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Role: Enterprise / Data Architect Location: Jeddah- Onsite Program: Data Lakehouse Implementation Domain: Banking & Financial Services (BFSI) Role Summary My client is seeking an experienced Enterprise / Data Architect to lead the design, governance, and evolution of an enterprise-scale Data Lakehouse platform.
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Role Summary
My client is seeking an experienced Enterprise / Data Architect to lead the design, governance, and evolution of an enterprise-scale Data Lakehouse platform.
The role will be responsible for ensuring architectural alignment across Cloudera, Teradata, Informatica, and Denodo ecosystems while driving platform modernization, remediation, governance, and future-state expansion initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and govern the end-to-end Data Lakehouse architecture, covering data ingestion, storage, processing, consumption, and governance.
- Define and enforce target-state architecture, including Medallion (Bronze, Silver, Gold) design principles.
- Ensure seamless integration across Cloudera, Teradata, Informatica, Denodo, and related data platforms.
- Assess existing data architecture, identify gaps, and define remediation and modernization strategies.
- Govern enterprise data models, data standards, aggregation frameworks, and reporting readiness.
- Ensure compliance with data governance, security, metadata, lineage, and regulatory requirements.
- Define architecture patterns for scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.
- Lead architecture reviews and collaborate with business, governance, security, and technology stakeholders.
Required Skills
- Strong experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, and Data Lakehouse modernization.
- Deep understanding of Medallion Architecture and enterprise data modeling frameworks.
- Experience with:
• Cloudera CDP (Spark, Hive, Kafka, HDFS)
- Teradata Vantage
• Informatica BDM / PowerExchange
- Denodo
- Kafka-based data integration
- Strong knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, data quality, security, and governance frameworks.
- Expertise in performance optimization, scalability planning, and resilient architecture design.
Preferred Experience
- Strong BFSI domain experience with exposure to enterprise banking data models such as FSLDM and FSAS.
- Experience supporting regulatory, audit, and compliance-driven data programs.
- Proven track record delivering large-scale data transformation and modernization initiatives.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in Enterprise Data Architecture or related leadership roles.
- Experience leading complex enterprise data platform programs in BFSI environments.
- Architecture certifications and advanced data engineering background are advantageous.
- *** Only successful candidates will be contacted ***
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