Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist (18558)

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Data Governance
• Implement and continuously improve corporate data governance policies, standards, procedures, and stewardship practices.
• Define and maintain data ownership, stewardship responsibilities, critical data elements, business glossaries, and governance workflows.
• Support governance forums, issue escalation, compliance assessments, adoption metrics, and remediation tracking.
• Data Architecture
• Develop and maintain conceptual and logical data models, data definitions, domain mappings, and architecture standards in collaboration with solution architects.
• Document data flows, system-of-record relationships, data integration patterns, and end-to-end lineage for priority data domains.
• Review solution designs for alignment with data standards, interoperability, reuse, and governance requirements.
• Data Quality
• Establish data quality dimensions, business rules, profiling methods, thresholds, and monitoring controls for critical data.
• Coordinate data quality assessments, root-cause analysis, remediation plans, and issue management with business and technical owners.
• Define scorecards, KPIs, and reporting to measure and communicate improvements in data quality.
• Data Governance Platform
• Support selection, configuration, deployment, integration, and ongoing enhancement of corporate data governance platforms.
• Configure and administer metadata catalogs, business glossaries, lineage, stewardship workflows, data quality capabilities, and role-based access as applicable.
• Drive platform onboarding, metadata ingestion, user acceptance testing, training, adoption, and operational support in partnership with IT and vendors.

Minimum Requirements

• You must have a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• You should have a minimum of 10 years relevant experience across data governance, data architecture, data quality, metadata management, or corporate data platforms, including hands-on delivery responsibilities.
• You should be able to demonstrate experience implementing governance frameworks, stewardship models, business glossaries, metadata catalogs, and data quality processes.
• Practical knowledge of data modeling, data integration, metadata, lineage, SQL, and data quality profiling and monitoring is also essential.
• You should have hands-on experience with at least one corporate data governance or catalog platform (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK principles and applicable data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements is required.
• You must also be able to demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement, analytical problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional delivery skills.

Work Location and Work Schedule

• Work location: Within Saudi Arabia – To be specified in Job offer
• Work schedule: Full Time - To be specified in Job offer

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