About the Role
You will ensure that the platform is well governed by managing the data catalog, lineage, metadata, quality reporting, and classification, as well as the documentation required for national data-management and privacy regulations. You will collaborate closely with engineers who build the pipelines and the team that operates the platform, serving as the primary point of contact for auditors.
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What You Will Do
- Stand up and run the data catalog, lineage, and metadata capture across all pipelines and models.
- Define data-quality rules, enforce them, and publish validation and quality reports.
- Classify every dataset under the client's scheme and specify the access rules for each level; the operations team will implement these rules.
- Keep the governance document set current, including updates on architecture, data models, lineage, catalog, metadata, quality, security, and access.
- Advise data and machine learning engineers on privacy matters such as masking, de-identification, and retention.
- Prepare evidence for client and regulator audits and write governance sections of architecture documents.
What You Need
- Knowledge of national data-management and personal-data-protection requirements (NDMO and PDPL in Saudi Arabia or equivalent elsewhere).
- Understanding of cybersecurity controls related to data: classification, access, and encryption policies.
- Experience with data catalog, lineage, and metadata tooling (any major tool; familiarity with Google Data Catalog or Dataplex is a plus).
- Familiarity with data-quality frameworks and reporting methodologies.
- Understanding of data classification schemes and classification-based access design.
- Experience in designing access policies, roles, RBAC matrices, and implementing least privilege principles.
- Ability to write formal governance documents and prepare audit evidence for government or regulated client contexts.
- Proficiency in SQL for data profiling and validation tasks.
Good to Have
- DAMA CDMP certification or equivalent; experience with government audits.
- Background in master-data or reference-data management.
