Gargash Group

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   About the Role
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  : This is a hands-on technical role responsible for the day-to-day administration, operational stability, and security posture of the Group&rsquo;s Microsoft 365 tenant and Microsoft Azure environment. The role holder will ensure that the tenant and cloud environment are administered to a professional standard, secure by default, licensed correctly, fully documented, and aligned with Group security and compliance requirements.
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    Microsoft 365 Administration
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   Administer the Microsoft 365 tenant on a day-to-day basis, including Exchange Online (mailboxes, distribution lists, mail flow, transport rules), SharePoint and OneDrive (sites, sharing policies, retention), and Microsoft Teams (teams, channels, policies, voice configuration where applicable).
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   Manage Intune / Endpoint Manager configuration: device enrolment, compliance policies, configuration profiles, application deployment, and conditional access integration.
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   Operate Microsoft Purview controls in coordination with Cybersecurity and Risk &amp; Governance &mdash; data loss prevention, retention labels, sensitivity labels, eDiscovery requests.
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   Maintain tenant hygiene: unused mailboxes, shared mailbox sprawl, orphaned guest accounts, stale Teams and SharePoint sites.
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    Identity &amp; Access Management
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   Administer Entra ID (Azure AD): user lifecycle, group management, application registrations, enterprise applications, service principals.
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   Implement and maintain Conditional Access policies, MFA enforcement, sign-in risk policies, and named locations in line with the Group security baseline.
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   Operate Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for just-in-time elevation of administrative roles; conduct periodic access reviews.
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   Support the migration from on-premises Active Directory to a cloud-native Entra ID environment, including hybrid identity synchronisation and the phased decommissioning of legacy domain controllers.
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   Partner with the Cybersecurity and Applications teams on identity and access management, maintaining identity hygiene across the estate.
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    Azure Administration
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   Administer Azure subscriptions, resource groups, and management groups under the Group&rsquo;s tenant governance model.
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   Provision, configure, and maintain Azure IaaS (virtual machines, storage, networking) and PaaS services in line with architectural standards set with the Enterprise Architect.
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   Operate Azure Key Vault &mdash; secret, key, and certificate lifecycle management, access policies, and integration with application teams.
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   Configure and monitor Azure Backup, Site Recovery, and disaster-recovery components for in-scope workloads, sharing the backup and recovery support load with the Cybersecurity, Applications, and Infrastructure teams.
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   Use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and cost-management tooling to track resource health, utilisation, and spend.
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    Licensing &amp; Cost Control
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   Administer licence assignment across the Microsoft 365 / Azure estate, including group-based licensing where appropriate.
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   Maintain an accurate, evergreen view of licence consumption versus entitlement under the EA and any CSP arrangements; flag over- and under-utilisation.
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   Track Azure consumption against budget and reservation commitments; raise variances to the Head of Technology Service Delivery and Enterprise Architect.
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   Support the annual EA true-up and renewal cycle with data, reconciliation, and recommendations.
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    Security &amp; Compliance Operations
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   Operate Microsoft Defender (Endpoint, Identity, Office 365, Cloud) consoles in coordination with the Cybersecurity team; action alerts within agreed L2 scope and escalate as required.
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   Support the Cybersecurity function with tenant-side configuration changes required by ISMS, audit, or incident-response activity.
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   Maintain hardening baselines for tenant configuration in line with Microsoft Secure Score and CIS benchmarks; track drift and remediation.
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   Participate in vulnerability remediation, patching, and configuration-change activity affecting Microsoft cloud workloads.
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    Service Operations &amp; Incident Response
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   Act as second-line escalation for service desk tickets relating to Microsoft 365 and Azure services; resolve incidents within agreed SLAs.
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   Participate in problem management &mdash; root-cause analysis for recurring incidents, with documented remediation.
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   Execute changes through the Group change-management process; produce implementation, test, and rollback plans.
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   Contribute to major incident response on-call rotation as agreed with the Head of Technology Service Delivery.
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    Documentation &amp; Knowledge
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   Maintain accurate, current documentation of tenant configuration, Azure architecture, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
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   Produce knowledge-base articles and self-service guidance to deflect repeat L1 tickets.
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   Support audit and assurance activity (internal audit, ISMS, OEM and regulatory reviews) with evidence packs on demand.
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    Cross-Functional Collaboration
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   Work closely with the Cybersecurity, Risk &amp; Governance, Applications, and Enterprise Architecture functions to ensure tenant and cloud changes are reviewed, approved, and aligned to Group standards.
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   Engage directly with Microsoft (account team, FastTrack, support) and the Group&rsquo;s licensing reseller to maximise value from existing agreements.
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   Coordinate with business units&rsquo; technology liaisons on tenant-affecting changes and major rollouts (Teams Phone, new SharePoint estates, and similar).
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   Qualifications
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   Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience administering Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure in a production enterprise environment.
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   Deep practical knowledge of Entra ID (Azure AD), Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, and Intune / Endpoint Manager.
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   Demonstrable Azure administration experience covering IaaS, PaaS, virtual networking, storage, Key Vault, Backup, and Monitor.
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   Hands-on experience migrating on-premises Active Directory
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Microsoft 365 & Azure Administrator (L2)

The Emirates Group

<div><h5 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Job Purpose<br>
</b></h5> <p>At Emirates Group our Analytics Centre of Excellence (ACoE) is a centralized unit that provides data and analytics support to Emirates Group businesses. This allows our businesses to make better decisions by using data and analytics to understand our customers, operations, and markets.The ACoE is an essential part of Emirates Group's digital transformation strategy. The unit is helping Emirates Group to become a more data-driven organization and to make better decisions by using data and analytics.<br>
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<p>As a <b>Data Scientist Team Lead </b>you will manage and drive data science projects through the application of mathematical modelling, machine learning, problem structuring and big data analysis to solve complex business problems across the Emirates Group portfolio. The role will require strong skills in computer science, mathematics, statistics and creative problem solving. The job holder is a focused individual who is able to transcend the world of theory, bring it to life in the business context and collaborate successfully with cross functional teams including academic researchers, business stakeholders and information technology teams.<br>
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<p><b>In this role you will:
</b></p><div><ul><li>Manage team of Data Scientists, ensuring the culture, strategy and vision are passed to the teams. Aligned with the DS and EA leadership, review team capabilities and establish training/mentoring plan.
</li><li>Support and drive DS execution within team, targeting and developing relationships with the key internal stakeholders and clients to continue to drive practice demand growth.
</li><li>Derive business insight from large, structured, semi-structured and unstructured, data sets and work with business stakeholders to deploy insights derived from this analysis to extract commercial value.
</li><li>Develop, formulate and execute big data models to solve complex business problems. Research, design, implement and validate cutting-edge algorithms to achieve targeted business outcomes using mathematical models, machine learning, operational research theories and dynamic simulations.
</li><li>Build prescriptive models to identify multi-dimensional trends and patterns to understand our customers, optimise revenue and demand management plus drive efficiencies across the operational environment including aircraft operations, engineering, workforce management and catering.
</li><li>Work with cross-functional team members, combining computer science and mathematics, to identify and inject high-value actionable insights into business processes at their point of highest impact. Work in quick iterations, using the techniques and algorithms best suited for solving the challenging problems of the aviation business.
</li><li>Develop and recommend enhancements to existing tools with the goal of advancing the data science capabilities of the organisation. Perform validation and testing of models to ensure adequacy and reformulate models as necessary.
</li><li>Clearly document and communicate the outcomes of the data science initiatives and make sure that the insights and findings can be clearly understood by business stakeholders and translated into actions.
</li>Inspire and promote the adoption of advanced analytics and data science across the entirety of our organization and provide expertise on mathematical concepts for the broader applied analytics team.<br>
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<h5 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Qualification
</b></h5><p><b>To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:
 </b></p><p><b>Qualifications:
</b></p><div><ul><li>MSc/PhD in a relevant field such as data science, operations research, mathematics, science, data mining, artificial intelligence, applied statistics, machine learning or economics.
 </li></ul></div><p><b>Experience:
</b></p><div><ul><li>7-10+ years of hands-on experience in the Analytics ecosystem including:
</li></ul></div><div><div><div><div><ul><li>Experience Managing Data Science or Analytics Teams or acting as Manager in a consulting company.
</li></ul><ul><li>3-5 years hands-on experience with big data technologies (Spark and Hadoop ecosystem) and deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, Keras, etc.).
</li></ul><ul><li>5-7 years hands-on experience with SQL, R, Python.
</li></ul><ul><li>2-4 years hands-on experience with DevOps frameworks (Git, CI/CD, Docker).
</li></ul><ul><li>3-5 years hands-on experience building libraries and packages to be re-used by others.
</li></ul><ul><li>3-5 years hands-on experience building DS Solutions for production usage.
</li></ul><ul><li>Team player with a problem-solving attitude.
</li></ul><ul><li>Experience of leading &amp; delivering advanced analytical projects to large, complex organisations in a multi-functional environment.
</li></ul><ul><li>Able to challenge and review the quality and value generated from analytical output.
</li></ul>Focus on driving business value for business clients to support long term relationships. Ability to grow teams, ensuring the culture and strategy gets followed by the new hires.<br>
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<p>Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That&rsquo;s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more.
</p><h5 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Salary &amp; benefits
</b></h5><p>Find out what it&rsquo;s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers</p></div>

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