Senior Data Governance & Architecture Leader

Saudi Aramco; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Saudi Aramco seeks a Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist to join the Corporate Data Office to strengthen governance, architecture, and data quality across the enterprise. The role translates policies into operating processes, data models, and platform configurations, partnering with data owners, stewards, IT, and business units to improve accountability and data reliability.

You will drive metadata catalogs, governance workflows, and data quality KPIs, participate in platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or higher in a relevant field with substantial data governance experience.
• 10+ years delivering data governance, data architecture, data quality, metadata management, or data platforms.
• Experience implementing governance frameworks, stewardship models, glossaries, catalogs, and quality processes.
• Hands-on knowledge of data modeling, integration, metadata, lineage, SQL, and data quality monitoring.
• Experience with at least one governance or catalog platform (Collibra, Informatica, Purview, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with DAMA-DMBOK and data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, analytical thinking, communication, and cross-functional delivery skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate governance policies into operational processes, data models, and platform configurations.
• Define ownership, stewardship, data elements, glossaries, and governance workflows.
• Support governance forums, compliance assessments, adoption metrics, and remediation tracking.
• Develop and maintain conceptual/logical data models, data definitions, and domain mappings.
• Document data flows, lineage, and integration patterns; review designs for standards compliance.
• Establish data quality dimensions, rules, profiling, thresholds, and monitoring controls.
• Coordinate quality assessments, root-cause analysis, remediation, and KPI reporting.
• Support selection, configuration, deployment, and enhancement of data governance platforms.
• Manage metadata catalogs, glossaries, lineage, workflows, and access controls; drive onboarding and training.

Skills

Data governance

Data architecture

Data quality

Metadata management

Corporate data platforms

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical problem-solving

Communication

Cross-functional delivery

Education

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

Tools

Collibra

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Equivalents

Job description

Saudi Aramco seeks a Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist to join the Corporate Data Office to strengthen governance, architecture, and data quality across the enterprise. The role translates policies into operating processes, data models, and platform configurations, partnering with data owners, stewards, IT, and business units to improve accountability and data reliability.

You will drive metadata catalogs, governance workflows, and data quality KPIs, participate in platform