Senior Data Governance & Architecture Lead

Saudi Aramco (ASC); Medina; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Saudi Aramco (ASC) seeks a Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist to strengthen corporate-wide data governance capabilities and enable trusted, well-architected, high-quality data across the organization.

You will translate governance policies into practical operating processes, data architecture deliverables, and data quality controls while collaborating with data owners, stewards, technology teams and stakeholders to improve accountability, discoverability, and reliability of

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in CS, IS, Data Science or related discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience across data governance, data architecture, data quality, metadata management, or corporate data platforms, including hands-on delivery responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience implementing governance frameworks, stewardship models, business glossaries, metadata catalogs, and data quality processes.
• Practical knowledge of data modeling, data integration, metadata, lineage, SQL, and data quality profiling and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with at least one corporate data governance or catalog platform (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK principles and applicable data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, analytical problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional delivery skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement and continuously improve corporate data governance policies, standards, procedures, and stewardship practices.
• Define and maintain data ownership, stewardship responsibilities, critical data elements, business glossaries, and governance workflows.
• Support governance forums, issue escalation, compliance assessments, adoption metrics and remediation tracking.
• Develop and maintain conceptual and logical data models, data definitions, domain mappings and architecture standards.
• Document data flows, system-of-record relationships, data integration patterns and end-to-end lineage for priority data domains.
• Review solution designs for alignment with data standards, interoperability, reuse and governance requirements.
• Establish data quality dimensions, business rules, profiling methods, thresholds and monitoring controls.
• Coordinate data quality assessments, root-cause analysis, remediation plans and issue management.
• Define scorecards, KPIs and reporting to measure improvements in data quality.
• Support selection, configuration, deployment, integration and ongoing enhancement of governance platforms.
• Configure and administer metadata catalogs, business glossaries, lineage, stewardship workflows and data quality capabilities.
• Drive platform onboarding, metadata ingestion, user acceptance testing, training, adoption and operational support in partnership with IT and vendors.

Skills

Data governance

Data architecture

Data quality

Metadata management

SQL

DAMA-DMBOK

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical problem-solving

Communication

Cross-functional delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Science / Engineering

Tools

Collibra

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Saudi Aramco (ASC) seeks a Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist to strengthen corporate-wide data governance capabilities and enable trusted, well-architected, high-quality data across the organization.

You will translate governance policies into practical operating processes, data architecture deliverables, and data quality controls while collaborating with data owners, stewards, technology teams and stakeholders to improve accountability, discoverability, and reliability of