Manager, Data & Artificial intelligence Platforms

Maaden; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data management organization in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Manager, Data Domain and Products, responsible for overseeing multiple data domains, ensuring data products align with enterprise strategies, and facilitating governance. Candidates should have 12+ years of relevant experience, expertise in managing data portfolios, and strong stakeholder management skills. This position will lead the integration of data products and ensure they meet quality standards while communicating effectively with senior business and technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across data, analytics, or enterprise information management.
• Proven experience leading multiple data domains or portfolios, not just a single domain.
• Demonstrated ability to manage senior specialists and influence cross‑functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight across multiple data domains, each owned by a designated domain owner.
• Ensure domain owners apply consistent principles for data ownership, stewardship, modeling, quality, and governance.
• Balance demand across domains by prioritizing data products based on enterprise value, regulatory need, and readiness.
• Ensure domain data products integrate cleanly with enterprise platforms and downstream consumers.
• Act as the primary business‑facing interface for enterprise data domains.
• Enable domain owners to focus on execution by removing blockers, resolving dependencies, and clarifying priorities.
• Ensure lifecycle artifacts (ownership, definitions, quality expectations, refresh SLAs) are consistently produced across domains.
• Lead and develop domain owners, ensuring clarity of role boundaries between domain ownership and enterprise oversight.

Skills

Portfolio‑level data domain and product management

Enterprise data governance and operating models

Cross‑domain KPI and semantic alignment

Stakeholder management at senior business and technical levels

Ability to translate strategy into coordinated execution across multiple owners

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, or related field

MBA or Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Manager, Data Domain and Products is accountable for governing, coordinating, and enabling a portfolio of data domains and their associated data products, rather than owning a single domain directly.

Job Purpose

The role ensures that domain data owners (Principal Specialists) operate within a consistent enterprise framework for data products, governance, quality, and value realization. It acts as the portfolio‑level authority, aligning domain priorities with enterprise strategy, resolving cross‑domain conflicts, and ensuring that data products are delivered as reusable, governed assets rather than siloed solutions.

This role is responsible for how data domains operate together, how data products are prioritized and standardized, and how domain outputs collectively support enterprise reporting, operations, controls, and decision‑making.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide leadership and oversight across multiple data domains, each owned by a designated domain owner
• Ensure domain owners apply consistent principles for data ownership, stewardship, modeling, quality, and governance.
• Balance demand across domains by prioritizing data products based on enterprise value, regulatory need, and readiness.
• Ensure domain data products integrate cleanly with enterprise platforms and downstream consumers.
• Act as the primary business‑facing interface for enterprise data domains, translating strategic needs into coordinated domain roadmaps.
• Enable domain owners to focus on execution by removing blockers, resolving dependencies, and clarifying priorities.
• Ensure lifecycle artifacts (ownership, definitions, quality expectations, refresh SLAs) are consistently produced across domains.
• Lead and develop domain owners, ensuring clarity of role boundaries between domain ownership and enterprise oversight.

Minimum Qualification, Experience And Competencies

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, or related field.
• MBA or Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience is an advantage.

Minimum Experience

• 12+ years of experience across data, analytics, or enterprise information management
• Proven experience leading multiple data domains or portfolios, not just a single domain
• Demonstrated ability to manage senior specialists and influence cross‑functional stakeholders

Skills

• Portfolio‑level data domain and product management
• Enterprise data governance and operating models
• Cross‑domain KPI and semantic alignment
• Stakeholder management at senior business and technical levels
• Ability to translate strategy into coordinated execution across multiple owners