Specialist - Data Quality and Governance

About This Role

Job Description Data & AI Governance Program Management:

• Contribute to the implementation and operationalization of data and AI governance policies, standards, and procedures through governance tooling (Atlan).
• Translate governance requirements into configurations, workflows, and controls within the data governance platform.
• Support the technical execution of data stewardship and ownership models, ensuring governance policies are effectively applied and traceable.

Data Quality Assurance:

• Configure and support data quality rules, checks, and monitoring mechanisms within governance and data platforms.
• Support data profiling, quality assessments, and issue tracking through tooling and metadata-driven approaches.
• Assist in the definition and operationalization of data quality metrics and dashboards, in collaboration with data engineering and analytics teams.

Data Security and Compliance:

• Support the technical implementation of data security and privacy requirements (e.g. classification, sensitivity labels, access-related metadata) within governance and data platforms.
• Collaborate with security and IT teams to ensure governance tooling aligns with data protection, privacy, and compliance standards.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Training
• Engage with business units, IT, and analytics teams to promote data governance best practices.
• Provide training and guidance on data governance tools and policies.
• Facilitate workshops and forums to drive data stewardship culture.

Tool Implementation & Management:

• Administer, configure, and evolve Atlan as the central data governance platform, including catalog setup, metadata ingestion, stewardship roles, workflows, policies, and quality-related capabilities.
• Provide hands-on operational support to Data Stewards and technical users, including troubleshooting, configuration support, and enablement.
• Ensure effective integration between Atlan and core data platform technologies (e.g. Snowflake and Power BI) to support metadata synchronization, lineage, and governed data consumption.
• Stay up to date with Snowflake and Power BI governance-related capabilities and contribute to defining technical actions or standards within those platforms to strengthen end‑to‑end data governance.

Continuous Improvement & Technical Enablement:

• Monitor emerging data governance, data quality, and AI related technologies to identify opportunities to complement or enhance the current governance tooling ecosystem.
• Contribute to technical documentation, usage guidelines, and practical enablement materials related to governance tools and processes.

About Us AD Ports Group

A Global Player

Through organic growth and partnerships, AD Ports Group has developed over the years into an integrated premier enabler of trade, industrialisation, and economic diversification. Established by Emiri Decree and owned by ADQ, one of the region’s largest holding companies with a broad portfolio of major enterprises spanning key sectors of Abu Dhabi’s diversified economy.

AD Ports Group is committed to building elite trade and logistics propositions. As trade has grown, so have we. Today, we are an integrated business across 5 clusters – Digital, Economic Cities & Free Zones, Logistics, Maritime, and Ports connecting global maritime routes and international trading partners.

About The Team We offer exciting opportunities to people from different backgrounds and nationalities through internal career advancement programmes. Once a member of our staff, you have the chance to grow horizontally and vertically throughout your career journey with us.

“We are proud to be the first organization from the Middle East region to receive the prestigious Investors in People (IIP) Platinum accreditation.”

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