Chief Data Platform & Analytics Reliability Leader

Talent Seed; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Seed in Riyadh is recruiting an experienced Head of Data Infrastructure to lead the data organisation. You will own databases and clusters powering the platform at scale, ensure reliability of the data platform, and oversee BI services delivering actionable insights to customers.

This role requires strategic and deep technical leadership, managing teams across database strategy, cluster design, and data reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data or infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years in leadership managing databases, clusters, or data platforms.
• Hands-on expertise in database architecture and operations, especially MySQL and/or ClickHouse.
• Proven reliability track record: high availability, incident response, disaster recovery.
• Experience delivering BI/analytics products to customers, with data modelling and reporting pipelines.
• Strong leadership and strategic thinking to build and inspire engineering teams.
• Excellent communication to explain technical strategy to executives and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, architecture, and lifecycle management of production databases and related systems.
• Lead design, scaling, and operation of data clusters, including provisioning, replication, sharding, and upgrades.
• Define reliability standards, monitor observability, and manage DR and risk.
• Drive customer-facing BI services, ensuring timely, accurate insights and scalable reporting.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Commercial leadership to align data infrastructure with roadmaps.
• Manage budget and resources for data infrastructure and vendor tooling.

Skills

MySQL

ClickHouse

Cluster management

Data architecture

BI & analytics

Leadership

Communication

Observability

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Talent Seed in Riyadh is recruiting an experienced Head of Data Infrastructure to lead the data organisation. You will own databases and clusters powering the platform at scale, ensure reliability of the data platform, and oversee BI services delivering actionable insights to customers.

This role requires strategic and deep technical leadership, managing teams across database strategy, cluster design, and data reliability.