Data Governance SME Operational Digital Twin

Overview

Data Governance SME

What You ll Be Doing

• Support the Product Manager and Data & Architecture team in defining data governance objectives, scope, and priorities for the Operational Digital Twin across planning, operations, and maintenance domains.
• Assist in establishing and documenting data governance frameworks, policies, roles, and processes, including data ownership, stewardship, issue management, and change control.
• Help identify and catalogue critical data domains (e.g., assets, network, locations, work orders, sensors), and support the development and maintenance of related data dictionaries, business glossaries, and metadata.
• Support data-quality management activities by defining quality rules and KPIs, assisting with profiling and assessment, and tracking remediation actions with relevant stakeholders.
• Assist in coordinating master and reference data management activities in collaboration with the Data Architect / Ontologist, GIS team, and enterprise system owners.
• Support compliance with relevant data protection, privacy, and security policies by working with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to embed governance requirements into solution design and operations.
• Assist in preparing data-governance documentation, guidelines, and training materials, and in running awareness sessions and workshops with client data owners and stewards.

What Required Skills You ll Bring

• Degree in information management, computer science, engineering, or related discipline from an accredited institution
• Experience supporting data governance, data management, or information management activities for large-scale digital, platform, or enterprise solutions in infrastructure, utilities, or urban environments
• Experience of establishing data governance concepts to support Esri ArcGIS implementations
• Working knowledge of core data-governance concepts, including data ownership and stewardship, data-quality management, metadata management, and master / reference data management
• Comprehensive understanding of data and information architecture concepts, particularly for geospatial, time-series, and asset / network data, and how these support operational use cases.
• Exposure to enterprise and operational systems such as EAM/CMMS, ERP, BIM, SCADA/IoT platforms, GIS, and data warehouses/lakes.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary, multinational teams across multiple time zones.
• Strong organisational and coordination skills.
• Exposure to testing, acceptance, or go-live activities for complex or integrated data platforms.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to clearly convey data-governance concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.

What Desired Skills You ll Bring

• Prior work with national infrastructure owners, transport authorities, utilities, or public works organisations.
• Professional certifications in data management or governance
• Arabic is an advantage.