Master Data Governance Lead

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 260,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Ma’aden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Lead Specialist, Governance & Master Data to establish enterprise data governance and master data foundations. You will set standards, ownership, and controls to enable reliable reporting, analytics, and AI across business functions.

The role emphasizes embedding governance into processes, building sustainable data stewardship, and ensuring regulatory compliance while driving continuous improvement across platforms and teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; 8–10 years in data governance or MDM.
• Experience implementing enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Experience building data quality, metadata, lineage, or data catalog capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Establish governance frameworks, policies, standards, and decision rights for critical data.
• Align governance with data strategy, architecture, cybersecurity and regulatory obligations.
• Embed governance into business processes and technology delivery.
• Govern master data definitions, hierarchies, rules, and lifecycle controls.
• Drive data quality improvements and root-cause analysis of issues.
• Strengthen metadata, lineage, and traceability across platforms.
• Integrate data quality, ownership, security, and lineage into pipelines and cloud environments.
• Provide mentoring and build sustainable governance capability.

Skills

Enterprise Data Governance

Master Data Management

Data Quality Management

Metadata & Data Catalogue Management

Data Lineage & Traceability

Data Stewardship & Lifecycle

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Management, Information Systems, or a related discipline

Job description

Ma’aden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Lead Specialist, Governance & Master Data to establish enterprise data governance and master data foundations. You will set standards, ownership, and controls to enable reliable reporting, analytics, and AI across business functions.

The role emphasizes embedding governance into processes, building sustainable data stewardship, and ensuring regulatory compliance while driving continuous improvement across platforms and teams.