Technical Lead / Data Architect
Technical Lead / Data Architect Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Thummamah Road, 13316 Employment Type: Full-Time Contract Duration: 13 weeks Work Arrangement: First 3 weeks fully on-site; remaining period hybrid Team: 6–8 Engineers/Developers
Role Overview
We are seeking a hands-on Technical Lead / Data Architect to lead the architecture and implementation of a cloud-based data and analytics platform. The role combines data architecture, GCP engineering, hands-on development and technical leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical architecture and implementation of the data platform.
- Design HLD/LLD for a lakehouse architecture covering raw, standardized and curated layers.
- Design the Customer 360 data model and source-to-target mappings from GCP Data Lake and Oracle OCI.
- Design and implement GCP data pipelines and personally contribute to SQL/Python development.
- Lead a team of 6–8 data engineers/developers and conduct technical reviews.
- Implement identity resolution, including deterministic/probabilistic matching and survivorship rules.
- Establish data quality, reconciliation, lineage and metadata frameworks.
- Design Power BI semantic models, including RLS/OLS, and support Power BI embedding with Dynamics 365.
- Ensure security, encryption, audit logging, KSA data residency and PDPL compliance.
- support an AI-ready data foundation using BigQuery ML / Gemini / Vertex AI where applicable
Required Technical Experience
- 10+ years in data engineering and/or data architecture.
- 3+ years of hands‑on GCP experience.
- Strong experience with: o BigQuery
- o Cloud Storage
- o Dataflow
- o Cloud Run and/or GKE
- o IAM \& GCP networking
- o Airflow
- o dbt
- Strong SQL and Python skills with recent hands‑on development experience.
- Experience with data lake/lakehouse architecture, data modelling and integration.
- Strong Customer 360 / MDM / identity-resolution experience.
- Power BI semantic modelling, RLS/OLS and Dynamics 365 integration
- Domain \& Compliance Insurance or banking data experience strongly preferred, particularly customers, policies, claims or providers.
- Experience with regulated/sensitive data environments.
- Knowledge of PDPL, KSA data residency, encryption and audit controls.
- Saudi/KSA financial‑sector experience is an advantage.
Candidate Requirements
- Must be legally eligible to work in Saudi Arabia.
- Candidates of any nationality may be considered, provided they can work on‑ground in Riyadh.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Must be comfortable balancing hands‑on engineering, architecture and technical leadership.
- Important: This is a hands‑on role. Candidates with only architecture/team‑management experience and no recent SQL, Python and GCP implementation experience will not be suitable.
Pay
Pay: ﷼8,000.00 - ﷼10,000.00 per month Experience: Data architecture : 10 years (Required) GCP: 3 years (Required) SQL \& Python: 5 years (Required) Language: English (Required) Location: Riyadh (Required) Work Location: In person