Wael Muhammad

Head of AI

Dubai, United Arab Emirates15 yrs 10 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of experience in data strategy and architecture.
  • Led successful data localization projects for MasterCard in EMEA.
  • PhD researcher focusing on AI for advanced risk management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Data Analytics expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Cloud InfrastructureData WarehousingData AnalysisData ScienceData Integration

Other Skills

Big DataCompliance AuditingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Financial ManagementData ModelsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsArchitectsData ReportingMicrosoft AzurePersonal Data ProtectionInformaticaMicrosoft FabricData PrivacyHigh-Level Design

About

Wael is a data strategist/architect and people manager with over 15 years of experience in the data field. He currently leads the Database & Analytics Platform team using a (MDS) modern data stack, where he leverages large volumes of customer data to gain insights, support decision-making, and create predictive models for business improvement. He is also a university lecturer and a PhD researcher in Corporate Intelligence, focusing on AI for advanced risk management. Previously, Wael worked as a Data Architect and a Business Intelligence Manager for several multinational companies across different industries, such as Vodafone, Kraft Heinz, and Cleveland Clinic. He was responsible for creating, optimizing, and supporting business-critical production databases and data warehouse applications. He also worked as a Service Delivery Manager, ensuring 99% service availability for the infrastructure team. Wael has multiple certifications in data-related fields, such as PMP, SQL on Hadoop, and Data Visualization using Tableau. He is fluent in English and Spanish and has worked in different countries, such as Ireland, Qatar, Spain, and the Netherlands.

Experience

15 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Stc bahrain

Head of AI initiatives

Aug 2025Present · 9 mos · Bahrain · Remote

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud InfrastructureBig Data

Europol

Senior AI & Data solution Architect.

Jan 2025Jul 2025 · 6 mos · Netherlands · Hybrid

Data WarehousingCompliance AuditingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Financial ManagementData ModelsAmazon Web Services (AWS)+38

Central bank of ireland

(AI & Data ) - Architecture & Strategy lead

Jan 2024Dec 2024 · 11 mos · Dublin · Hybrid

Data WarehousingCompliance AuditingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Financial ManagementData ModelsDatabases+42

Mastercard

Manager, Database & Analytics platform

Aug 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • I am leading 10 high-skilled level data Engineers in different database technologies including (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL servers, MongoDB, Redis & and Cassandra) across, Europe & and India
  • Our mission is to build and localize the Mastercard data into new regions that match the new GDPR, countries' regularization, and data accessibility between global and on-soil.
  • We design, build, and maintain a high scalable ELT mechanism to transform our data for Reporting and analytics taking in consideration a well define performance KPI’s data quality after transformation,
  • Data lineage and data governance measures.
  • Up till now, I have delivered a full blueprint, architecture designs, implementation run books, and a full success delivery for a localization project for MasterCard in EMEA year 2022/2023 ahead of the planned schedule.
Data WarehousingCompliance AuditingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Financial ManagementData ModelsAmazon Web Services (AWS)+38

Technological university dublin

University Lecturer - Business Information Systems

Sep 2021Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland · Remote

Data AnalysisData ScienceMicrosoft FabricBig DataPython (Programming Language)Statistical Data Analysis+6

Ibm

4 roles

Business Intelligence Support manager - (Global Team) -

Aug 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr

Data WarehousingCompliance AuditingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Financial ManagementData ModelsAmazon Web Services (AWS)+35

Business Intelligence & Data platforms Technical Leader -(Ireland)-

Oct 2020Aug 2021 · 10 mos

Data WarehousingCompliance AuditingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Financial ManagementData ModelsAmazon Web Services (AWS)+35

Subject Matter Expert - ( BI & Data platform ) -GBS Ireland

Apr 2018Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • I’m working for IBM Global business services unit - and Lead projects for the Data Innovation team, that enables information sharing and intelligence production. It facilitates the analysis of large volumes of data through secure environments designed to integrate into your existing enterprise infrastructure.
  • I used to lead skilled level data engineers in the fields of AI & advanced data analytics as subject matter Expert
  • I use the most advanced technologies in the world for intelligence & advanced data analytics
  • like IBM i2 analyst notebook V9, IBM i2 iBase, Watson analytics (Cognos) & Tableau
  • My area of experience focuses on a project related to data analytics and the built of data platforms that related to financial crimes, Terrorism, Helth care & intelligence investigations
  • The team focus is largely on proof of concepts and prototyping, and do a lot of work as internal consultants for other IBM analytics projects.
  • My day-to-day involved:
  • Identifying useful new data sources in scope for acquisition.
  • Using statistical modeling to uncover new insights.
  • Studying the interactions between different data sources to find new applications.
  • Communicating new insights and tools to the business, and showing the value of data.
  • Researching and utilizing new technologies for data mining, modeling, and visualization.
  • Technologies I frequently used include IBM I2, Watson, Python, SPSS, MS SQL, Hadoop
Data WarehousingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Data ModelsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsArchitects+28

Data Architect - IBM Watson smarter talents

Jan 2016Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Data WarehousingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Data ModelsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsArchitects+25

Ntt data corporation

Service Delivery Manager – Data Analytics services

Aug 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Barcelona Area, Spain

  •  Everis is an NTT Data company in Spain and our client was the European patent office in The Hague Netherlands,
  •  As a Service Delivery Manager, I was engaged at the account level in providing visibility, service reviews, and reporting through all phases of the implementation life cycle, as well as working closely with other infrastructure teams to ensure that all changes to a customer’s environments are smoothly carried out while meeting capacity needs and service level agreements.
  •  I worked hand-in-hand with other Teams as well to:
  • Metadata & Master data management
  • Managing The data migration projects & Data platforms upgrades
  • Troubleshooting and maintaining multiple Database Server clusters,
  • Troubleshoot and Monitoring using DMVs & customized dashboards
  • Troubleshooting and maintaining Haigh availability solution issues.
  • Implementing and maintaining Always On for share point farms
  •  we achieved the target of 99 % service availability and high-level client satisfaction in supporting EPO decision making through intelligent Data manipulation
Data WarehousingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Data ModelsAnalyticsData AnalysisData Reporting+10

Diyar united company

Analytics & reporting / BI Engineer – AL Rayyan IT Unit

Jan 2014Jul 2014 · 6 mos · Qatar

  • Diyar United company is IT consultancy company specialized in Infrastructure and Datacenter services support.
  • Our client was Al-Rayyan for media and marketing Holding company and I had a mission to build the DWH structure and Manage the design for solid centralized reporting service and decision making support tools with fantasy Dashboard
  • Daily tasks included Data warehouse functional analysis and documentation.
  • Data warehouse technical analysis and documentation.
  • Data warehouse modeling.
  • Working in Microsoft platform, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Power Bi (Power View, Power Query, Power Maps, Power Pivot) and SharePoint.
Data WarehousingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Data ModelsAnalyticsData AnalysisData Reporting+9

Vodafone international services (vis)

Microsoft SQL server 2nd line support Engineer

Aug 2009Jan 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Egypt

  • I worked more than 5 years in Vodafone M-PESA project for international Money Transfer started as junior SQL DBA to a senior BI engineer with that period we built the DWH , HA & Reporting system for M-PESA project beside handling the DEV-OPS tasks in a daily basis
  • We as a team were supporting the database operation and maintenance for a database contains terabytes of client data with more that 1000 TPS (transaction per second)
  • Supporting 24x7x365 multistage environments including Production, DR, Staging, Performance as well as two QA and Development environments (about 75 TB of data in total) in multiple geographical locations including USA, Europe and China
Data WarehousingGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Data ModelsAnalyticsData AnalysisData Reporting+9

Education

Technological University Dublin

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Corporate Intelligence (AI for advanced risk management )

Jan 2021Jan 2027

Helwan University Cairo

Bachelor's degree — B.Sc. in commerce & business administration

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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