASP Top 10, penetration testing tools, vulnerability scanners) to protect against cyber threats to national financial data.<br> In-depth understanding of various SDLC models, particularly Agile and DevOps, with practical experience in integrating quality assurance processes and automation into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.<br> This includes familiarity with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps.<br> Strong SQL expertise and experience with diverse database systems (relational, NoSQL) to ensure data integrity, consistency, and accuracy across critical financial data repositories, including complex data migration and reconciliation testing.<br> Knowledge of complex enterprise system architectures, including microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud platforms (e.<br>g., Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle), along with the ability to design testing strategies that account for their unique challenges and ensure end-to-end quality.<br> In-depth understanding of the technical intricacies of core banking systems, financial market infrastructure, national payment systems (e.<br>g., RTGS, ACH), SupTech and regulatory reporting systems to design relevant and effective test scenarios.<br> Proven track record in implementing and overseeing specialized testing such as chaos engineering, blockchain testing (if applicable to central bank initiatives), big data testing, and AI/ML model validation.<br> Years & Nature of Experience Minimum of 3 years of experience in leading a Software QA and Testing team.<br> Value-add if candidate has built a QA and Test team from scratch.<br> Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in performing Software QA and Testing or any related roles.<br> Extensive hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-grade test automation frameworks for front-end and back-end applications.<br> Understanding of test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD) and how to implement them with software engineers.<br> Proficiency in programming languages like Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript for automation scripting and framework development.<br> Proficiency in Agile development and DevSecOps practices to ensure rapid iteration and responsiveness to changing requirements.<br> Relevant professional certifications in QA and software testing tools and platforms will be an advantage.<br> Competencies Behavioural Drives High Performance: Assigns challenging goals for self and team and ensures efficient delivery, keeping in mind the objectives, goals and vision for the department and organization.<br> Manages Stakeholders: Builds and maintains professional networks and personal relationships with relevant stakeholders who are, or might become, important in ensuring individual as well as organisational success.<br> Innovates and Steers Change: Prioritises creativity and innovation, striving to constantly come up with better or unique ways of doing things.<br> Remains focused and optimistic through challenging situations, adapting quickly and demonstrating agility to changing circumstances to deliver required objectives.<br> Builds Capability: Believes in the capability of oneself and others and invests in strengthening them.<br> Provides resources and support required for individuals to develop critical skill and knowledge to achieve their full potential.<br> Driving Business Value: Reviews situations, opportunities, plans and information in great detail measuring impact on business success.<br> Identifies potential setbacks and creates risk mitigation strategies to reduce risk of failure.<br> Technical Software Testing: Understanding of software testing principles and practices, including unit testing, integration testing and automated testing.<br> Programming Languages: Proficiency in two or more programming languages.<br> Development Frameworks and Libraries: Familiarity with development frameworks and libraries relevant to their programming languages.<br> Software Development Methodologies: Understanding of different software development methodologies like waterfall, scrum, agile.<br> Database Management: Relational Databases, Database Design and Optimization, Data modeling, indexing, query optimization.<br> Debugging and Troubleshooting: Strong debugging skills to identify issues in software applications and design test cases to simulate and resolve those issues.<br></span> </div>
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<p>Wood is currently inviting expressions of interest for a Specialist Integrity Engineer to join our team in Abu Dhabi. This is a client secondment role supporting one of our major energy sector clients, with an assignment duration of three years.</p><br><p>The Specialist Integrity Engineer will provide subject matter expertise in asset integrity management, risk-based inspection and fitness-for-service assessment, supporting the development and implementation of integrity management programmes across a large and complex portfolio of onshore oil and gas facilities.</p><br><p>The role will focus on the delivery of integrity assessments, integrity operating windows, risk-based inspection methodologies, asset life extension studies and specialist technical investigations to support the safe, reliable and efficient operation of client assets.</p><br><p>The successful candidate will work as part of an integrated client team, providing technical leadership, mentoring engineering personnel and ensuring alignment with international best practice and industry standards.</p><br><p><strong>Our Clients and Projects </strong></p><br><p><strong>Designing the future. Transforming the world.</strong></p><br><p>Our Technical Consulting and Decarbonization teams combine consultancy solutions with technical expertise to support our client’s capital investment decisions across the global energy and materials markets.</p><br><p>From advisory (front end studies, concept design and strategic planning) to design (FEED, detailed design and owner’s engineer) through to delivery (project management consulting), we lead our clients to the best possible outcomes. Not forgetting our world-leading subsea, decarbonisation, new energies, asset optimization and technology development expertise, our ability to add value to our clients' portfolios and projects knows no bounds.</p><br><p><strong>What we can offer</strong></p><br><ul> <li><strong>Meaningful and interesting projects: </strong>Delivered to high profile clients across the Energy Sector</li> <li><strong>Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: </strong>We are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business </li> <li><strong>Competitive renumeration packag</strong>e: With regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market </li> <li><strong>Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient, </strong>and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment</li> <li><strong>Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance:</strong> The company provides Life Assurance cover</li> <li><strong>End of Service Gratuity:</strong> In line with UAE Labor Law, all employees are eligible for an End of Service benefit</li> <li><strong>The Employee Share Plan:</strong> Gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company</li> <li><strong>Long Service Award: </strong>Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years’ service of our employees at 5 year service milestones</li> <li>Commitment to continued professional development: Development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests </li> <li><strong>Global connections</strong>: Join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession </li> <li><strong>Energy Transition Academy:</strong> Join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems – delivered by experts in their field</li></ul><br> Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies. www.woodgroup.com<br> <b>Diversity Statement </b><br> We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br><ul> <li>Lead the development and implementation of asset integrity management programmes for client operating assets.</li> <li>Provide specialist technical expertise in Risk-Based Inspection (RBI), Fitness-for-Service (FFS), asset life assessment and integrity management.</li> <li>Lead the development and enhancement of RBI methodologies and associated risk models.</li> <li>Support the development and implementation of Integrity Operating Windows (IOW) programmes.</li> <li>Perform and review Fitness-for-Service (FFS) assessments in accordance with recognised industry standards.</li> <li>Lead technical studies including root cause analysis (RCA), life extension studies and integrity assessments.</li> <li>Facilitate technical workshops, integrity reviews and stakeholder engagement sessions with client personnel.</li> <li>Review degradation mechanisms, risk assessments and inspection strategies for fixed equipment, piping and associated facilities.</li> <li>Develop technical reports, corporate procedures, manuals and engineering recommendations.</li> <li>Provide mentoring and technical guidance to engineers and integrity personnel.</li> <li>Support implementation of recommendations and monitoring of integrity performance.</li></ul><br>Qualifications:<br><p><strong>What makes you remarkable? </strong></p><br><p>At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges. </p><br><p><strong>Expected: </strong></p><br><ul> <li>Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Metallurgy or related discipline.</li> <li>Master's Degree or PhD preferred.</li> <li>API 571 and API 580 certifications.</li> <li>API 510, API 570 and/or API 653 certifications preferred.</li> <li>ISO 55001 Asset Management awareness/implementation training.</li> </ul><p>Personal attributes:</p><br><ul> <li>Strong technical leadership capability.</li> <li>Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.</li> <li>Effective communicator with strong client-facing experience.</li> <li>Safety-focused with commitment to technical excellence.</li> <li>Self-motivated and capable of working within multidisciplinary teams.</li> <li>Strong mentoring and coaching capability.</li></ul><p>Knowledge, Skills and Experience:</p><br><ul> <li>Minimum 15 years' experience in integrity engineering, inspection or asset integrity management within oil and gas, petrochemical or related process industries, including at least 5 years in a specialist or technical authority role.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience developing and implementing integrity management frameworks, risk assessment methodologies and inspection strategies.</li> <li>Extensive experience delivering Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) programmes and integrity assessments.</li> <li>Practical experience conducting or reviewing Fitness-for-Service (FFS) assessments in accordance with API 579.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience developing Integrity Operating Windows (IOW) and inspection planning strategies.</li> <li>Strong understanding of degradation mechanisms affecting pressure equipment, piping systems and infrastructure assets.</li> <li>Familiarity with major regional operators' standards, procedures and asset integrity practices is highly desirable.</li> <li>Previous experience supporting National Oil Companies (NOCs), major international operators or large operating assets in the Middle East preferred.</li> <li>Excellent technical writing, presentation and stakeholder management skills.</li></ul> </div>
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<p>Wood is currently inviting expressions of interest for a Specialist Corrosion Engineer to join our team in Abu Dhabi. This is a client secondment role supporting one of our major energy sector clients, with an assignment duration of three years.</p><br><p>The Specialist Corrosion Engineer will provide subject matter expertise in corrosion and materials engineering, supporting the development and implementation of asset integrity and corrosion management programmes across a large and complex portfolio of onshore oil and gas facilities.</p><br><p>The role will focus on the delivery of corrosion risk assessments, corrosion management frameworks, integrity operating windows, risk-based inspection methodologies and specialist technical studies to support safe, reliable and efficient operation of client assets.</p><br><p>The successful candidate will work as part of an integrated client team, providing technical leadership, mentoring engineering personnel and ensuring alignment with international best practice and industry standards.</p><br><p><strong>Our Clients and Projects </strong></p><br><p><strong>Designing the future. Transforming the world.</strong></p><br><p>Our Technical Consulting and Decarbonization teams combine consultancy solutions with technical expertise to support our client’s capital investment decisions across the global energy and materials markets.</p><br><p>From advisory (front end studies, concept design and strategic planning) to design (FEED, detailed design and owner’s engineer) through to delivery (project management consulting), we lead our clients to the best possible outcomes. Not forgetting our world-leading subsea, decarbonisation, new energies, asset optimization and technology development expertise, our ability to add value to our clients' portfolios and projects knows no bounds.</p><br><p><strong>What we can offer</strong></p><br><ul> <li><strong>Meaningful and interesting projects: </strong>Delivered to high profile clients across the Energy Sector</li> <li><strong>Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: </strong>We are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business </li> <li><strong>Competitive renumeration packag</strong>e: With regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market </li> <li><strong>Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient, </strong>and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment</li> <li><strong>Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance:</strong> The company provides Life Assurance cover</li> <li><strong>End of Service Gratuity:</strong> In line with UAE Labor Law, all employees are eligible for an End of Service benefit</li> <li><strong>The Employee Share Plan:</strong> Gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company</li> <li><strong>Long Service Award: </strong>Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years’ service of our employees at 5 year service milestones</li> <li>Commitment to continued professional development: Development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests </li> <li><strong>Global connections</strong>: Join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession </li> <li><strong>Energy Transition Academy:</strong> Join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems – delivered by experts in their field</li></ul><br> Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies. www.woodgroup.com<br> <b>Diversity Statement </b><br> We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br><ul> <li>Lead the development and implementation of corrosion management and mitigation programmes for client operating assets.</li> <li>Provide specialist technical expertise in corrosion engineering, material selection, corrosion monitoring, coatings and cathodic protection.</li> <li>Lead Corrosion Risk Assessment Studies (CRAS) and support Integrity Operating Window (IOW) development initiatives.</li> <li>Review and optimise corrosion control measures including coatings, cathodic protection systems, corrosion monitoring programmes, probes, coupons and chemical treatment systems.</li> <li>Support enhancement of Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) methodologies and integration with asset integrity management programmes.</li> <li>Act as technical authority for corrosion-related fitness-for-service (FFS), root cause analysis (RCA) and life extension studies.</li> <li>Facilitate workshops, technical reviews and stakeholder engagement sessions with client personnel.</li> <li>Evaluate corrosion threats, degradation mechanisms and damage mechanisms in accordance with API 571 and associated industry standards.</li> <li>Develop technical reports, corporate procedures, manuals and engineering recommendations.</li> <li>Provide mentoring and technical guidance to engineers and integrity personnel.</li> <li>Support implementation of recommendations and monitoring of corrosion mitigation effectiveness.</li></ul><br>Qualifications:<br><p><strong>What makes you remarkable? </strong></p><br><p>At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges. </p><br><p><strong>Expected: </strong></p><br><ul> <li>Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Corrosion Engineering, Metallurgy or related discipline.</li> <li>Master's Degree or PhD preferred.</li> <li>AMPP/NACE Corrosion Specialist certification.</li> <li>AMPP/NACE Cathodic Protection certification (Level 2 or 3) advantageous.</li> <li>API 571 and API 580 certification strongly preferred.</li> <li>API 510, API 570 or API 653 certification strongly preferred.</li> <li>Training or experience aligned with ISO 55001 Asset Management.</li></ul><p>Personal attributes:</p><br><ul> <li>Strong technical leadership capability.</li> <li>Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.</li> <li>Effective communicator with strong client-facing experience.</li> <li>Safety-focused with commitment to technical excellence.</li> <li>Self-motivated and capable of working within multidisciplinary teams.</li> <li>Strong mentoring and coaching capability.</li></ul><p>Knowledge, Skills and Experience:</p><br><ul> <li>Minimum 15 years' experience in corrosion and materials engineering within oil and gas, petrochemical or related process industries, including at least 5 years in a specialist or technical authority role.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience in the development and implementation of corrosion management frameworks, risk assessment methodologies and integrity management systems.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience delivering Corrosion Risk Assessment Studies (CRAS) and supporting Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) programmes.</li> <li>Experience developing or supporting Integrity Operating Window (IOW) programmes and associated monitoring frameworks.</li> <li>Extensive knowledge of corrosion monitoring technologies and mitigation strategies.</li> <li>Strong understanding of damage mechanisms affecting fixed equipment and piping systems.</li> <li>Practical experience supporting Fitness-for-Service assessments in accordance with API 579.</li> <li>Familiarity with major regional operators standards, procedures and asset integrity practices is highly desirable.</li> <li>Previous experience supporting National Oil Companies (NOCs), major international operators or large operating assets in the Middle East preferred.</li></ul><p>Excellent technical writing, presentation and stakeholder management skills.</p><br> </div>
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<span>Job Description – Lead Infrastructure, Cloud & Network Engineer Position Title: Lead Infrastructure, Cloud & Network Engineer Experience Level: 5–8 Years Location: Dubai Department: Information Technology (IT) Job Summary We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Infrastructure, Cloud & Network Engineer to manage, support, and optimize the organization's on-premises, cloud, and network infrastructure.<br> The ideal candidate will possess strong L2 and L3 support expertise across Microsoft technologies, enterprise networking, virtualization, security, backup solutions, and cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).<br> The role is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, security, scalability, and reliability of the company's IT infrastructure and network environments while supporting business-critical systems and leading technology transformation initiatives.<br> Key Responsibilities Infrastructure Administration Manage and maintain enterprise IT infrastructure environments.<br> Administer Windows Server environments and related services.<br> Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, and capacity.<br> Manage operating system upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.<br> Ensure adherence to IT governance, security, and operational standards.<br> Active Directory & Identity Management Administer Active Directory, Organizational Units (OUs), DNS, DHCP, DFS, and Group Policies (GPOs).<br> Manage Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and Azure AD Connect.<br> Implement and support Identity and Access Management (IAM).<br> Support Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).<br> Manage user provisioning, permissions, and security policies.<br> Microsoft 365 Administration Administer and support: o Exchange Online o Microsoft Teams o SharePoint Online o OneDrive for Business o Microsoft Intune o Microsoft Defender o Microsoft Purview (Preferred) Manage Microsoft 365 licensing and group-based licensing.<br> Troubleshoot mail flow, collaboration, synchronization, and security-related issues.<br> Support Microsoft 365 security, compliance, and governance initiatives.<br> Page 2 of 6 Network Administration & Operations LAN/WAN/WLAN Management Manage and maintain enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, and Internet connectivity.<br> Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Layer 2 and Layer 3 network devices.<br> Administer switches, routers, wireless controllers, and network appliances.<br> Ensure network availability, reliability, and performance across multiple locations.<br> Perform network capacity planning and bandwidth optimization.<br> Switching Technologies VLANs Trunking STP, RSTP, MSTP EtherChannel / LACP Port Security MAC Address Management Routing Technologies Static Routing Inter-VLAN Routing Policy-Based Routing OSPF BGP (Preferred) EIGRP (Preferred) Wireless & Connectivity Manage enterprise wireless infrastructure and controllers.<br> Troubleshoot network performance and connectivity issues.<br> Manage IP addressing, subnetting, redundancy, and failover mechanisms.<br> Cloud Infrastructure Administration Microsoft Azure Manage Azure Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, and Virtual Networks.<br> Configure VPN Gateways, Network Security Groups (NSGs), and hybrid connectivity.<br> Administer Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.<br> Support Azure networking and security services.<br> Optimize Azure resource utilization and costs.<br> Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Administer OCI Compute, Storage, Networking, and Security services.<br> Manage Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN), Route Tables, Security Lists, and Load Balancers.<br> Configure OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM).<br> Support OCI Backup, Monitoring, and Disaster Recovery solutions.<br> Participate in cloud migration and modernization projects.<br> Security Administration Manage Network security controls.<br> Implement cybersecurity best practices and hardening standards.<br> Investigate, troubleshoot, and mitigate infrastructure and network security incidents.<br> Support compliance requirements and governance initiatives.<br> Manage Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPN solutions.<br> Page 3 of 6 Virtualization & Datacenter Management Manage VMware vSphere / ESXi environments.<br> Provision and maintain virtual machines.<br> Support high availability and disaster recovery configurations.<br> Optimize infrastructure resources and performance.<br> Perform datacenter capacity planning.<br> Storage & Backup Administration Administer enterprise storage solutions: o NetApp o QNAP o HPE MSA o SAN/NAS Platforms Manage: o Veeam Backup & Replication o Azure Backup o Microsoft 365 Backup Solutions o OCI Perform backup validation, restoration testing, and disaster recovery exercises.<br> Maintain recovery documentation and procedures.<br> Endpoint Management Manage Microsoft Intune and modern device management solutions.<br> Deploy security baselines, compliance policies, and endpoint controls.<br> Manage Windows device lifecycle and patching activities.<br> Support desktop and laptop infrastructure.<br> Monitoring & Troubleshooting Monitor infrastructure and network environments using: o SolarWinds o Azure Monitor o OCI Monitoring Perform root cause analysis for major incidents.<br> Resolve escalated L2 and L3 infrastructure and network issues.<br> Maintain incident, problem, and change management records.<br> Coordinate with vendors and service providers for complex issue resolution.<br> Projects, Documentation & Compliance Lead infrastructure, cloud, and network deployment projects.<br> Support branch office setup and connectivity deployments.<br> Maintain network and infrastructure diagrams.<br> Develop and maintain technical documentation and SOPs.<br> Participate in business continuity and disaster recovery planning.<br> Evaluate and recommend new technologies and improvements.<br> Page 4 of 6 Required Technical Skills Microsoft Technologies Windows Server 2016/2019/2022 Active Directory Entra ID (Azure AD) Azure AD Connect DNS DHCP DFS Group Policy PowerShell Microsoft 365 Exchange Online SharePoint Online OneDrive for Business Microsoft Teams Intune Defender Purview (Preferred) Networking TCP/IP DNS DHCP NAT VLANs VPN Technologies OSPF BGP (Preferred) SD-WAN Wireless Infrastructure Network Vendors Cisco Fortinet Aruba HPE Check Point Cloud Platforms Microsoft Azure Azure Administration Virtual Machines Virtual Networks VPN Gateways NSGs Azure Backup Azure Site Recovery Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) OCI Compute OCI Networking OCI IAM OCI Storage OCI Backup & Recovery OCI Monitoring Page 5 of 6 Virtualization VMware vSphere / ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V Backup & Storage Veeam Backup & Replication NetApp QNAP HPE MSA Automation PowerShell Scripting Task Automation Infrastructure Automation Required Qualifications Education Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, or a related field.<br> Experience 5–8 years of experience in Infrastructure and Network Engineering.<br> Strong L2/L3 troubleshooting experience.<br> Experience supporting enterprise multi-site environments.<br> Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 administration.<br> Experience managing Azure and OCI environments.<br> Experience with virtualization, backup, networking, and security technologies.<br> Preferred Certifications Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700) Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert Networking CCNA CCNP Enterprise Fortinet NSE Certification Aruba Certified Professional Oracle OCI Architect Associate OCI Architect Professional Virtualization & Backup VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) Key Competencies Strong Infrastructure, Cloud, and Network troubleshooting skills.<br> Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.<br> Strong communication and documentation skills.<br> Ability to manage critical incidents under pressure.<br> Project implementation and leadership experience.<br> Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills.<br> Ability to work independently and within cross-functional teams.<br> Capability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.<br></span> </div>
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<ul><li>Lead and manage the Civil Design Section for EPC substation projects.</li><li>Plan, organize, and monitor civil engineering activities throughout the project lifecycle.</li><li>Review, approve, and authorize all civil engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, and technical documents before client submission.</li><li>Ensure compliance with project specifications, utility requirements, applicable international standards, and local authority regulations.</li><li>Develop engineering execution plans, design schedules, and resource allocation plans.</li><li>Supervise the design of:<ul><li>Substation control buildings</li><li>GIS and AIS equipment foundations</li><li>Power transformer foundations</li><li>Reactor and capacitor foundations</li><li>Cable trenches</li><li>Underground utility networks</li><li>Internal roads and pavements</li><li>Drainage systems</li><li>Oil containment pits</li><li>Firewater tanks</li><li>Boundary walls and security fencing</li><li>Site grading and earthworks</li><li>Steel structure foundations</li></ul></li><li>Ensure constructability, maintainability, and cost-effective engineering solutions.</li><li>Lead value engineering initiatives to optimize project costs without compromising quality or safety.</li><li>Coordinate with Electrical, Structural, Mechanical, Protection & Control, Telecom, BIM, Procurement, and Construction teams.</li><li>Participate in interdisciplinary design reviews and engineering coordination meetings.</li><li>Liaise with clients, consultants, utility companies, subcontractors, and local authorities regarding technical matters.</li><li>Review vendor drawings and ensure compatibility with civil design requirements.</li><li>Monitor engineering progress against project schedules.</li><li>Identify engineering risks and implement mitigation measures.</li><li>Provide technical support during procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and project close-out.</li><li>Resolve site technical queries (TQs), RFIs, and engineering deviations.</li><li>Participate in factory acceptance tests (FAT) and site inspections when required.</li><li>Ensure engineering deliverables comply with:<ul><li>IEC Standards</li><li>BS Standards</li><li>Eurocodes</li><li>ACI</li><li>AISC</li><li>ASTM</li><li>ASCE</li><li>Client specifications</li><li>Company engineering procedures</li></ul></li><li>Conduct design verification and internal technical reviews.</li><li>Ensure engineering documents are issued according to project document control procedures.</li><li>Implement lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives.</li></ul> <ul><li>Bachelor's degree in civil engineering.</li><li>Master's Degree in Structural or Civil Engineering is an advantage.</li><li>Professional Engineer (PE) or equivalent certification is preferred.</li><li>Minimum <strong>12–15 years</strong> of civil engineering experience.</li><li>Minimum <strong>5 years</strong> in a supervisory or section head role.</li><li>Extensive experience in <strong>EPC High Voltage Substation projects (132kV, 220kV, 400kV)</strong>.</li><li>Strong experience with utility clients such as <strong>TAQA, DEWA, TRANSCO, ADNOC, SEC, or similar</strong> is highly desirable.</li><li>Proven experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams.</li></ul> </div>
Techno-Functional Consultant – Enterprise AI / Generative AI Architect Confidential Company
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<section><p class="heading jdMain">Job Description</p><p class="heading">Roles & Responsibilities</p><div class="paragraph"><p>AI Strategy & Executive Advisory</p><ul><li><p>Serve as the trusted AI advisor to C-Level executives and senior</p></li></ul><p>business leaders.</p><ul><li><p>Translate complex business challenges into practical AI transformation</p></li></ul><p>strategies.</p><ul><li><p>Conduct AI maturity assessments, opportunity identification and</p></li></ul><p>business value assessments.</p><ul><li><p>Develop enterprise AI roadmaps and investment strategies.</p></li><li><p>Facilitate executive workshops and design-thinking sessions.</p></li><li><p>Present compelling AI business cases to executive committees and</p></li></ul><p>steering boards.</p><ul><li><p>Define enterprise AI operating models and governance frameworks.</p></li><li><p>Establish Responsible AI principles aligned with global standards.</p></li></ul><br><p>Enterprise Solution Architecture</p><p>Design scalable enterprise AI platforms including:</p><ul><li><p>Large Language Models (LLMs)</p></li><li><p>Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)</p></li><li><p>AI Agents & Agentic AI</p></li><li><p>Multi-Agent Systems</p></li><li><p>Multi-modal AI</p></li><li><p>Knowledge Management Platforms</p></li><li><p>Intelligent Search</p></li><li><p>Enterprise Copilots</p></li><li><p>Conversational AI</p></li><li><p>AI Automation Platforms</p></li></ul><br><p>Architect solutions knowledge, such as:</p><ul><li><p>Cloud-native AI platforms</p></li><li><p>Hybrid AI environments</p></li><li><p>Secure enterprise AI</p></li><li><p>API-driven architectures</p></li><li><p>Microservices</p></li></ul><p>Produce:</p><ul><li><p>Solution Architecture Documents</p></li><li><p>Technical Design Documents</p></li><li><p>Enterprise Reference Architectures</p></li><li><p>Integration Designs</p></li><li><p>AI Security ModelsTechnical Delivery</p></li></ul><p>Lead the development of:</p><ul><li><p>AI Proof of Concepts</p></li><li><p>Minimum Viable Products</p></li><li><p>Production AI Applications</p></li><li><p>Enterprise Chatbots</p></li><li><p>Intelligent Assistants</p></li><li><p>Knowledge Retrieval Platforms</p></li><li><p>Document Intelligence Solutions</p></li><li><p>AI Workflow Automation</p></li></ul><p>Hands-on responsibilities include:</p><ul><li><p>Prompt Engineering</p></li><li><p>Model Evaluation</p></li><li><p>Fine Tuning</p></li><li><p>Vector Database Design</p></li><li><p>RAG Pipeline Development</p></li><li><p>AI Agent Development</p></li><li><p>Model Deployment</p></li><li><p>API Development</p></li><li><p>AI Performance Optimisation</p></li></ul><p>Machine Learning & Data Science</p><p>Lead teams developing:</p><ul><li><p>Predictive Analytics</p></li><li><p>Classification Models</p></li><li><p>Forecasting Models</p></li><li><p>Recommendation Engines</p></li><li><p>NLP Solutions</p></li><li><p>Computer Vision</p></li><li><p>Time Series Analysis</p></li><li><p>Feature Engineering</p></li><li><p>Data Preparation</p></li><li><p>Model Validation</p></li><li><p>Model Monitoring</p></li></ul><p>AI Engineering & MLOps</p><p>Design and manage enterprise AI deployment pipelines including:</p><ul><li><p>CI/CD</p></li><li><p>Model Registry</p></li><li><p>Experiment Tracking</p></li><li><p>Feature Stores</p></li><li><p>Model Monitoring</p></li></ul><br><p>Engage with C-suite executives</p><ul><li><p>Work alongside Enterprise Architects</p></li><li><p>Guide Data Scientists and ML Engineers</p></li><li><p>Mentor Development Teams</p></li><li><p>Coordinate with Cloud Architects</p></li><li><p>Collaborate with Cyber Security teams</p></li><li><p>Support Project Managers and PMOs</p></li><li><p>Lead client workshops</p></li></ul></div></section><section><p class="heading">Desired Candidate Profile</p><p class="paragraph"></p><p>Essential:</p><ul><li><p>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial</p></li></ul><p>Intelligence, Data Science, Information Systems or a related discipline.</p><p>Preferred:</p><ul><li><p>Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer</p></li></ul><p>Science or Data Science.</p><ul><li><p>MBA (advantageous for senior consulting roles).</p></li></ul><p>Appropriate Certifications</p><p></p></section>
<p>Job Overview</p><p>A leading industrial ecosystem in the UAE is seeking an experienced <strong>Head of Business Development</strong> to drive revenue growth, tenant acquisition and market expansion.</p><p>The role combines strategic commercial leadership with practical knowledge of metal fabrication, industrial leasing and storage operations. The successful candidate will identify, structure, negotiate and close commercially viable opportunities aligned with the organisation’s industrial ecosystem strategy.</p><p>Strong knowledge of metal fabrication processes—including cutting, bending, welding, galvanising, surface treatment and storage logistics—is essential for assessing prospective tenants and developing suitable commercial solutions.</p><p>Role Purpose</p><p>Drive revenue growth, tenant acquisition and market expansion by identifying, structuring and closing commercially viable opportunities aligned with the organisation’s industrial ecosystem and long-term growth strategy.</p><p>Key Accountabilities</p><p>1. Business Development Strategy</p><ul><li><p>Define and execute the business-development strategy in line with revenue, occupancy and market-growth targets.</p></li><li><p>Identify priority market segments, prospective tenants, industrial clients and strategic partners.</p></li><li><p>Develop market-entry and customer-acquisition plans for the UAE and regional markets.</p></li><li><p>Identify new revenue opportunities through industrial leasing, value-added services, shared facilities and strategic partnerships.</p></li><li><p>Conduct market research, competitor analysis and commercial opportunity assessments.</p></li></ul><p>2. Deal Structuring and Execution</p><ul><li><p>Lead the commercial structuring, negotiation and closure of tenancy agreements, service agreements and partnership arrangements.</p></li><li><p>Develop commercially viable proposals based on customer requirements, infrastructure capacity and internal commercial guidelines.</p></li><li><p>Negotiate pricing, contract terms, service scope and commercial conditions.</p></li><li><p>Prepare commercial feasibility studies and support the evaluation of investment returns.</p></li><li><p>Ensure opportunities progress efficiently from initial engagement through commercial closure.</p></li></ul><p>3. Tenant and Client Acquisition</p><ul><li><p>Identify and acquire high-value tenants and clients from the metal fabrication, steel, galvanising, manufacturing and industrial-storage sectors.</p></li><li><p>Build strategic relationships with fabricators, contractors, steel traders, manufacturers, industrial investors and storage operators.</p></li><li><p>Lead customer-acquisition campaigns and business-development engagements.</p></li><li><p>Represent the organisation at exhibitions, trade missions, industry forums and networking events.</p></li><li><p>Maintain consistent engagement with prospective clients throughout the sales and negotiation cycle.</p></li></ul><p>4. Technical and Industry Engagement</p><ul><li><p>Demonstrate strong understanding of industrial workflows, including laser cutting, press braking, welding, galvanising, surface finishing and storage logistics.</p></li><li><p>Assess the technical and operational suitability of prospective tenants and proposed industrial activities.</p></li><li><p>Evaluate the compatibility of incoming activities with available infrastructure, utilities and facility capacity.</p></li><li><p>Engage with contractors, manufacturers and industrial operators to communicate the organisation’s ecosystem advantages.</p></li><li><p>Coordinate technical clarifications with relevant internal departments before commercial commitments are finalised.</p></li></ul><p>5. Cross-Functional Coordination</p><ul><li><p>Work closely with Relationship Management, Logistics, Processing, Legal and Finance teams to support tenant onboarding and delivery readiness.</p></li><li><p>Ensure commercial terms are properly communicated to the relevant internal stakeholders.</p></li><li><p>Coordinate internal reviews of pricing, technical requirements, legal conditions and operational feasibility.</p></li><li><p>Support Relationship Management during the onboarding and commercial handover process.</p></li><li><p>Ensure a clear handover from business development to the responsible post-sale and operational teams.</p></li></ul><p>6. Pipeline and Performance Management</p><ul><li><p>Build and manage a structured business-development pipeline.</p></li><li><p>Maintain accurate opportunity records, deal stages, expected revenue and closure timelines.</p></li><li><p>Prepare revenue forecasts, pipeline reports and risk assessments for management.</p></li><li><p>Monitor conversion rates, lead quality, pipeline movement and deal-cycle performance.</p></li><li><p>Track actual performance against agreed revenue and occupancy targets.</p></li><li><p>Use CRM, ERP, business-intelligence tools and digital platforms to support reporting and decision-making.</p></li></ul><p>7. Partnership and Ecosystem Development</p><ul><li><p>Develop relationships with industrial authorities, free-zone entities, regulatory stakeholders and trade associations.</p></li><li><p>Establish alliances with fabrication companies, galvanising units, storage operators and strategic service providers.</p></li><li><p>Identify opportunities for cross-selling and collaboration across the industrial ecosystem.</p></li><li><p>Support the development of partnerships that contribute to occupancy, revenue and long-term business growth.</p></li></ul><p>Key Performance Indicators</p><p>Performance will be measured against the following principal indicators:</p><ul><li><p>Revenue generated.</p></li><li><p>Occupancy rate across production and storage facilities.</p></li><li><p>Lead-to-deal conversion rate.</p></li><li><p>Total qualified pipeline value.</p></li><li><p>Average deal-cycle time.</p></li><li><p>Number and value of tenancy and service agreements closed.</p></li><li><p>Forecast accuracy.</p></li><li><p>New tenant and client acquisition.</p></li><li><p>Commercial margin and quality of concluded deals.</p></li></ul><p>Functional Boundaries</p><p>The Role Owns</p><ul><li><p>Revenue generation.</p></li><li><p>Business-development strategy execution.</p></li><li><p>Tenant and client acquisition.</p></li><li><p>Deal structuring.</p></li><li><p>Commercial negotiation.</p></li><li><p>Deal closing.</p></li><li><p>Business-development pipeline management.</p></li><li><p>Revenue forecasting and opportunity tracking.</p></li></ul><p>The Role Supports</p><ul><li><p>Relationship Management during tenant onboarding and commercial handover.</p></li><li><p>Marketing through market intelligence, campaign feedback and lead-quality analysis.</p></li><li><p>Internal teams in assessing the commercial and technical suitability of opportunities.</p></li><li><p>Management in feasibility evaluation and strategic business-growth planning.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>Qualifications and Experience</p><ul><li><p>Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration or a related discipline.</p></li><li><p>MBA or postgraduate qualification in Business Development, Strategy or a related field is preferred.</p></li><li><p>Minimum of <strong>10–15 years of business-development experience</strong> within metal fabrication, steel, industrial leasing, industrial storage or a related sector.</p></li><li><p>Minimum of <strong>8 years of experience in a leadership role</strong>.</p></li><li><p>Proven track record of revenue generation, industrial client acquisition and commercial deal closure.</p></li><li><p>Experience negotiating tenancy agreements, service agreements and industrial contracts.</p></li><li><p>Experience working with industrial project clients, manufacturers, investors and regulatory stakeholders.</p></li></ul><p>Required Skills and Competencies</p><ul><li><p>Strategic business development and market expansion.</p></li><li><p>Revenue generation and commercial ownership.</p></li><li><p>Advanced negotiation and contract structuring.</p></li><li><p>Industrial leasing and tenancy structuring.</p></li><li><p>Strong understanding of metal fabrication and industrial-storage markets.</p></li><li><p>Financial analysis, feasibility assessment and project ROI evaluation.</p></li><li><p>Pipeline management, forecasting and revenue tracking.</p></li><li><p>Market intelligence and competitor analysis.</p></li><li><p>Stakeholder management and influencing skills.</p></li><li><p>Strong leadership and team-management capability.</p></li><li><p>Executive communication and presentation skills.</p></li><li><p>Knowledge of UAE industrial regulations and commercial practices.</p></li><li><p>Proficiency in CRM, ERP, business-intelligence tools and Microsoft Office.</p></li><li><p>Ability to use data analytics, automation and technology-driven solutions for lead generation, pipeline management and business growth.</p></li></ul><p>Candidate Profile</p><p>The ideal candidate will be a commercially driven and technically knowledgeable business-development leader with the ability to convert industrial opportunities into sustainable revenue.</p><p>The candidate must be confident in engaging senior stakeholders, understanding industrial requirements, structuring complex commercial arrangements and closing high-value agreements. The role requires a disciplined focus on revenue generation and deal execution while ensuring an effective handover to Relationship Management and operational teams after closure.</p>
Job Description<br><br>The Behavioral Technician will provide clinical skills instruction and behavior reduction protocols based upon the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis to children with Autism and related developmental disabilities in the home, community, and school settings.<br><br>Responsibilities<br><br>Provide direct client care in 1:1 and group settings utilizing a combination of intensive teaching and natural environment training arrangements. Follow the prescribed behavioral skill acquisition and behavior reduction protocols. Collect, record, and summarize data on observable client behavior. Writing behavior support plans, collecting data and conducting functional assessments, communicating with teachers, parents, family members and caregivers, working with clients one-on-one or in a group in a home or center setting Assist with parent and caregiver training in line with client’s individualized treatment and behavior reduction protocols. Effectively communicate with parents and caregivers regarding client progress as instructed by the Board Certified Behavior Analyst BCBA. Utilize safe & appropriate handing procedures when working with clients. Maintain client confidentiality. Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work and therapy environment. Assume Lead Behavioral Technician responsibilities in their absence. Collaborate with treatment team including client, parents and caregivers, outside professionals, Lead Behavioral Technician, ABA Interns, and co-workers. Maintain and acquire technical knowledge by attending required trainings. Ensuring compliance with all safety and quality control programs and procedures as applicable Ensuring compliance with applicable precautions for environmental safety, infection control, using a series of interventions that minimize or prevent cross infection Maintaining and assisting in enforcing the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded Complying and ensuring that those directly supervised comply with occupational health and safety at work policies and procedures Assisting in the planning and developing policies that guide the service implementation process Practicing within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures Ensuring that SOP (standard operation procedures) and Quality Assurance tests are maintained within all sections Education Participating in training and education sessions for department staff, doctors and nurses. teaching, induction, peer review, case studies, and clinical presentations Participating in department programs/committees, various hospital committees, and staff meetings Ensuring appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures Maintaining professional knowledge by attending lectures, seminars or on-line education units Completing and maintaining all regulatory requirements including: licensure and certification and other mandatory training within established time frames Ensuring all members of the department receive adequate clinical supervision as required for their professional and technical development <br><br>Qualifications<br><br>Qualification :-<br><br>Master's degree in ABA, Psychology, Special Education, or related field. BCBA, BCaBA, or equivalent certification is often preferred. Existing or qualified for DOH Licensing as ABA<br><br>Special Certificate:-<br><br>Minimum 2 years of experience post qualification in related field
This position is for UAE Nationals only<br>Position Summary The Lab Specialist will support the delivery of the GENS 101 Grand Challenges course by providing technical expertise in mechatronics, robotics, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, and laboratory experimentation. Among other responsibilities, the role involves mentoring student teams during project development, maintaining laboratory equipment, ensuring safe laboratory operations, and supporting faculty during studio sessions. The successful candidate will help students design, build, test, and troubleshoot engineering prototypes while encouraging independent learning and innovation.<br>Key Responsibilities Student & Project Support Provide technical guidance for student projects involving robotics, embedded systems, sensors, electronics, and automation. Assist students with prototype design, fabrication, assembly, testing, troubleshooting, and system integration. Support experimental setup, data acquisition, calibration, and interpretation of results. Mentor students in applying the Engineering Design Process and Scientific Method without completing project work on their behalf. Laboratory Operations Prepare laboratories and equipment for teaching activities. Maintain, calibrate, and troubleshoot laboratory equipment and fabrication machines. Manage laboratory inventory, consumables, and equipment maintenance schedules. Ensure compliance with laboratory safety procedures and provide equipment training to students. Faculty Support Assist instructors during studio sessions and demonstrations. Support the development and testing of new laboratory activities. Recommend improvements to laboratory equipment and technical resources.<br>Education Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science with knowledge and practical experience relevant to interdisciplinary engineering design, mechatronics, robotics, embedded systems, and prototyping. Master's degree is preferred.<br>Technical Requirements<br>The successful candidate should have practical experience in:Embedded Systems: Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi or similar microcontrollers. Robotics & Automation: Sensors, actuators, DC/servo motors, motor drivers, and basic motion control. Electronics: Circuit prototyping, soldering, PCB assembly, electronic troubleshooting, and instrumentation. Mechanical Design: CAD software (Solid Works, Fusion 360, Onshape, or similar) Digital Fabrication: 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC machining, and rapid prototyping. Programming: Arduino IDE, C/C++, and basic Python. Data Acquisition: sensor calibration, data collection. Desired Experience University engineering laboratories or makerspaces. Robotics, automation, or embedded systems projects. Student design competitions or project-based learning environments. Operation of digital fabrication equipment. Core Competencies Fluent in English (IELTS 7+) Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Excellent communication and mentoring abilities. Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary student teams. Strong organizational and laboratory management skills. Commitment to safety, innovation, and continuous improvement. Preferred Equipment Experience Experience with some or all of the following is desirable:Arduino and embedded development kits Robotics platforms Electronic test equipment (multi-meters, oscilloscopes, power supplies) Sensors and data acquisition systems3D printers Laser cutter and CNC router Hand and power tools for prototyping
Director of Compliance???? Location: United Arab Emirates (UAE) ???? Work Arrangement: Hybrid / Remote ???? Employment Type: Full-time / Part-time ???? Experience Level: Director / Senior Leadership About the Role We are seeking an experienced, strategic, and detail-oriented Director of Compliance to lead the organization's compliance framework, regulatory programs, risk management, and governance activities in the UAE. The successful candidate will work closely with senior leadership, legal, finance, operations, risk, and business teams to ensure that the organization maintains strong compliance standards, effectively manages regulatory risks, and operates in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies. This role is ideal for a senior compliance professional with a strong background in regulatory compliance, risk management, corporate governance, internal controls, compliance monitoring, policy development, and regulatory affairs. Key Responsibilities Develop and implement the organization's overall compliance strategy and framework. Establish and maintain comprehensive compliance policies, procedures, and controls. Monitor regulatory and legislative developments relevant to the organization's business. Assess the impact of new and changing regulatory requirements. Conduct compliance risk assessments and develop appropriate mitigation strategies. Establish compliance monitoring, testing, and reporting programs. Oversee internal compliance reviews, investigations, and remediation activities. Identify potential compliance gaps and recommend corrective actions. Work closely with Legal, Finance, HR, Operations, IT, Risk, and other departments. Provide senior management with advice and guidance on regulatory and compliance matters. Prepare regular compliance reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior leadership. Maintain appropriate compliance records, documentation, and reporting procedures. Support internal and external audits and regulatory examinations. Develop and deliver compliance training and awareness programs. Promote a strong culture of compliance, ethics, accountability, and responsible business conduct. Oversee third-party and vendor compliance processes where required. Support anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery, data protection, and other applicable compliance programs where relevant. Ensure appropriate controls are in place to identify, assess, and manage compliance risks. Lead investigations into potential policy or regulatory violations and coordinate remediation. Monitor the effectiveness of compliance controls and continuously improve the compliance framework. Coordinate with regulators, external advisors, auditors, and other relevant stakeholders when required. What We're Looking For Strong knowledge of compliance principles, regulatory frameworks, and corporate governance. Proven experience leading compliance programs or functions. Strong risk-assessment and internal-control capabilities. Excellent analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills. Strong understanding of regulatory monitoring and compliance reporting. Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder-management skills. Ability to interpret complex regulations and translate them into practical business requirements. Strong attention to detail and professional judgment. High level of integrity, confidentiality, and ethical standards. Ability to work effectively with senior management and cross-functional teams. Ability to work independently in a hybrid or remote environment. Strong English communication skills. UAE / GCC regulatory and compliance experience is highly advantageous. Qualifications & Experience Bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Risk Management, Compliance, or a related field. Master's degree or relevant advanced qualification is an advantage. Significant experience in compliance, regulatory affairs, risk management, internal audit, legal, or a related senior role. Experience developing and implementing compliance frameworks and policies. Experience with regulatory reporting, compliance monitoring, risk assessments, and internal controls. Professional certifications such as ICA, CAMS, CCEP, CRCM, CFE, CPA, ACCA, or equivalent are advantageous depending on the industry. Experience working with financial institutions, fintech, technology, professional services, or other regulated industries is beneficial. Knowledge of UAE and GCC regulatory environments is highly preferred. What We Offer Hybrid / Remote working options Senior compliance leadership opportunity in the UAEOpportunity to shape and strengthen the organization's compliance framework Direct exposure to senior leadership and strategic business initiatives Professional development and regulatory training opportunities Flexible and collaborative working environment Opportunity to lead compliance and risk-management initiatives Career progression within compliance, risk, governance, and regulatory leadership How to Apply Interested candidates are invited to submit their CV, including relevant compliance leadership experience, regulatory expertise, risk-management experience, professional certifications, compliance programs managed, and key career achievements. We welcome applications from Compliance Directors, Heads of Compliance, Chief Compliance Officers, Senior Compliance Managers, Regulatory Affairs Directors, Risk & Compliance Directors, Compliance Leaders, and experienced regulatory professionals interested in senior compliance opportunities in the UAE.nal with a strong background in regulatory compliance, risk management, corporate governance, internal controls, compliance monitoring, policy development, and regulatory affairs. Key Responsibilities Develop and implement the organization's overall compliance strategy and framework. Establish and maintain comprehensive compliance policies, procedures, and controls. Monitor regulatory and legislative developments relevant to the organization's business. Assess the impact of new and changing regulatory requirements. Conduct compliance risk assessments and develop appropriate mitigation strategies. Establish compliance monitoring, testing, and reporting programs. Oversee internal compliance reviews, investigations, and remediation activities. Identify potential compliance gaps and recommend corrective actions. Work closely with Legal, Finance, HR, Operations, IT, Risk, and other departments. Provide senior management with advice and guidance on regulatory and compliance matters. Prepare regular compliance reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior leadership. Maintain appropriate compliance records, documentation, and reporting procedures. Support internal and external audits and regulatory examinations. Develop and deliver compliance training and awareness programs. Promote a strong culture of compliance, ethics, accountability, and responsible business conduct. Oversee third
Responsibilities<br><br>Managerial <br><br>Being involved in the daily management of workload allocation within the specialist area, taking into account the changing/competing demands and making decisions about prioritization of caseloads<br><br>Potential Supervision of junior staff and ensuring their abidance to going rules and policies as applied and implemented in the Section/Department/Facility<br><br>Technical <br><br>Taking Care Management responsibility for vulnerable clients. This includes the production of comprehensive assessment of client needs, formulization of a social care plan, and the identification of relevant resources to meet the individual’s needs. Where appropriate following assessment, co-ordinate the delivery of social care plans and liaising with the appropriate government or charity agencies<br><br>Carrying out initial comprehensive person centered psychosocial assessments, plan and implement individual strategies of care to meet identified needs in conjunction with the service user, care giver and members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate and update the patient file history as required by JCI.<br><br>Acting as an advocate for the patient in ensuring that their expressed wishes are central when planning care to meet the patient long term care needs<br><br>Consider any legal issues for patients admitted and liase with the admitting authority such as police, judicial, prosecution, and provide the necessary reports in order to discharge patient safely.<br><br>Participate in safe and effective decision making to facilitate a safe, timely discharge from bedded units and community teams.<br><br>Liaising effectively with other agencies including government and charity involved in the care of the individual thereby maintaining and enhancing close professional working relationships<br><br>Working closely with patients/family in directing them to the appropriate resources and support when needed<br><br>Follow up with psychiatric visits from other hospitals to assess the patient case. Recording unusual conditions/limitations, documenting examination time, room number<br><br>Respecting the rights of the individual service user and their families, embracing values, spiritual beliefs and customs<br><br>Follow up with approved ER exempted cases of needy patients, and make sure their treatment coverage is processed & directed to the concerned department.<br><br>Promoting and informing an awareness of social care/social work context and anti discriminatory practice to other professionals and facilitate multi-disciplinary working<br><br>Networking and liaise with other professionals and external organizations to provide services to individuals, families and carers and to challenge and question when necessary in the best interests of the user<br><br>Negotiating a diverse and challenging complexity of needs to a range of providers/agencies and to coordinate the organization of care packages and facilitate access to a wide range of resources and information<br><br>Promoting, enabling and empowering individuals, families and carers through representation of rights; advocacy; nurturing strengths and capacities to make informed choices about highly complex life decisions<br><br>Maintaining and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice<br><br>Managing frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional circumstances, and maintain substantial mental effort through frequent and intense levels of concentration and attention<br><br>Maintaining and enforcing confidential information about patients, staff and others in accordance with professional codes of conduct and relevant legislation<br><br>Acting as an advocate for the patient in ensuring that their expressed wishes are central when planning care to meet the clients long term care needs.<br><br>Respecting the rights of the individual service user and their families, embracing, spiritual beliefs and customs<br><br>Provide crisis interventions as needed.<br><br>Participate in complex discharge planning with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure smooth transition of care for patient and family.<br><br>Participate in the multidisciplinary team meetings to discuss and advocate for the patient and family needs (physical, social and emotional).<br><br>Engage in providing clinically appropriate psychoeducation and direct therapeutic interventions as warranted to address patient and families’ psychosocial needs and concerns.<br><br>Quality & Safety <br><br>Ensuring compliance with all safety and quality control programs and procedures as applicable<br><br>Ensuring compliance with applicable precautions for environmental safety, infection control, using a series of interventions that minimize or prevent cross infection<br><br>Maintaining and assisting in enforcing the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded<br><br>Complying and ensuring that those directly supervised comply with occupational health and safety at work policies and procedures<br><br>Assisting in the planning and developing policies that guide the service implementation process<br><br>Practicing within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures<br><br>Ensuring that SOP (standard operation procedures) and Quality Assurance tests are maintained within all sections<br><br>Education Delivering and participating in training and continued education sessions as requred by hospital policy and Department of Health (DOH) licensure.<br><br>Participating in department programs/committees, various hospital committees, and staff meetings<br><br>Assisting and participating in the orientation and training of new employees<br><br>Ensuring appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures<br><br>Maintaining professional development and knowledge by attending lectures, seminars or on-line education units<br><br>Completing and maintaining all regulatory requirements including: licensure and certification and other mandatory training within established time frames<br><br>Participating in adequate clinical supervision as required for their professional and technical development<br><br>Qualifications<br><br>Qualification :-<br><br>BSc in social work and master's degree in social work<br><br>Required<br><br>Two years of experience.<br><br>UAE National<br><br>Additional Requirements: -<br><br>Maintain the continuing education as required by DOH Licensure
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<p><strong> JOB SUMMARY / INTRODUCTION</strong></p><br><ul><li>To lead the engineering, architecture, and run-state ownership of the bank's enterprise AI & Agentic Platform, ensuring it operates as a reliable, secure, observable, and bank-grade production platform supporting agents and AI workloads across the Group.</li><li>The role is the senior technical authority for platform engineering and architecture across the agentic runtime, model gateway, integration fabric, identity layer, and infrastructure backbone of the platform.</li><li>It operates in a two-in-a-box model with the existing Platform Product Owner to provide concurrent technical ownership and organizational resilience for the platform, with shared accountability for platform availability, performance, cost, security posture, and architectural evolution.</li><li>The role is deeply technical in nature, requiring hands-on engineering depth across distributed systems, agentic protocols, LLM infrastructure, identity and access management, and cloud-native platform engineering. </li></ul><p><strong> KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p><br><p><strong> Key Accountabilities — Platform Architecture</strong><br> </p><br><ul><li>Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the AI & Agentic Platform's five-layer stack: Action Gateway, Agent Kernel, Control Plane, Knowledge Foundation, and the Users and Channels layer.</li><li>Architect and evolve the agentic runtime to natively support the emerging multi-protocol stack: Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agent-to-tool access, Agent-to-Agent (A2A) for inter-agent coordination and task delegation, Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) and equivalent emerging standards, ensuring the platform is interoperable with hyperscaler agent fabrics (Azure AI Foundry agents, AWS Bedrock Agents, Google ADK).</li><li>Design the platform's agent kernel, including agent lifecycle management, planning and reasoning loops, memory architecture (short-term, long-term, episodic), state management, session affinity, scratchpad persistence, and execution chains.</li><li>Architect the platform's knowledge foundation, including vector store selection and topology, hybrid retrieval (BM25, dense, graph), embeddings strategy, knowledge graph integration (FIBO, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL), context engineering, and grounding patterns.</li><li><p>Design the platform's control plane, including policy-gated execution, Know Your Agent (KYA) enforcement at runtime, agent registries, tool registries, capability discovery, evaluation pipelines, and tracing and lineage at agent and tool granularity.</p><br><p><strong>Key Accountabilities — Integrations & Model Layer</strong></p><br></li><li>Architect and engineer the platform's LLM gateway and model abstraction layer, providing a unified interface across foundation model providers (Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, Cohere) with intelligent routing, fallback, retries, prompt and response caching, semantic caching, rate limiting, token accounting, cost attribution, and tenant isolation.</li><li>Design model serving patterns for managed APIs, dedicated capacity (PTUs / provisioned throughput), and self-hosted open-weight models on GPU infrastructure (vLLM, TGI, Triton, or equivalent), with appropriate trade-offs across cost, latency, sovereignty, and compliance.</li><li>Lead the integration architecture between the AI Platform and the bank's core estate, including core banking, payments, treasury, credit and risk systems, the enterprise data platform (Azure, Cloudera, Databricks), enterprise APIs, ESB, event streaming (Kafka, Event Hubs), and the data product layer.<br>Design the action gateway as the bank's enforcement boundary for agentic action, including API mediation, contract enforcement, circuit breakers, idempotency guarantees, transactional safety, and audit-grade action logging.</li><li><p>Engineer the platform's tool layer and MCP server estate, including tool packaging, versioning, capability advertisement, schema enforcement, and runtime tool discovery across Wholesale, Retail, and Group functions.</p><br><p><strong>Key Accountabilities — Identity, Security & Governance</strong></p><br></li><li>Architect and own the agent identity and workload identity model for the platform, including non-human identity (NHI) management, agent identity lifecycle, blended user-plus-agent identity for delegated actions, and the identity propagation chain across multi-agent flows.<br>Design the platform's authentication and authorization architecture, including OAuth 2.1 and OIDC flows for agent-to-tool and agent-to-API interactions, just-in-time credential issuance, short-lived token exchange, mTLS for agent-to-agent communication, and integration with the bank's enterprise IAM (Microsoft Entra ID, PAM, secrets management).</li><li>Implement zero-trust principles across the agentic stack, including least-privilege scoping per agent and per task, real-time policy evaluation, behavioral posture checks, and continuous authorization rather than static service-account-style access.</li><li>Engineer the platform's runtime governance controls, including KYA enforcement, prompt and output guardrails (PII, PHI, MNPI, prompt injection defense), sensitive action approval flows, and human-in-the-loop escalation patterns.</li><li>Harden the platform to meet CBUAE, internal model risk, and Group governance requirements, including auditability, lineage, data residency, model risk controls, third-party model governance, and OWASP LLM Top 10 alignment.</li><li>Key Accountabilities — Infrastructure & Run-State</li><li>Lead the platform's cloud and infrastructure architecture across Azure (primary) and AWS, including infrastructure as code (Terraform), networking (private endpoints, peering, egress control), Kubernetes (AKS) and container orchestration, secrets management, and CI/CD pipelines.</li><li>Own platform Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including SLO design, error budget management, observability (OpenTelemetry, traces, metrics, logs at agent and tool granularity), incident response, post-mortems, capacity planning, and cost governance for a growing fleet of agents and AI workloads in production.<br>Operate in genuine two-in-a-box with the existing Platform Product Owner, including shared on-call, shared roadmap ownership, and shared accountability for major architectural decisions, regulator conversations, and critical incidents.</li><li>Drive engineering excellence across the platform team, including testing discipline (unit, integration, evaluation, red-teaming), documentation, infrastructure as code maturity, operational readiness reviews, and technical mentorship of platform engineers.</li><li>Represent the platform in senior technical forums with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber, Model Risk, Internal Audit, and the Group CTTO's office on architecture and engineering matters.</li><li><p>Engage with hyperscale, model provider, and framework vendor technical teams on platform-level integration, performance, sovereignty, and cost optimization.</p><br><p><strong>REQUIREMENTS / QUALIFICATIONS</strong></p><br><p><strong>Technical Expertise</strong></p><br></li><li>Deep, current expertise in agentic AI architecture and the modern multi-protocol stack: Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A), Agent Communication Protocol (ACP), and the engineering patterns required to build interoperable agentic systems on top of them at platform scale.<br>Strong hands-on knowledge of agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, Google ADK, LlamaIndex, Autogen, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, or equivalent), planning and reasoning loops, multi-agent coordination patterns, agent memory systems, and evaluation harnesses (RAGAS, OPIK, LangSmith, Promptfoo, or equivalent).</li><li>Deep technical knowledge of LLM serving and inference architecture, including managed model APIs (Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI), provisioned throughput / PTUs, self-hosted open-weight models, GPU scheduling, vLLM / TGI / Triton, KV-cache management, batching strategies, and the cost-latency-quality trade-offs that drive model selection.</li><li>Strong working expertise in LLM gateway and AI gateway architecture, including model routing, fallback and retry, prompt and semantic caching, rate limiting, tenant isolation, token accounting, and policy enforcement at the gateway boundary.</li><li>Deep experience in retrieval and knowledge architecture, including vector databases (pgvector, Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or equivalent), hybrid retrieval, reranking, embeddings model selection, knowledge graphs (FIBO, RDF, OWL, SHACL, Neo4j, Apache Jena), and context engineering at scale.<br>Strong grounding in agent and workload identity, including non-human identity (NHI) governance, agent identity lifecycle, OAuth 2.1, OIDC, SPIFFE / SPIRE-style workload identity, mTLS, just-in-time credentialing, secret-less architectures, and integration with enterprise IAM (Microsoft Entra ID, Azure AD, PAM platforms).</li><li>Deep proficiency in cloud-native platform engineering on Azure (preferred) and AWS, including Terraform, Kubernetes (AKS / EKS), Helm, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), API gateways (APIM, Kong, Envoy), private networking, and policy-as-code (OPA, Azure Policy).<br>Strong programming proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or Java, with active engagement in code reviews, design reviews, and platform-level engineering decisions.</li><li>Strong Site Reliability Engineering background, including production on-call, incident leadership, post-mortem discipline, SLO and error-budget design, capacity planning, and observability tooling (Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent) tuned for non-deterministic AI workloads.<br>Working knowledge of integration patterns relevant to banking platforms, including event-driven architectures (Kafka, Event Hubs), API gateways, ESB, ISO 20022, payment rails, and core banking integration patterns.</li><li>Strong grounding in security engineering for regulated industries, including OWASP LLM Top 10, prompt injection defence, model supply-chain security, secrets management, network segmentation, data residency, and audit logging.<br>Engineering Leadership & Collaboration</li><li>Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a two-in-a-box model with another senior technical owner, including shared accountability, shared on-call, and shared decision-making.</li><li>Track record of raising engineering standards across a platform team through standards, design reviews, documentation, and direct technical mentorship.<br>Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to engage credibly with engineers, architects, risk and audit functions, hyperscaler and vendor technical teams, and senior business stakeholders.<br>Minimum Experience</li><li>10+ years in software and platform engineering, with significant time spent at senior, staff, or principal engineering / architect level.<br>Demonstrated production ownership of at least one platform serving multiple internal or external consumers at enterprise scale, ideally including agentic or LLM workloads.</li><li><p>Substantive experience in financial services, banking, or another comparably regulated industry.<br>Demonstrated SRE and on-call experience on a production platform with meaningful availability and operational requirements.<br>Track record of building, integrating, or operating LLM-based or agentic systems in production.</p><br><p><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></p><br></li><li><p>Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.</p><br><p><strong>Preferred / Beneficial</strong></p><br></li><li>Master's degree (MSc / MTech / MEng) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, or a related discipline preferred.</li><li>Relevant professional certifications in cloud engineering (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, AWS DevOps Professional, AWS</li><li>Solutions Architect Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator), security (CISSP, CCSP), or SRE considered an advantage.</li></ul><br> <b>About Us:</b><br> First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the largest bank in the UAE and one of the world's largest and safest financial institutions. We offer a comprehensive range of personal and private banking services, including credit cards, Islamic banking, investments, loans, and mortgages. Our commitment to excellence and innovation drives us to provide top-tier financial solutions to our clients.<br> <b>Life at FAB:</b><br> Working at FAB means being part of a team of talented and passionate individuals with a shared vision to support the ambitions of our stakeholders to "Grow Stronger." We embrace the needs of our customers across the globe with a sense of responsibility and confidence driven by extensive expertise that can only be delivered by an ambitious world-class organization<br> <b>Career Development:</b><br> FAB offers unique career choices, a chance to innovate, craft solutions for the future, and express yourself in a performance-based culture that will unleash the best in you. Whether you are an experienced professional or just starting your career, FAB provides a range of learning and development initiatives to support all employees through training and skill development.<br> <b>Our Values:</b><br> At FAB, we place our customers at the core of our activities, live our values each day in every way, celebrate achievements, and empower each other to deliver leading solutions. We have structured plans for the recruitment and career progression of Emirati talent to enable them to make a mark in the financial and banking sector both regionally and globaly that rewards your hard work and dedication.<br> Join our team and be part of a journey to shape the future of banking.<br> </div>
Vice President – People (UAEN) Location: Abu Dhabi (Onsite – Mussafah)<br>About the Opportunity Our client, a leading manufacturing organization in the region, is seeking an accomplished Vice President – People to provide strategic leadership across the full spectrum of Human Capital, Administration, and Corporate Services. Reporting to the executive leadership team, this role will shape the organization's people strategy, drive organizational transformation, and ensure the delivery of world-class HR and shared services that support long-term business growth. This is a highly visible executive leadership role responsible for aligning people strategy with business objectives, leading organizational development, driving Emiratization, and overseeing employee services, facilities, and administration across a large, complex industrial environment.<br>Key Responsibilities Executive Leadership & Strategy• Serve as a member of the Executive Management team, contributing to the development and execution of corporate strategy and long-term business objectives.• Develop and implement the annual operating plan and strategic roadmap for the People and Corporate Services function.• Lead enterprise-wide organizational transformation and change management initiatives that improve business performance and organizational effectiveness.• Define and execute the overall Human Capital strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities and future workforce requirements.• Establish an effective organizational structure that supports operational excellence, scalability, and business growth.• Lead annual workforce planning and budgeting, ensuring effective resource allocation and cost optimization.• Oversee divisional budgets, financial performance, and productivity while ensuring efficient utilization of resources.<br>People & Culture• Develop and implement people strategies that attract, develop, engage, and retain high-performing talent.• Lead workforce planning, talent acquisition, succession planning, leadership development, learning and development, and organizational capability initiatives.• Drive company-wide performance management frameworks aligned with business objectives.• Oversee compensation, benefits, rewards, recognition, and employee wellbeing strategies to ensure competitiveness and regulatory compliance.• Champion employee engagement, culture transformation, diversity, inclusion, and employer branding initiatives.• Develop and oversee grievance management, employee relations, and conflict resolution frameworks.• Ensure HR policies, governance, and employment practices remain compliant with local Labour Law and applicable regulations.• Lead the company's Emiratization strategy, ensuring achievement of government targets while building sustainable talent pipelines.<br>Administration & Corporate Services• Provide executive oversight of corporate administration and employee services.• Lead Facilities and Services operations, including accommodation, transportation, catering, reception, security, mail services, clinic operations, maintenance, landscaping, cleaning, and other employee support services.• Ensure service excellence through effective vendor management, service level agreements, and continuous performance improvement.• Identify outsourcing opportunities and manage strategic partnerships to improve efficiency while maintaining service quality and cost effectiveness.<br>Technology & Continuous Improvement• Drive the adoption of technology and digital HR solutions to improve operational efficiency and employee experience.• Evaluate HR systems, analytics platforms, and automation opportunities to enhance decision making and workforce insights.• Develop meaningful people analytics and executive dashboards to support strategic workforce planning.<br>Leadership & Governance• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing leadership team across Human Capital and Corporate Services.• Establish clear KPIs and accountability frameworks for departmental leaders.• Represent the People function at Executive Committee meetings and provide strategic advice to senior leadership.• Foster collaboration across business functions while driving a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.<br>Health, Safety & Compliance• Promote a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with EHS legislation and organizational policies.• Ensure all People and Corporate Services activities comply with applicable legal, regulatory, governance, and internal audit requirements.• Maintain effective relationships with regulatory authorities, government entities, and external stakeholders.<br>Qualifications & Experience Education• Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, or a related discipline.• Professional HR certifications such as CIPD, SHRM, or equivalent are highly preferred. Experience• Minimum 15 years of progressive Human Resources leadership experience, including significant executive-level responsibility.• Proven leadership experience within manufacturing, industrial, engineering, heavy industry, or similarly complex operational environments.• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide Human Capital transformation initiatives.• Extensive experience across talent acquisition, organizational development, performance management, compensation and benefits, employee relations, learning and development, and administration.• Proven experience leading Emiratization strategies and workforce nationalization initiatives.• Strong commercial acumen with responsibility for large operational budgets and vendor management.• Experience managing shared services including facilities, administration, and employee support functions is highly desirable.<br>Key Competencies• Executive leadership and strategic thinking.• Strong commercial and financial acumen.• Organizational transformation and change management expertise.• Deep understanding of local Labour Law and the Emiratization landscape.• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.• Data-driven decision making and workforce analytics capability.• Outstanding communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills.• High levels of integrity, professionalism, and discretion.• Ability to lead large, multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced industrial environment.• Fluency in English is essential. Arabic is highly preferred.<br>Key Performance Indicators• Employee engagement and organizational culture.• Employee satisfaction across People and Corporate Services.• Achievement of Emiratization targets.• Talent attraction, retention, and succession readiness.• Leadership capability and workforce productivity.• Accuracy and effective utilization of divisional budgets.• Compensation and overhead cost management.• Service quality and operational efficiency across corporate services.• Compliance with HR policies, governance, and legislative requirements.• Internal and external audit performance.• Vendor performance, service quality, and cost optimization.• Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental compliance.<br>Working Arrangement This is a fully onsite executive leadership position based at the client's Head Office in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi.
Vice President – People (UAEN) Location: Abu Dhabi (Onsite – Mussafah)<br>About the Opportunity Our client, a leading manufacturing organization in the region, is seeking an accomplished Vice President – People to provide strategic leadership across the full spectrum of Human Capital, Administration, and Corporate Services. Reporting to the executive leadership team, this role will shape the organization's people strategy, drive organizational transformation, and ensure the delivery of world-class HR and shared services that support long-term business growth. This is a highly visible executive leadership role responsible for aligning people strategy with business objectives, leading organizational development, driving Emiratization, and overseeing employee services, facilities, and administration across a large, complex industrial environment.<br>Key Responsibilities Executive Leadership & Strategy• Serve as a member of the Executive Management team, contributing to the development and execution of corporate strategy and long-term business objectives.• Develop and implement the annual operating plan and strategic roadmap for the People and Corporate Services function.• Lead enterprise-wide organizational transformation and change management initiatives that improve business performance and organizational effectiveness.• Define and execute the overall Human Capital strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities and future workforce requirements.• Establish an effective organizational structure that supports operational excellence, scalability, and business growth.• Lead annual workforce planning and budgeting, ensuring effective resource allocation and cost optimization.• Oversee divisional budgets, financial performance, and productivity while ensuring efficient utilization of resources.<br>People & Culture• Develop and implement people strategies that attract, develop, engage, and retain high-performing talent.• Lead workforce planning, talent acquisition, succession planning, leadership development, learning and development, and organizational capability initiatives.• Drive company-wide performance management frameworks aligned with business objectives.• Oversee compensation, benefits, rewards, recognition, and employee wellbeing strategies to ensure competitiveness and regulatory compliance.• Champion employee engagement, culture transformation, diversity, inclusion, and employer branding initiatives.• Develop and oversee grievance management, employee relations, and conflict resolution frameworks.• Ensure HR policies, governance, and employment practices remain compliant with local Labour Law and applicable regulations.• Lead the company's Emiratization strategy, ensuring achievement of government targets while building sustainable talent pipelines.<br>Administration & Corporate Services• Provide executive oversight of corporate administration and employee services.• Lead Facilities and Services operations, including accommodation, transportation, catering, reception, security, mail services, clinic operations, maintenance, landscaping, cleaning, and other employee support services.• Ensure service excellence through effective vendor management, service level agreements, and continuous performance improvement.• Identify outsourcing opportunities and manage strategic partnerships to improve efficiency while maintaining service quality and cost effectiveness.<br>Technology & Continuous Improvement• Drive the adoption of technology and digital HR solutions to improve operational efficiency and employee experience.• Evaluate HR systems, analytics platforms, and automation opportunities to enhance decision making and workforce insights.• Develop meaningful people analytics and executive dashboards to support strategic workforce planning.<br>Leadership & Governance• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing leadership team across Human Capital and Corporate Services.• Establish clear KPIs and accountability frameworks for departmental leaders.• Represent the People function at Executive Committee meetings and provide strategic advice to senior leadership.• Foster collaboration across business functions while driving a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.<br>Health, Safety & Compliance• Promote a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with EHS legislation and organizational policies.• Ensure all People and Corporate Services activities comply with applicable legal, regulatory, governance, and internal audit requirements.• Maintain effective relationships with regulatory authorities, government entities, and external stakeholders.<br>Qualifications & Experience Education• Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, or a related discipline.• Professional HR certifications such as CIPD, SHRM, or equivalent are highly preferred. Experience• Minimum 15 years of progressive Human Resources leadership experience, including significant executive-level responsibility.• Proven leadership experience within manufacturing, industrial, engineering, heavy industry, or similarly complex operational environments.• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide Human Capital transformation initiatives.• Extensive experience across talent acquisition, organizational development, performance management, compensation and benefits, employee relations, learning and development, and administration.• Proven experience leading Emiratization strategies and workforce nationalization initiatives.• Strong commercial acumen with responsibility for large operational budgets and vendor management.• Experience managing shared services including facilities, administration, and employee support functions is highly desirable.<br>Key Competencies• Executive leadership and strategic thinking.• Strong commercial and financial acumen.• Organizational transformation and change management expertise.• Deep understanding of local Labour Law and the Emiratization landscape.• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.• Data-driven decision making and workforce analytics capability.• Outstanding communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills.• High levels of integrity, professionalism, and discretion.• Ability to lead large, multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced industrial environment.• Fluency in English is essential. Arabic is highly preferred.<br>Key Performance Indicators• Employee engagement and organizational culture.• Employee satisfaction across People and Corporate Services.• Achievement of Emiratization targets.• Talent attraction, retention, and succession readiness.• Leadership capability and workforce productivity.• Accuracy and effective utilization of divisional budgets.• Compensation and overhead cost management.• Service quality and operational efficiency across corporate services.• Compliance with HR policies, governance, and legislative requirements.• Internal and external audit performance.• Vendor performance, service quality, and cost optimization.• Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental compliance.<br>Working Arrangement This is a fully onsite executive leadership position based at the client's Head Office in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi.
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About the job Principal Economist - North America Gas LNG Portfolio
Job Description <p><strong>Position Title: </strong><strong>Principal Economist – North America Gas & LNG Portfolio</strong></p><br> <p><strong>Reports to: </strong><strong>SVP, Non-Operated Assets</strong></p><br> <p><strong>Department: </strong><strong>Non-Operated Assets</strong></p><br> <p><strong>Function: </strong><strong>Asset Management</strong></p><br> <p><strong>Prepared on: </strong><strong>27 July 2026</strong></p><br> <p><strong>Role Purpose</strong></p><br> <p>To lead the economic, financial modelling, valuation, and commercial analysis agenda for the North America Gas & LNG portfolio, ensuring that operational, commercial, fiscal, financing, and market assumptions are translated into robust decision-quality insights for senior management, committees, and shareholders. </p><br>
<p>The role supports Non-operated asset value creation through investment evaluation, business planning, portfolio optimization, capital allocation, financing / capital markets analysis, and JV budget / plan challenge.</p><br> <p><strong>Role Dimensions</strong></p><br> <p><strong>Dimensions / Portfolio Coverage: </strong>North America natural gas, upstream / unconventional developments, LNG export projects, midstream and integrated gas value chain opportunities. </p><br>
<p><strong>Commercial and Financial Scope: </strong>Detailed economic modelling, portfolio valuation, financing structures, capital allocation, investment approvals, WP&B / Business Plan support, M&A / divestment / monetization analysis, and capital markets readiness. </p><br>
<p><strong>Stakeholder Environment: </strong>Works across technical, finance, commercial, legal, governance, tax, external advisers, JV partners, lenders, reserve auditors, and senior management. </p><br>
<p><strong>Governance Context: </strong>Operates within Mubadala Energy governance processes, Non-Operated Asset management frameworks, JV / JOC / JOA requirements, internal approval processes, and applicable legal / regulatory obligation</p><br> <p><strong>Key Accountabilities</strong></p><br> <p><strong>Economic Modelling and Financial Analysis </strong></p><br>
<p> Lead the development, maintenance, and enhancement of complex integrated economic and financial models for North America natural gas and LNG projects. </p><br>
<p> Perform detailed economic evaluations for asset performance, capital allocation scenarios, investment opportunities, portfolio optimization, funding strategies, cash flows, debt capacity, and returns. </p><br>
<p> Lead economic assessments for financing, recapitalization, monetization and capital markets transactions, including equity sell-downs, farm-outs, acquisitions, divestments, refinancing and other value crystallization events. </p><br>
<p> Develop and evaluate ownership, funding and capital structure alternatives to optimize shareholder value, financing flexibility and investment returns. </p><br>
<p> Assess the economic impact of reserve-based lending, project finance, corporate debt, preferred equity, convertible instruments and hybrid financing arrangements. </p><br>
<p> Integrate operational, financial, commercial, market and tax assumptions into valuation models that remain consistent with actual asset performance and strategic planning assumptions. </p><br>
<p> Apply valuation methodologies including DCF, NAV, comparable company analysis, precedent transactions and market-based valuation techniques. </p><br>
<p> Prepare investment papers, executive analyses and presentations that translate complex modelling outputs into clear, actionable insights. </p><br>
<p><strong>Business Planning and Budgeting </strong></p><br>
<p> Support economic and commercial evaluations for the annual Work Programme & Budget and multi-year Business Plan for assigned non-operated assets. </p><br>
<p> Provide commercial and economic challenge to long-term asset development plans to improve portfolio value, project economics and capital allocation. </p><br>
<p> Develop and maintain asset planning documentation, economic assumptions and support analyses aligned with the NOA management framework and governance processes. </p><br>
<p> Monitor commercial and financial performance against approved plans, highlighting variances, emerging risks and opportunities to improve returns. </p><br>
<p> Review and influence JV business plans, annual budgets and investment proposals through technical committees, operating committees and partner engagement. </p><br>
<p> Check that JV plans, budgets and proposals are aligned with JOAs, governance requirements and internal approvals. </p><br>
<p><strong>Governance, Policies and Business Processes </strong></p><br>
<p> Contribute to the continuous improvement of policies, standards, governance frameworks and business processes for effective non-operated asset management. </p><br>
<p> Support asset-specific controls that strengthen commercial governance, decision quality and risk management. </p><br>
<p> Monitor compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, contractual and governance requirements. </p><br>
<p><strong>HSSE </strong></p><br>
<p> Demonstrate strong commitment to Health, Safety, Security and Environmental principles, ensuring compliance with corporate policies and best industry practice.</p><br> <p><strong>Framework, Boundaries & Decision-Making Authority </strong></p><br> <p><strong>Scope: </strong></p><br>
<p> Provides economic, valuation, commercial and financial modelling support for North America Gas & LNG assets and related strategic opportunities. </p><br>
<p> Supports business planning, annual budgets, financing analysis, investment approvals, shareholder decision-making and JV governance processes. </p><br>
<p> Interfaces with internal functions and external advisers to maintain integrated assumptions and decision-ready analysis. </p><br>
<p><strong>Decision Making: </strong></p><br>
<p> Recommends economic assumptions, valuation cases, sensitivities and commercial interpretations for management review. </p><br>
<p> Provides challenge and assurance on JV plans, budgets, economics and investment proposals before internal decision forums. </p><br>
<p> Escalates material variances, risks, commercial issues and governance concerns for management attention.</p><br> <p><strong>Communications & Working Relationship </strong></p><br> <p><strong>Internal:</strong></p><br>
<p>All members of the M.E. team including CEO, COO, CFO, SVP-HR, SVP- SEA, SVP – Technical, Country managers and all direct reports. </p><br>
<p><strong>External:</strong></p><br>
<p>Peers in the Oil and Gas companies; National Oil Companies; International Oil companies, host government officials; JOC's. non-operated JV's, Energy Ministry(s); and key Service Companies.</p><br> <p>Knowledge, Skills & Experience </p><br> <p><strong>Qualification and Education </strong></p><br> <p><strong>Education:</strong></p><br>
<p>Bachelor's degree in finance / economics or a related field, with substantial experience in the oil and gas industry. A master's degree or CFA certification is preferred.</p><br>
<p><strong>Experience:</strong>
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<p>At least 10 - 15 years of relevant experience globally in the Oil & Gas Sector across a breadth of the development and production value chain. Strong experience in JV and JOC management in a variety of business settings</p><br>
<p><strong>Skills: </strong></p><br>
<p>Expert-level financial modelling capabilities, building integrated, commercial, financing, tax, and valuation models capable of supporting executive decision-making, investment approvals, financing transactions, and capital markets processes<strong>.</strong></p><br>
<p>Evaluation of U.S. unconventional oil & gas developments, LNG export projects, midstream infrastructure, and integrated gas value chains, including exposure to liquefaction economics, transportation, marketing, and international LNG commercialization.</p><br> <p><strong>Relevant Work Experience </strong></p><br> <p>At least 10 - 15 years of relevant experience globally in the Oil & Gas Sector across a breadth of the development and production value chain. Strong experience in JV and JOC management in a variety of business settings.</p><br> <p><strong>Skills and Knowledge </strong></p><br> <p>Expert-level financial modelling capabilities, with extensive experience building integrated operational, commercial, financing, tax, and valuation models capable of supporting executive decision-making, investment approvals, financing transactions, and capital markets processes.</p><br>
<p>Strong hands-on experience in upstream oil & gas industry economics is required. This includes a solid understanding of upstream petroleum economics, project evaluation, reserve calculations, and familiarity with key industry metrics and cash flow analysis for exploration and production (E&P) projects.</p><br>
<p>Demonstrated experience supporting the evaluation of U.S. unconventional oil & gas developments, LNG export projects, midstream infrastructure, and integrated gas value chains, including exposure to liquefaction economics, transportation, marketing, and international LNG commercialization.</p><br>
<p>Demonstrated experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financing transactions, IPOs, strategic monetization processes, asset divestments, or other complex corporate finance initiatives within the energy sector.</p><br>
<p>Experience working with investment banks, lenders, reserve engineers, technical consultants, external auditors, and legal advisers during financing, valuation, or transaction processes.</p><br> <p><strong>Training and Certification </strong></p><br> <p><strong>As above</strong></p><br>
<p><strong>Note: </strong></p><br>
<p><strong>The Key accountabilities and responsibilities described in this job description are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time and / or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business requirements.</strong></p><br>
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VP, Client Service Engineering - International Middle Office & Consumer Customer Service
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<p><strong> JOB SUMMARY / INTRODUCTION</strong><br>The mission of GCOO Client Service Engineering is to reimagine FAB’s client service journeys to be client-centric, efficient, and risk-controlled, positioning FAB as a benchmark for service excellence. The VP plays a key role in enabling the bank’s transformation agenda, ensuring that client service engineering initiatives directly support strategic priorities in customer experience, operational efficiency, and risk management. The VP will lead the delivery of assigned service priorities and is responsible with key stakeholders to deliver the expected outcomes within set time boundaries<br>The VP will directly lead a small team of 1–2 analysts. While not responsible for a large team, the role requires strong influence and collaboration skills to drive cross-functional initiatives and coordinate with stakeholders across business lines, technology, and support functions.<br>The VP will engage with stakeholders across Business Lines, Group Technology, Risk, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Audit, and within GCOO to drive end-to-end service priorities, AI experiments, and automation improvements. This is an execution-focused role; tangible results in CX, scalability, and risk mitigation will be key in defining success.</p><br><p><br> <strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p><br><ul><li><p>Reporting directly to the Head of Client Service Engineering, the VP Client Service Engineering plays a pivotal role in driving end-to-end change through process reengineering, automation, and efficiency improvements. He/She will lead multiple client service priorities, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure the successful execution of initiatives that align with the bank's strategic objectives.</p><br><p><strong>Service Journey Reimagination</strong></p><br></li><li><p>Lead the redesign of client service journeys to ensure they are client-centric, efficient, and risk-controlled. Drive end-to-end process optimization and automation initiatives.</p><br><p><strong>Service Delivery & Performance Management</strong></p><br></li><li>Ensure delivery and scalability of redesigned service journeys, coordinating cross-functional teams.</li><li><p>Monitor and report progress on key KPI’s across CX, Scalability and Risk.</p><br><p><strong>Stakeholder Engagement & Change Leadership</strong></p><br></li><li><p>Engage with key stakeholders across business domains to align on service priorities and drive change. Champion a culture of agile, fast-paced, and repeatable deliver, fostering innovation, agility, and continuous improvement. Familiarity with change management frameworks (e.g., ADKAR, Kotter) is desirable.</p><br><p><strong>Continuous Improvement & Innovation</strong></p><br></li><li><p>Identify opportunities for ongoing process improvement and innovation, including piloting AI and automation solutions. Contribute to the adoption of structured toolkits, best practices, innovation, set-up playbooks, and frameworks for consistent service delivery.</p><br><p><strong>Reporting & Communication</strong></p><br></li><li>Provide regular updates to senior management and governance forums on progress, risks, and key decisions. Prepare, contribute, present materials for GCOO, ExCo-X and other executive committees as required.</li><li><p>Frameworks, Boundaries, & Decision-Making Authority</p><br><p><strong>REQUIREMENTS / QUALIFICATIONS</strong></p><br></li><li>Proven track record of leading successful transformation initiatives, driving process optimization, and delivering measurable results.</li><li>Bachelor's degree in business administration, Finance, Operations Management, or a related field.</li><li><p> Min 10-15 years of experience in Financial Services, external consultancy and with a substantial amount of experience in business transformation, strategic planning, process improvement or system automation with half or more being in executive and/or consulting roles.</p><br><p><strong>Preferred / Beneficial</strong></p><br></li><li>Professional certifications in project management (PMP, Prince2), process improvement (LEAN), change management, Agile, AI and-or related fields are a plus.</li><li><p>MBA or advanced degree is a plus.</p><br><p><strong>Skills</strong></p><br></li><li>An ideal candidate for the role has the following competencies:</li><li>Proven leadership: Demonstrated experience in leading e2e client service engineering and transformation initiatives within a Financial Services and/or large multinational corporate institution.</li><li>Cross-functional Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively across departments. Skilled in aligning diverse perspectives (front line, digital, operations, etc.), fostering shared ownership, and driving integrated outcomes through collaboration and trust. Can engage several stakeholders to lead to common goals.</li><li>Analytical skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret and leverage data to drive opportunities for improvement and expedite decision-making.</li><li>Communication skills: Ability to convey key concepts, problem statements and opportunity cases to gain buy-in from stakeholders across the organization. Good communicator with very high awareness about stakeholder’s standpoint, who can formulate messaging accordingly. Capable of building relationships and collaborating with stakeholders at and above his/her level.</li><li>Results-orientated and hands-on delivery: Track record to deliver tangible results in terms of improvement operation performance.</li><li>Team management: Proven competence around managing people and team(s), both on a BAU and temporary basis; in agile and conventional setups.</li><li>Banking & Technologic knowledge: good understanding of banking segments, domain, product and operations knowledge (Corporate, Consumer), regulatory compliance, and industry trends. Proficiency in leveraging technology and digital solutions to enhance operations.</li><li><p>Professional certifications in project management (PMP, Prince2), process improvement (LEAN), change management, Agile, AI and-or related fields are a plus.</p><br></li></ul><br> <b>About Us:</b><br> First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the largest bank in the UAE and one of the world's largest and safest financial institutions. We offer a comprehensive range of personal and private banking services, including credit cards, Islamic banking, investments, loans, and mortgages. Our commitment to excellence and innovation drives us to provide top-tier financial solutions to our clients.<br> <b>Life at FAB:</b><br> Working at FAB means being part of a team of talented and passionate individuals with a shared vision to support the ambitions of our stakeholders to "Grow Stronger." We embrace the needs of our customers across the globe with a sense of responsibility and confidence driven by extensive expertise that can only be delivered by an ambitious world-class organization<br> <b>Career Development:</b><br> FAB offers unique career choices, a chance to innovate, craft solutions for the future, and express yourself in a performance-based culture that will unleash the best in you. Whether you are an experienced professional or just starting your career, FAB provides a range of learning and development initiatives to support all employees through training and skill development.<br> <b>Our Values:</b><br> At FAB, we place our customers at the core of our activities, live our values each day in every way, celebrate achievements, and empower each other to deliver leading solutions. We have structured plans for the recruitment and career progression of Emirati talent to enable them to make a mark in the financial and banking sector both regionally and globaly that rewards your hard work and dedication.<br> Join our team and be part of a journey to shape the future of banking.<br> </div>
Job Description<br><br>Job Purpose:<br><br>The role is responsible for leading the engineering delivery of infrastructure and software development work packages, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams, customers, and stakeholders to drive successful project execution throughout the "Build & Run" lifecycle.<br><br>Key Responsibilities<br><br>Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering work packages, including scheduling, budget control, risk management, and resource planning. Monitor project progress, track milestones, and ensure successful delivery within agreed timelines and budgets. Coordinate and manage customer meetings, project reviews, and progress reporting. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including Systems Engineering, Software Development, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and IVVQ. Work closely with the Project Manager and engineering discipline leads to ensure effective resource allocation and skills management. Identify and resolve delivery risks, issues, and bottlenecks to maintain project momentum. Promote Agile and Lean methodologies to improve delivery performance and team efficiency. Build strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure project objectives are achieved. Mentor and support delivery teams, encouraging continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. Ensure all engineering activities comply with quality, cybersecurity, and project governance requirements.<br><br>Qualifications And Experience<br><br>Master's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline. Minimum 5 years of experience in software or engineering delivery, with at least 3 years in a Delivery Manager or Work Package Manager role. Experience delivering complex engineering or software projects within multidisciplinary and multicultural environments. Strong understanding of project management principles, including planning, scheduling, risk management, stakeholder management, and reporting. Experience working with Software Engineers, Dev Ops Engineers, Solution Architects, and Systems Engineering teams. Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Git Lab, and similar platforms. Knowledge of Agile, Lean, and collaborative engineering practices. Experience in environments with high cybersecurity and critical system requirements is highly desirable. PMP or IPMA certification is an advantage. Fluent in English; French and/or Arabic is a plus.<br><br>Requirements<br><br>Engineering Delivery Manager
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<p><b>Overview Of The Role:</b></p><p>The Senior Data Scientist will lead the development of advanced machine learning models to optimize demand forecasting and pricing strategies, driving increased profitability and customer satisfaction. This role requires a high level of expertise in Generative AI, MLOps, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure the seamless integration of data-driven solutions within the business. Success in this role is measured by the accuracy and robustness of predictive models, the optimization of pricing strategies, and the overall enhancement of customer analytics.</p><p><br></p><p><b>What You Will Do:</b></p><ul><li>Design, develop, and deploy demand forecasting models using traditional and machine learning techniques like ARIMA, XGBoost, and LSTM.</li><li>Leverage Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance demand forecasting accuracy by simulating future demand scenarios and improving model predictions.</li><li>Implement dynamic pricing models using advanced algorithms to optimize pricing strategies based on demand predictions, inventory levels, and competitor data.</li><li>Analyze customer behavior by applying clustering algorithms and predicting customer lifetime value (CLV) with machine learning models to drive personalized pricing strategies.</li><li>Monitor, evaluate, and fine-tune model performance using metrics such as MAE, RMSE, and Precision/Recall, continuously improving model accuracy and robustness.</li><li>Apply MLOps practices, including version control, model deployment pipelines, and automated testing, to ensure seamless integration, monitoring, and scaling of models across environments.</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product, and sales, to ensure alignment between forecasting models and business objectives.</li><li>Deploy and scale forecasting and pricing models on Azure cloud platform, leveraging CI/CD pipelines and model monitoring tools for real-time performance tracking and proactive issue resolution.</li></ul><p><br></p> </div><h2 class="h5">Skills</h2>
<div data-jb-field="skills"><p><b>Required Skills To Be Successful:</b></p><ul><li>Advanced machine learning model development and optimization skills.</li><li>Expertise in Generative AI techniques for demand forecasting.</li><li>Proficiency in MLOps practices and model deployment pipelines.</li><li>Strong communication and collaboration abilities with cross-functional teams.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><b>What Qualifies You For The Role:</b></p><ul><li>Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.</li><li>10+ years of experience in data science, with at least 5+ years focused on demand forecasting, price optimization, and customer analytics.</li><li>Strong hands-on experience with ARIMA, XGBoost, LSTM, and OR models.</li><li>Proficiency in Python, SQL, Databricks, and cloud platforms (Azure, GCP).</li></ul><p> </p></div>
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<p>We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the successful execution of construction. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing the complete project lifecycle from planning and execution through commissioning and handover while ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. This role requires strong leadership, commercial awareness, and proven experience managing EPC, infrastructure, industrial, or energy projects.</p><br><br> Key Responsibilities: <br>
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We are currently looking for a Senior Heritage Planning Projects Senior Specialist to join the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. <br>The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) drives the sustainable growth of Abu Dhabi’s culture and tourism sectors. Through its work in cultural heritage, museums, historic environments, creative industries, and destination development, DCT Abu Dhabi plays a central role in preserving the emirate’s cultural identity while positioning Abu Dhabi as a leading global destination for culture and tourism. <br>Role Purpose The Senior Heritage Planning Project Specialist supports the Heritage Planning Projects Unit by project managing and overseeing the preparation of heritage planning studies, feasibility studies, adaptive reuse frameworks, and heritage-led urban revitalization initiatives. <br>The role coordinates internal and external stakeholders, consultants, and resources to ensure that heritage planning tools and project studies are evidence-based, technically sound, and aligned with DCT priorities, conservation requirements, and long-term management needs. <br>The position also builds and maintains the unit’s institutional knowledge base, including information on the regulatory environment, funding instruments, stakeholder landscape, socio-economic data, and international best practice, to inform project development, business case preparation, and implementation monitoring. <br>Key Responsibilities Heritage Feasibility Studies and Project Development Project manage and coordinate the development of heritage planning studies that inform rehabilitation, adaptive reuse, and heritage-led urban revitalization projects. Coordinate the preparation of heritage planning tools, including Site Management Plans, Conservation Management Plans, Heritage Management Plans, Heritage Masterplans, implementation plans, and related planning instruments. Support the development of adaptive reuse business plans, economic viability frameworks, operator selection criteria, programme briefs, and project briefs for heritage assets. Prepare and review scopes of work, consultant briefs, technical inputs, and project documentation to support procurement and delivery of heritage planning studies. Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure project deliverables are completed to agreed standards, timelines, and institutional requirements. <br>Business Case, Feasibility, and Adaptive Reuse Contribute to the preparation and quality review of business plans, feasibility studies, financial viability frameworks, and economic narratives for heritage projects. Support operator analysis, revenue scenario review, cost framework development, and business case documentation in coordination with internal teams and external consultants. Ensure that business case inputs reflect heritage values, conservation requirements, operational needs, community benefit, and long-term management considerations. Support the preparation of programme briefs and activation concepts for heritage assets identified for cultural, tourism, community, or mixed-use functions. Assist in aligning feasibility study recommendations with DCT strategies, conservation policies, legislative requirements, and international best practice. <br>Institutional Knowledge and Evidence Base Build and maintain the Heritage Planning Projects Unit’s institutional knowledge base to support heritage planning instruments and project development. Map and regularly update information on relevant regulations, policy frameworks, funding instruments, stakeholder responsibilities, ownership considerations, and socio-economic data. Research and synthesize international best practice in heritage planning, adaptive reuse, heritage economics, conservation-led regeneration, and cultural landscape management. Prepare briefing notes, evidence summaries, benchmarking studies, and internal knowledge products to inform decision-making and business case preparation. Maintain structured records of studies, recommendations, decisions, stakeholder inputs, and implementation status in line with DCT requirements. <br>Monitoring and Implementation Monitor the implementation of approved heritage plans, planning tools, feasibility study recommendations, and adaptive reuse frameworks. Track progress against agreed actions, indicators, timelines, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder commitments. Identify implementation gaps, constraints, risks, and opportunities, and escalate matters requiring management attention. Coordinate with relevant DCT teams, government entities, consultants, operators, asset owners, and delivery partners to support implementation of study outcomes. Prepare progress reports, dashboards, presentations, and updates to support management review and decision-making. <br>Governance & Stakeholder Engagement Coordinate day-to-day engagement with internal DCT sectors, government entities, municipalities, planning authorities, consultants, developers, investors, operators, and community-facing partners. Support stakeholder consultations, workshops, meetings, and review sessions for heritage planning projects and studies. Document stakeholder inputs, agreed actions, approvals, risks, and follow-up requirements to ensure clear project governance. Support the development of governance arrangements, partnership structures, operating models, and stakeholder commitments required for heritage-sensitive project outcomes. Provide technical and coordination support in responding to senior management and government stakeholder requests. <br>Research and Innovation Contribute to research initiatives related to heritage planning, adaptive reuse, heritage economics, heritage-led revitalization, and cultural landscape management. Prepare technical reports, briefing notes, presentations, research summaries, and internal papers to support unit activities. Support knowledge-sharing activities, workshops, training materials, and guidance documents related to heritage planning tools and methodologies. Contribute to the dissemination of heritage planning knowledge within DCT and with relevant external partners, as directed. Support the preparation of publications, conference inputs, or professional presentations related to the unit’s work. <br>Dissemination Contribute to the preparation and dissemination of technical reports, research papers, policy papers, guidance documents, and publications. Represent DCT at professional conferences, technical forums, and academic events, promoting the visibility of Abu Dhabi's heritage planning initiatives. <br>Shared Activity Carry out any other duties and responsibilities related to the role at the request of the direct manager. Follow all relevant DCT departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures, values, ethics, and occupational safety and health requirements. Contribute to continuous improvement and sustainability of systems, processes, and practices. <br>Qualifications and Experience Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Urban Planning, Historic Preservation, Heritage Conservation, Landscape Architecture, or a related discipline. Master's degree in Heritage Conservation, Urban Planning, Architecture, Cultural Heritage Management, or related field. Minimum 6–8 years of relevant experience in heritage planning, conservation planning, adaptive reuse, urban regeneration, heritage management, cultural asset planning, or related fields Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary projects and consultant teams. <br>Skills Heritage Planning and Conservation Management Business Feasibility Studies Financial modelling Adaptive Reuse Planning Urban Regeneration and Revitalisation Heritage Policy and Guideline Development Project and Programme Management GIS and Spatial Analysis Stakeholder Engagement and Facilitation Report Writing and Publications Budget and Consultant Management <br>Interested candidates are welcome to apply or share their CV for consideration.