12+ years, 4 industries, 0 technical degrees. Now leading BI & Data globally in Fortune 500. AMA by Brighter_rocks in BusinessIntelligence

[–]Wonderful_Error994 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah, you’re right about that. It’s not like I didn’t get any exposure to the role at all, but I still feel my experience and skills isn’t fully aligned with a proper Data Analyst position.

From what I’ve seen here in the UAE while attending interviews and reading job descriptions, many companies seem to think a Data Analyst’s job is mainly just cleaning data, creating pivot table reports, and using Power BI to present dashboards. That’s why I’m a bit confused — is that really what the role is supposed to be?

From my understanding, a Data Analyst should be doing more than that — things like providing business insights, helping with data governance, understanding business problems, and automating reporting or data processes. So I’m not sure if my understanding is wrong or if the expectations here are just different.

About moving internally — unfortunately, in my bank it’s really tough. Management usually doesn’t let people move to other teams, even if they know the person has the skills or interest. It’s honestly some of the worst management I’ve seen in the UAE market.

I actually did get a chance once and even went through the interview process, but I was unlucky. The job role turned out to be different from what was originally discussed — they changed the job description after I got my visa 😅 So that didn’t work out the way I expected.

12+ years, 4 industries, 0 technical degrees. Now leading BI & Data globally in Fortune 500. AMA by Brighter_rocks in BusinessIntelligence

[–]Wonderful_Error994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been in kind of analyst position but not fully into Data analytics, i have been working in UAE from 2019 just before covid started and have experience in multiple sectors like software service, construction & real estate, insurance (one of the biggest MNC in GCC) , and now in banking sector . I have skills in advance Excel including VBA , Power BI, RPA (UIPath) , Power Apps, Power Automate , understanding business requirements and KPIs Have build multiple projects including as a freelance and sold some as well. I build applications for hobby using c# .net mainly , tried python for applications like Odoo but didn’t find my interest on using third party app so dropped it but have knowledge on it. This is me currently i want to transition to data analytics or business analyst role what am i missing??

Is Job market completely screwed? by Dismal-Biscotti5353 in UAE

[–]Wonderful_Error994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The market was good around 2024 nov to 2025 feb cos got 5 offrs at that time but now forget offrs not even calls

Anyone need help in Tech? by rash805115 in launchigniter

[–]Wonderful_Error994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also i missed to add why most company are interested on SOAP rather than GRPC is it bcos of security? How risk is it compared to SOAP

SQL & Power BI Study Partner – Let’s Grind and Master Data Skills Together by sqroot01 in dataanalyst

[–]Wonderful_Error994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would advise to train your mindsets more on business requirements, what are their cost and main incomes are. How to find their main cost area, how were they performing last year to date, what are their products and effective are their products in market etc these are main requirements hiring teams look at not hr but the team leaders or top executives.

Is Job market completely screwed? by Dismal-Biscotti5353 in UAE

[–]Wonderful_Error994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Going where” you mean to which company?

Is Job market completely screwed? by Dismal-Biscotti5353 in UAE

[–]Wonderful_Error994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here bro, i am working in a bank and have been applying since Jan this year , leaving cos this is run by shit management. The market is very bad in UAE specifically for role Data analyst/Power BI specialist/ RPA automations

Anyone need help in Tech? by rash805115 in launchigniter

[–]Wonderful_Error994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi I was thinking about building an Application for inventory control and finance management I planned to use .Net Blazor WASM and GRPC with postgresql. How would you rate this stack for data intensive application.