Lead Data Architect: Enterprise Platforms & Governance

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture, governance, and management initiatives across cloud and on-premises environments. The role focuses on EDM, metadata management, data quality, lineage, and architecture governance to support analytics, AI/ML, and digital transformation.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, governance teams, and data owners to establish trusted, secure, governed enterprise data environments and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience building enterprise data platforms and governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture standards and roadmaps.
• Govern enterprise data architecture and data management frameworks.
• Define and implement Data Governance operating models and controls.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for enterprise domains.
• Lead Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and Lakehouse initiatives.
• Establish Data Quality frameworks, monitoring, and improvement practices.
• Define data classification standards and governance across domains.
• Implement Metadata Management strategies for discoverability and governance.
• Establish Data Lineage for end-to-end visibility of data assets.
• Drive Architecture Governance and ensure alignment with standards.
• Define data retention, lifecycle, and regulatory compliance policies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into sustainable data architectures.
• Partner with governance teams to improve data management maturity.
• Design scalable cloud and hybrid data platforms for reporting and analytics.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance forums.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Data governance

Data quality

Metadata management

Data lineage

Architecture governance

Data Warehouse

Data Lake

Lakehouse

Azure data services

SQL Server/Oracle/PostgreSQL

BI architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Microsoft Azure data services

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Lake

Synapse Analytics

Azure SQL

Job description

Datamatics-Global-Services-Ltd is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture, governance, and management initiatives across cloud and on-premises environments. The role focuses on EDM, metadata management, data quality, lineage, and architecture governance to support analytics, AI/ML, and digital transformation.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, governance teams, and data owners to establish trusted, secure, governed enterprise data environments and