Cloud Excellence

Cloud Excellence is the practice of maximizing the benefits of cloud computing through optimized strategies, effective management, and leveraging innovative technologies. It involves aligning cloud solutions with business objectives, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and innovation while maintaining cost-effectiveness and security.

Here’s a detailed breakdown:

Pillars of Cloud Excellence

Strategic Alignment:
- Develop a clear cloud strategy aligned with business goals.
- Prioritize workloads for migration based on impact and feasibility.
- Regularly update strategies to adapt to evolving market trends.
Cloud Architecture Optimization:
- Design architectures that are scalable, resilient, and cost-effective.
- Use modern frameworks like microservices and serverless computing.
- Leverage multi-cloud or hybrid cloud models for flexibility and redundancy.
Operational Efficiency:
- Automate provisioning, scaling, and monitoring processes.
- Employ Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Cost Management:
- Monitor and optimize cloud spending using tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or Google Cloud Billing.
- Right-size resources and shut down unused instances.
- Use reserved instances or spot instances for predictable workloads.
Security and Compliance:
- Implement robust identity and access management (IAM) systems.
- Encrypt data in transit and at rest.
- Adhere to compliance standards like GDPR, HIPAA, or ISO 27001.
Performance and Reliability:
- Use monitoring tools like Datadog, Prometheus, or AWS CloudWatch.
- Implement disaster recovery and backup strategies.
- Optimize latency and throughput with Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and caching.
Innovation and Agility:
- Leverage cloud-native services like AI, machine learning, and analytics tools.
- Foster a culture of experimentation with rapid prototyping and fail-fast approaches.
Collaboration and Training:
- Upskill teams with cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Encourage cross-functional collaboration between DevOps, security, and development teams.
- Foster a shared responsibility model for cloud management.

Benefits of Achieving Cloud Excellence

Scalability: Seamlessly scale operations based on demand.
Cost Savings: Reduce operational expenses through optimized resource usage.
Innovation: Accelerate development and deployment of new products or services.
Resilience: Minimize downtime with robust disaster recovery and failover systems.
Competitive Edge: Enhance time-to-market and customer satisfaction.

Designation : Sr. Data Analyst (BI / DWH)

Experience : 5 – 10 years

Job Location : Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Nationality : Saudi Arabian & Expatriate

Gender : NA

No of Vacancies : 02

Benefits : Accommodation, Annual Air Ticket, Annual Leaves As Per Labor Law, Medical Insurance, Annual Paid Leaves, Perks & Benefits As Per Labor Law & As Per The Company Policy

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities

Sr Data Analyst is responsible for integrating data from our sources and make BI Report and Dashboard with data warehouse.
Extract and integrate data from different sources to Data warehouse.
Create BI dashboards and reports.
Provide consultation and trainings to teams who work with BI Solutions.
Collaborate with business leads, application owners, end users and third-party contacts to design, implement and test data warehouse applications in a phased manner.
Develop and test unit, system, performance with regression on ETL mappings.

Desired Candidate Profile

Experience 4 yrs. in the same position.
Excellent experience in SQL.
Proven Experience with Data warehouse.
Proven Experience with Business Intelligence tool (Qlik, OBIEE).
4years of hands-on experience in design and implementation of ETL framework for complex data warehouse projects.
Excellent knowledge of relational data modeling (ERD), SQL and data warehousing.
Experience in multiple database platforms, including POSTGRES, SQL Server, Oracle.
Hands-on experience in writing complex T-SQL and database performance tuning.
Should have expert level experience in building data lakes and data marts by working with each business unit and building high impact BI reports ,data warehouse projects
Good knowledge with MS office (Excel, Word ETC).

Education : BE/B.Sc. Computers or B. Tech in Computers

Employment Type : Full Time

Company Industry : IT Software and Services

Department/Functional Area : IT Software

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Designation : DATA SCIENTIST

Experience : 7 – 12 years

Job Location : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Nationality : Saudi Arabian & Expatriate

Gender : NA

No of Vacancies : 03

Benefits : Accommodation, Annual Air Ticket, Annual Leaves As Per Labor Law, Medical Insurance, Annual Paid Leaves, Perks & Benefits As Per Labor Law & As Per The Company Policy

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities

Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes
Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms
Combine models through ensemble modeling
Present information using data visualization techniques
Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
Collaborate with engineering and product development teamsDesired Candidate Profile
Proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst Experience in data mining
Understanding of machine-learning and operations research
Knowledge of R, SQL and Python; familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is an asset
Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau) and data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop) Analytical mind and business acumen Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra)
Problem-solving aptitude
Excellent communication and presentation skillsEducation
BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Science or other quantitative field is preferredEmployment Type : Full TimeCompany Industry : Consulting / Management Consulting / Advisory ServicesDepartment/Functional Area : IT Software

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Designation : Python Developer

Experience : 10 – 15 years

Job Location : Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia and Remote Basis As well

Nationality : Saudi Arabian & Expatriate

Gender : NA

No of Vacancies : 02

Benefits : Accommodation, Annual Air Ticket, Annual Leaves As Per Labor Law, Medical Insurance, Annual Paid Leaves, Perks & Benefits As Per Labor Law & As Per The Company Policy

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities

Product development with the ability to influence the adoption of architectural decisions of both individual services and the entire ecosystem;
Refactoring and rearchitecting code;
Completion of the administrative interface on Django;
Extension of the Dashboard functionality for technical support based on Django;
Integration with RabbitMQ message queue;

Technologies on the project: Python (Django), DRF, celery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and other databases; WebSocket, REST, gRPC Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ.

Desired Candidate Profile

Experience in commercial development on the Django Framework;
Knowledge and ability to use: iterators, generators, streams;
Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL; Compliance with the principles of SOLID, DRY, KISS etc;
Experience with Git, GitHub/GitLab, common Git based development workflows and code review;
Experience with decimals and clear understanding of floating point error;
Strong knowledge of SQL.
Experience in commercial development on the Django Framework;
Knowledge and ability to use: iterators, generators, streams;
Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL;
Compliance with the principles of SOLID, DRY, KISS etc;
Experience with decimals and clear understanding of floating point error;
Experience with Git, GitHub/GitLab, common Git based development workflows and code review;
Strong knowledge of SQL.

Preferably:

Possession of basic knowledge of parallelism, multithreading, non-blocking calls; Ability to write unit and integration tests;
The desire to write neat and understandable code with comments;
Knowledge of OOP and design patterns, and the practice of their application;
General understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery;
Experience with microservice architecture;
Experience refactoring and / or rearchitecting code;
Experience with big data;
Understanding of blockchain structures, nodes, and API endpoints.

Education : Bachelor of Technology / Engineering or Bachelor of Science in Computers

Employment Type : Full Time

Working Format : Office, Hybrid, Remote

Company Industry : Banking / Financial Services / Broking

Department/Functional Area : IT Department

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Designation : TELECOM ENGINEER

Experience : 2 – 8 years

Job Location : Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Nationality : Any

Gender : NA

No of Vacancies : 05

Benefits : As per company policies for all the employees

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities

Lead Team of technicians for telecom / Civil Activities on Sites.
Plan installation & commissioning activities.
Install and align equipment in accordance to installation documentation and instructions
Equipment powered-up
Equipment Test Documentation compiled
Ensure that quality and safety breaches are reported, recorded, investigated and appropriate corrective actions taken.
Ability to multi-task and maintain composure in stressful and demanding work environment
Must be a team player and have excellent interpersonal communication skills
Conclude installation & commissioning activities and report to implementation coordinator.
Perform various audits and tests, upgrades and maintenance when required
Perform repairs, emergency repairs and restore services when required
Understand instructions to the work order and plans
Apply the rules of Health and Safety at work
Understand and strictly adhere to safety practices and guidelines
Other duties as assigned by implementation coordinator.

Desired Candidate Profile

Must have a Bachelor degree in a Telecommunication Engineering.
Total experience in general telecommunications field not less than 3 years
ṣ Males only

Education : Bachelor of Technology / Engineering (Electronics / Telecommunication)

Employment Type : Full Time

Company Industry : Telecom Industry / Consultation / ISP

Department/Functional Area : Telecom Engineering / Communications Engineering

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Designation : BI Developer (Saudi National Only)

Experience : 4 – 8 years

Job Location : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Nationality : Saudi Arabian National

Gender : NA

No of Vacancies : 02

Benefits : As per company policies as well as the Ministry of Labor of Saudi Arabia

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities • Translate business needs to technical specifications. • Design, build and deploy BI solutions (e.g., reporting tools) • Develop solutions for the existing SQL Server and Oracle database related to performance tuning and query optimization. • Analyze and tune query execution plans and fix performance issues.

Desired Candidate Profile • 1-3 years of experience as a BI Developer. • Must have proficiency with SQL (MS SQL SERVER, ORACLE PL/SQL) and all objects in the database. • Good acknowledgment for POWER BI AND DAX (and python preferred) and advanced Microsoft Excel • Knowledge of data modeling concepts is a must. • Good Knowledge of ETL concepts and one of its tools. • Must have experience working on large-scale projects as well as handling day-to-day operational requests from the business. • Understanding of Indices, fundamentals, analytical data, returns level data, etc. • Experience in SQL Server, and Oracle database infrastructure. • Experience in SSRS tools. • Visual reporting and best practices for tools such as SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services), Power BI, Business Objects, etc.

Education : Bachelor of Technology/Engineering (IT), Bachelor of Science (Computers)

Employment Type : Full Time

Company Industry : Medical / Healthcare / Diagnostics / Medical Devices

Department/Functional Area : IT Software

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Designation : Data Governance Director

Experience : 15 – 25 years

Job Location : Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Nationality : Any

Gender : NA

No of Vacancies : 01

Benefits : As per company policies as well as the Ministry of Labor of Saudi Arabia

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities

To establish and embed formal Data Governance processes within our existing and future strategic projects
To identify areas of opportunity with regards to data quality, and lead initiatives to resolve long-standing quality issues
Provide expert consultative guidance in areas such as (but not limited to) data migration, document management and data quality
To help build a robust data governance framework to drive a demonstrable improvement in data quality across all in-scope data
To meet the customer experience, service and delivery requirements of company and shareholders.
Embedding industry standard Data Governance processes into existing strategic projects, and initiating new Data Quality initiatives in a fluctuating and pro-active organization
Impacting on the culture of the organization to recognize data as an asset
Supporting the migration of data from legacy sources (including EUCs) to strategic toolsets
Bringing executive policies to life to ensure they are adopted and measurable across the business
Building effective relationships across the Company, Shareholder and Supplier organizations that enable open and honest exchanges and foster trust and respect
Own the approach to establishing formal Data Governance processes across in-scope projects
Drive results on high profile strategic projects that require support in areas such as data migration, document/ contract management and data quality
Manage and embed Data Quality projects/ initiatives that will deliver tangible data quality improvement through root cause analysis, data cleansing etc.
Support the definition of a governance framework and chair or administrate appropriate forums
Engage a network of business stakeholders and manage relations between them and the central Data Management team
Develop education tools and documentation to support our stakeholders
Support the delivery of the Data Management communications plan to help establish a cultural change in how data is perceived and managed at the company
Work collaboratively with company and shareholder and the supplier eco system to establish and drive best Data Quality practice

Desired Candidate Profile

More than 10 years of experience leading data management agenda, with proven know-how in leading major Data transformation programs.
Preferred degree in business, information management, computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
Technical expertise regarding data models, database design development, data mining and segmentation technique.
Knowledge in agile methodologies and enterprise resource planning implementation.
Good knowledge of SDLC and various Software development frameworks (Agile, Iterative, DEVOPS)
Insurance knowledge or experience required
Experienced Tester in the GCC Region
Keen to develop and learn rapidly
communication skills both oral and in writing Experience of working in agile environment.
Proactive and willing to contribute ideas / opinions
Should be flexible and willing to work extra hours

Education : Bachelors in Computer Application (Computers)

Employment Type : Full Time

Company Industry : Retail Industry

Department/Functional Area : Engineering and IT

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Designation : Data Engineer

Experience : 5 – 8 years

Job Location : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Nationality : Any

Gender : NA

No of Vacancies : 02

Benefits : As per company policies as well as the Ministry of Labor of Saudi Arabia

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities

Collaborate with several stakeholders to deeply understand the needs of data practitioners to deliver at scale
Data Engineers help to define, build and maintain Data Platform
Work on emerging technologies, building distributed applications
Development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards.
Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.
Help to further develop critical initiatives, such as Data Discovery, Data Lineage and Data Quality
Build data systems, pipelines, analytical tools and programs
Conduct complex data analysis and report on results

Desired Candidate Profile

5+ Years of Experience
Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, IT, or similar field
5 Years of Experience as a data engineer or similar role
Must have experience executing projects end to end.
Technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques
Deep understanding, both conceptually and in practice of at least one object orientated library (Python, Scala)
Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of existing SQL warehouses and relational databases.
Strong Spark, PySpark, Spark SQL skills and good understanding of distributed processing frameworks.
Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines.

Education : Bachelor of Technology (IT / Computers) / Engineering (Computers), Bachelor of Science (Computers / IT)

Employment Type : Full Time

Company Industry : IT Software Services

Department/Functional Area : IT Software

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Designation : Informatica Developer

Experience : 3 – 7 years

Job Location : Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Nationality : Any

Gender : NA

No of Vacancies : 02

Benefits : As per company policies as well as the Ministry of Labor of Saudi Arabia

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities

We are looking to hire an Informatica developer with the following specifications:
Handling all Informatica Tools (EDC / DQ Dev / Informatica Analyst / MDM) for two environments (Dev Test) by:
Add connections for each technology by approval from Business Owners
Handling the integration between the tools (EDC DQ Tools MDM )
Controlling both environments are well proper working
Reflect all activities that have been developed in Preprod and Prod to be in Dev & Test
Ensure that all activities are synched between the two environment (Dev & Test)
Solve issues that occur in both environments
Holding any activities that will ensure the both environment (Dev / Test) from infrastructure perspective such as (Upgrading / Releases, etc.).
Handle user creation in Dev/Test environment.
Handle mapping jobs, trust scores changes & creating the required attributes and tables based on business requirements.
Handle refresh batches jobs and fixing issues related to MDM informatica.

Desired Candidate Profile

3 to 5 years of experience in Informatica EDC / DQ Dev / Informatica Analyst / MDM along with experience in big data technologies
Experience of working on Enterprise big data distribution such as Cloudera. Exposure to big data components HDFS, HiveQL, Spark, HBase, Impala is essential
Experience in delivering data pipelines using Cloudera distributions
Knowledge of data governance tool Informatica EDC is desirable
Experience in data governance activities, particularly corresponding to data lineage, data catalog, data discovery and metadata management
Ability to work in a dynamic cross-functional teams including business teams, solution architects and data engineers.

Education : Bachelor of Technology (IT / Computers) / Engineering (Computers), Bachelor of Science (Computers / IT)

Employment Type : Full Time

Company Industry : IT Software Services

Department/Functional Area : IT Software

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