خبير تنفيذ إدارة وحوكمة البيانات (Data Management & Governance Implementation Expert)

Job Summary

This role involves designing and implementing enterprise data management, governance, and analytics solutions for clients in Saudi Arabia, combining regulatory compliance knowledge with technical expertise across the data lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support full lifecycle delivery of data management and governance projects, including assessment, design, configuration, testing, deployment, and handover.
• Evaluate clients’ data environments and governance practices, identifying gaps and creating implementation roadmaps.
• Design and implement vendor-neutral enterprise data architectures covering ingestion, integration, storage, processing, analytics, and consumption.
• Configure and integrate data governance platforms and tools such as data catalogs, metadata repositories, and policy enforcement systems.
• Implement data quality frameworks including profiling, validation, issue management, and remediation tracking.
• Support master and reference data management capabilities including data models, golden records, and governance workflows.
• Develop data integration pipelines for batch, real-time, API-based, and various data formats.
• Implement security and access controls including role-based access, encryption, audit logging, and integration with identity management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 5-8 years of experience in data management, governance, engineering, enterprise data platforms, or related consulting and implementation roles.
• Proven hands-on experience delivering data management and governance projects in Saudi Arabia, preferably for government or regulated entities.
• Experience implementing or configuring data governance, metadata management, data catalog, data lineage, data quality, master data, reference data, data integration, or enterprise analytics solutions.
• Good understanding of National Data Management Office requirements, National Data Index, and Saudi data management, governance, and personal data protection standards.
• Solid knowledge of modern data architectures including data warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, batch and streaming integration, APIs, data modeling, and analytics platforms.
• Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, APIs, integration patterns, and at least one scripting or programming language used in data projects.
• Experience with on-premises, cloud, or hybrid data environments and familiarity with containerized and scalable platform architectures is preferred.
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, COBIT, TOGAF, or other data management and governance frameworks or certifications is preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Must be currently based in Saudi Arabia and available for client-site work as needed.

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