Data Architect

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise data architecture aligned with business strategy and enterprise architecture direction.
• Assess the current data landscape, including data sources, stores, applications, interfaces, ownership, duplication, and quality issues.
• Define target-state data architecture and transition roadmaps.
• Establish enterprise data domains and define relationships between domains, business capabilities, applications, and data owners.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and high-level physical data models as required.
• Define master data, reference data, transactional data, analytical data, and metadata architecture.
• Identify and document authoritative data sources and Systems of Record.
• Design data lineage, data flow, and information exchange models across business and technology environments.
• Define application-to-data relationships, CRUD responsibilities, and data ownership dependencies.
• Design enterprise data integration and data-sharing patterns, including APIs, batch integration, event-driven exchange, and data pipelines.
• Support architecture for data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, analytics platforms, and business intelligence environments.
• Define data architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Align data architecture with data governance, data quality, metadata management, privacy, security, and retention requirements.
• Support Master Data Management and Reference Data Management initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, data governance, application, integration, security, cloud, and infrastructure teams.
• Participate in architecture governance and solution design reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise data architecture.
• Support technology and platform evaluations related to databases, data integration, analytics, metadata, MDM, and data management platforms.
• Identify data-related risks, gaps, dependencies, duplication, ownership issues, and improvement opportunities.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in data architecture.

Work Environment

• This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves collaboration across various technical and business teams to achieve data architecture objectives.

Application Process

• Further details regarding the application process will be provided upon inquiry. Salary information for this position is not disclosed.