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Lead Specialist, Modeling & Architecture II

Unlock employer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Posted: 16 Apr 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $100k - $150k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

The Lead Specialist, Modeling & Architecture II designs and delivers high-quality solution-level data models and architecture artifacts to enable consistent, governed, and performant data products. The role applies enterprise standards to delivery initiatives and partners with engineering, governance, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into implementable models. This role provides advanced technical leadership within delivery squads, ensuring modeling quality, integration readiness, and conformance to enterprise patterns while supporting multiple projects and domains.

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Key Accountabilities

  • Design and maintain logical and physical data models for analytics, integration, and reporting use cases, aligned with enterprise standards and naming conventions.
  • Translate business requirements into consistent entities, attributes, and relationships; ensure definitions align with the business glossary and stewardship ownership.
  • Develop dimensional models and curated layer schemas that support performant analytics and standardized KPIs.
  • Define mappings and transformation rules from source systems to curated layers; ensure traceability, lineage, and reconciliation requirements are met.
  • Participate in solution design reviews; identify modeling risks and recommend mitigation (data quality, master/reference data, performance, historization).
  • Support data engineers with model-driven implementation guidance; validate that physical implementations align with approved designs.
  • Contribute reusable templates, reference models, and design patterns to accelerate delivery and standardize outputs.
  • Collaborate with governance teams to ensure metadata completeness, catalog registration, and data quality checks are embedded in delivery.

Minimum Qualifications, Experience, and Competencies

  • Minimum Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related discipline.
  • Minimum Experience: 8–12 years of experience in data modeling and solution architecture within enterprise analytics environments. Hands-on experience delivering models for modern cloud data platforms and supporting implementation throughout production.

Skills

  • Strong data modeling capabilities (logical/physical, dimensional) and ability to document and communicate designs clearly.
  • Understanding of data quality, lineage, metadata, and governance requirements for enterprise data products.
  • Ability to work across engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to resolve definition and integration challenges.
  • Experience with modeling tools and SQL; familiarity with cloud data platform design considerations.
  • Strong analytical thinking and ability to troubleshoot modeling and integration defects.

Benefits

  • Career Growth
  • Competitive Salaries
  • Comprehensive Package
  • Inclusive Work Environment
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Employee wellness

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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