Senior Data Solution Architect

This is a remote position.

Slash is a venture building consultancy organization with full in-house product & tech staff to handle all client design and development needs. We operate in a crowded industry where everyone is jockeying for position, aiming to push their brand higher. At Slash, we focus on measured growth, ensuring the success of our clients and building relationships that last rather than short term transactional engagements. We aim to deliver the most value based on sound business strategies and product market fit for our clients’ projects.

With nearly 8 years of experience, we have learned and grown much from our humble beginnings. In all that has happened, we have not lost focus on what matters: our people and our clients, which speaks to the core focus on relationships of our business model.

You thrive in client-facing environments, comfortably translating complex data challenges into clear, reliable technical architectures for senior government and enterprise stakeholders. You possess strong ownership, an agile delivery mindset, and the leadership chops to guide cross-functional data engineering teams toward clean, resilient implementations.

Our ideal candidate is:

• A Strategic Architecture Leader: someone who can design high-availability, compliant data platforms and articulate architectural trade-offs with conviction.
  

• Technically Grounded & Hands-On: deeply knowledgeable in enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines, distributed processing engines, and modern lakehouse storage formats.
  

• An Excellent Communicator: confident conducting discovery workshops, leading client architectural reviews, and presenting technical roadmaps in fluent English (B2+ level).
  

• Adaptable & Mobile: comfortable working in a distributed remote setup while ready for occasional travel to the UAE for key on-site client alignments.
  

• Lead the end-to-end architectural design, governance, and scaling of a modernized data lakehouse ecosystem for a strategic UAE-based government initiative.
  

• Establish architectural blueprints and design patterns for complex data ingestion pipelines utilizing Talend Studio.
  

• Architect enterprise data governance, cataloging, profiling, and metadata frameworks utilizing Talend Data Quality and Qlik Data Catalog.
  

• Design high-throughput, distributed transformation flows and low-latency analytical query layers using Apache Spark, Impala, and Apache Iceberg.
  

• Provide direct technical governance, architecture review standards, and mentoring for a team of middle-to-senior data engineers.
  

• Partner with delivery leads, client stakeholders, and solution partners to ensure pipeline designs strictly adhere to enterprise security, performance, and compliance benchmarks.
  

• Travel periodically to the UAE as needed to participate in milestone architecture sessions and executive stakeholder workshops.
  

• Minimum 5+ years of demonstrable experience in data engineering, data lakehouse/warehouse design, and enterprise data architecture (Middle+/Senior level).
  

• Proven architectural experience with Talend Studio and Talend Data Quality for large enterprise deployments.
  

• Practical experience with metadata management and data discovery tools, specifically Qlik Data Catalog.
  

• Strong hands-on architectural command of Apache Spark for distributed computation and Impala for interactive SQL query layers.
  

• Hands-on experience designing or implementing modern table formats, specifically Apache Iceberg.
  

• Fluent written and verbal English communication skills (B2+ level or higher); confidence presenting technical architectures to stakeholders is essential.
  

• Valid passport and willingness for occasional short-term travel to the United Arab Emirates.
  

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.