Senior Data Governance Architect – Enterprise Data

Manar Rass; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Manar Rass seeks an experienced Data Management & Governance Implementation Expert to design and implement enterprise data governance, analytics solutions, and ND/MO aligned controls for clients in Saudi Arabia. You will translate regulatory requirements into practical processes, architectures, and platform configurations across the data lifecycle.

You will lead or support end-to-end delivery, assess existing data landscapes, and develop roadmaps while ensuring data quality, security, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Data Engineering, or related discipline.
• 5–8 years of experience in data management, governance, data engineering, or related consulting roles.
• Experience delivering data governance projects in Saudi Arabia, ideally for government or regulated entities.
• Knowledge of Saudi national data standards (NDMO/NDI) preferred.
• Understanding of modern data architectures (warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, ETL/ELT, APIs).

Responsibilities

• Lead and/or support end-to-end delivery of data management and governance implementations.
• Assess clients' data landscapes and translate gaps into practical roadmaps.
• Design and implement enterprise data architectures covering ingestion, storage, processing, and analytics.
• Configure data governance platforms, catalogs, glossaries, metadata stores, and data lineage.
• Implement data quality frameworks, including profiling, rules, scorecards, and remediation tracking.
• Support master and reference data management capabilities including golden records and governance workflows.
• Develop data integration pipelines supporting batch, real-time, API-based data.
• Support data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, and data marts with performance optimization.
• Ensure security, access control, encryption, auditing, and compliance alignment with national standards.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Analytics

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / IT / related

Job description

Manar Rass seeks an experienced Data Management & Governance Implementation Expert to design and implement enterprise data governance, analytics solutions, and ND/MO aligned controls for clients in Saudi Arabia. You will translate regulatory requirements into practical processes, architectures, and platform configurations across the data lifecycle.

You will lead or support end-to-end delivery, assess existing data landscapes, and develop roadmaps while ensuring data quality, security, and