Senior Data Governance & MDM Engineer

NTG; Muscat; On-site; OMR 23,070 - 30,760; Full time

Job summary

NTG is looking for a Senior Data Governance and MDM Specialist to ensure the national platform's data is governed, trusted, and compliant. Located on-site in Muscat, the role involves operationalizing data governance and managing master data.

Applicants should have a Bachelor's in Information Systems or Computer Science, with significant experience in data governance and MDM. Fluency in English is required, and knowledge of Arabic is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Experience running data governance, MDM, or data quality at an enterprise scale.
• Knowledge of cataloging, lineage, and business glossaries.
• Proven ability to solve real data quality problems.

Responsibilities

• Operationalize data governance, data catalog, lineage, and master data management.
• Define and steward master data and golden records.
• Implement data classification and retention aligned with data protection law.

Skills

Data governance

MDM (Master Data Management)

Data quality monitoring

Data classification

Stewardship operating model

Education

Bachelor's in Information Systems or Computer Science

Job description

Make a national platform's data trustworthy by design, owning governance, lineage, and master data, and the classification and retention that keep it compliant. RQMNA builds the sovereign data platforms that a nation trusts to hold and protect its most important data.

We are hiring a Senior Data Governance and MDM Specialist, on site in Muscat, to make a national platform's data governed, trusted, and compliant.

What you'll do

Operationalize data governance, the catalog, lineage, master data, quality, and retention.

Key Responsibilities

• Operationalize the data governance framework across a polyglot, multitenant data estate
• Run the data catalog, lineage, and business glossary, with clear, agreed definitions
• Define and steward master data and golden records through master data management (MDM)
• Set data quality rules, monitor them, and drive remediation of bad data
• Implement data classification, retention, and automated right to erasure aligned to data protection law
• Establish the data ownership and stewardship operating model across teams and entities
• Manage metadata, and make data discoverable and well understood
• Partner with the data architect, business intelligence, and security and compliance, and run governance forums

What makes you a fit

• You have run data governance, MDM, or data quality at enterprise scale, in practice not just on paper
• You know cataloging, lineage, and business glossaries, and you make definitions stick
• You have built master data and golden records, and resolved real data quality problems
• You understand classification, retention, and privacy, and how to enforce them
• You can stand up a stewardship operating model, and get people to own their data
• You hold a Bachelor's or higher in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field
• You translate regulation and policy into governance that actually holds
• Bonus points for government, regulated, or privacy heavy data environments
• Fluent English required; Arabic is a valuable advantage