Senior Data Governance & Architecture Lead – Saudi Role

Aramco; As Sudiyah; On-site; OMR 36,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Aramco seeks a Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist to strengthen corporate data governance across the organization, ensuring trusted, well-architected, high-quality data.

The Corporate Data Office leads governance to ensure data assets are proactively governed and managed in line with strategic goals and regulatory requirements. You will translate policies into practical processes, data architecture deliverables, and governance workflows with business owners and IT teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience in data governance, data architecture, data quality, metadata management, or corporate data platforms.
• Hands-on delivery experience implementing governance frameworks, stewardship models, glossaries, metadata catalogs, and data quality processes.
• Experience with data modeling, data integration, metadata, lineage, SQL, and data quality profiling/monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with at least one governance or catalog platform (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Purview).
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK principles and data privacy, security, regulatory requirements.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, analytical problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional delivery skills.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Establish data quality dimensions, business rules, profiling methods, thresholds, and monitoring controls.
• Coordinate data quality assessments, root-cause analysis, remediation plans, and issue management with business/technical owners.
• Define scorecards, KPIs, and reporting to measure improvements in data quality.
• Support selection, configuration, deployment, integration, and ongoing enhancement of corporate data governance platforms.
• Configure metadata catalogs, business glossaries, lineage, stewardship workflows, data quality capabilities, and role-based access.
• Drive platform onboarding, metadata ingestion, user acceptance testing, training, adoption, and operational support with IT and vendors.

Skills

Data governance

Data architecture

Data quality

Metadata management

SQL

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional delivery

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Data Science/Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Collibra

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Aramco seeks a Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist to strengthen corporate data governance across the organization, ensuring trusted, well-architected, high-quality data.

The Corporate Data Office leads governance to ensure data assets are proactively governed and managed in line with strategic goals and regulatory requirements. You will translate policies into practical processes, data architecture deliverables, and governance workflows with business owners and IT teams.