Data Governance Engineer - Catalog, Quality & Audits

Arabic.AI; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 201,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Arabic.AI is seeking a data governance lead to ensure the platform complies with national data-management and privacy rules. You will lead the data catalog, lineage, and metadata capture across pipelines and models, define and enforce data-quality rules, and publish reports.

You will classify datasets per client schemes, design access controls, and maintain governance documents. You will also advise on privacy controls and prepare audit evidence for regulators.

Qualifications

• NDMO/PDPL or equivalent data-protection rules knowledge.
• Cybersecurity controls for data: classification, access, encryption policy.
• Familiar with data catalogs, lineage and metadata tooling.
• Experience with data-quality frameworks and reporting.
• Experience with data classification schemes and access design.
• Ability to design access policies: roles, least privilege.
• Ability to write governance documents and audit evidence.

Responsibilities

• Stand up and run the data catalog, lineage and metadata capture across all pipelines and models.
• Define data-quality rules, enforce them, and publish the validation and quality reports.
• Classify datasets under the client’s scheme and specify access rules.
• Keep governance documents current: architecture, data models, lineage, catalog, metadata, quality, security and access.
• Advise engineers on privacy: masking, de-identification, retention.
• Prepare evidence for client and regulator audits and write governance sections of architecture documents.

Skills

SQL

RBAC

Data governance

Data privacy

Education

DAMA CDMP certification

Tools

Google Data Catalog

Dataplex

Job description

Arabic.AI is seeking a data governance lead to ensure the platform complies with national data-management and privacy rules. You will lead the data catalog, lineage, and metadata capture across pipelines and models, define and enforce data-quality rules, and publish reports.

You will classify datasets per client schemes, design access controls, and maintain governance documents. You will also advise on privacy controls and prepare audit evidence for regulators.