Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist

Aramco Overseas Company; 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

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Title: Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist

Description:

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist to join our Corporate Data Office to strengthen Corporate-wide data governance capabilities and enable trusted, well-architected, high-quality data.

The Corporate Data Office is responsible for establishing and executing world-class Corporate-wide data governance to ensure all data assets are proactively and efficiently governed and managed across Saudi Aramco, to foster a data driven organization and promote data value realization in line with its strategic goals as well to adequately comply with national and international data regulations.

Your primary role will be to translate governance policies and standards into practical operating processes, data architecture deliverables, measurable data quality controls, and effective use of corporate data governance platforms. This role partners with business data owners, data stewards, technology teams, and other stakeholders to improve accountability, discoverability, consistency, and reliability of critical data assets.

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

Job Posting Duration

Job posting start date: 10/26/2026

Job posting end date: 10/26/2027

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.