Data Architect - Saudi National
Sanaam
Date: 1 day ago
City: Riyadh
Contract type: Full time
Job Summary
The Data Architect is responsible for managing the end-to-end data architecture, including the design and implementation of data strategies that align with enterprise goals. The role involves developing data frameworks, ensuring data integrity and governance, and supporting business requirements through scalable and secure data solutions.
Job Responsibilities
The Data Architect is responsible for managing the end-to-end data architecture, including the design and implementation of data strategies that align with enterprise goals. The role involves developing data frameworks, ensuring data integrity and governance, and supporting business requirements through scalable and secure data solutions.
Job Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance the enterprise-wide data strategy to support the delivery of organizational objectives.
- Act as a key stakeholder and advisor in all new strategic data initiatives to ensure alignment with the enterprise-wide data strategy.
- Build a framework of principles to ensure data integrity across the organization (including but not limited to ERP, CRM, BI, Data Warehouse, external interfaces, etc.).
- Ensure the data architecture strategy and roadmap align with both business and technology strategies.
- Build and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, including entity relationship models, data dictionaries, and taxonomies to support data traceability.
- Provide technical oversight in solution delivery to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and data governance standards.
- Promote data security principles and ensure security practices are embedded in all data strategies.
- Contribute to the improvement of data governance practices and advocate for the adoption of data standards.
- Support third-party data providers in developing specifications aligned with the enterprise data architecture.
- Analyze structural requirements for new software and applications.
- Provide operational support to database teams.
- Manage the full lifecycle of data architecture from platform selection and technical design to development, testing, and implementation.
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, and data warehouses.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems) or a related field.
- Years of Experience: Minimum of 3 years in data architecture.
- Certified in one or more relevant data or architecture frameworks is preferred.
- Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies is required.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise data strategy and architecture best practices.
- Experience with data governance, data security, and data quality standards.
- Proficiency in building and maintaining entity relationship models, taxonomies, and metadata repositories.
- Skilled in designing scalable and secure data platforms.
- Familiarity with a wide range of databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server).
- Knowledge of data modeling techniques and tools.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control tools.
- Strong understanding of integration with enterprise systems (e.g., ERP, CRM, BI).
- Ability to collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to define data requirements and strategies.
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