Data Analyst & Designer Consultant

About the Role

Ejada is seeking a Data Analyst & Designer Consultant to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves analyzing enterprise data landscapes, translating business requirements into data design solutions, and developing data models to support analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making initiatives. The consultant will work closely with data architects, business stakeholders, and implementation teams.

Role Purpose

The primary purpose of this role is to design scalable, governed, and business-aligned data platforms. This includes ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture and data governance standards, and developing conceptual, logical, and physical data models that meet business and analytics objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements and translate them into detailed data requirements, business rules, and transformation specifications.
• Assess source systems to identify relevant data assets for business and analytics objectives.
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with enterprise data architecture principles.
• Develop and maintain enterprise data design artifacts, data dictionaries, and mapping documentation.
• Define source-to-target mappings, transformation rules, and data flow designs to ensure traceability and governance.
• Collaborate with data architects to design scalable, reusable, and modular data platform architectures.
• Support the development of data integration, analytics, reporting, and business intelligence solutions.
• Design storage-layer structures, including data warehouses, data marts, data lakes, and analytical repositories.
• Identify extraction requirements, data sourcing strategies, and ingestion approaches for various source systems.
• Ensure alignment between data models, business semantics, performance requirements, and data quality standards.
• Work with data engineers to translate design specifications into data ingestion and transformation processes.
• Develop high-level and detailed solution design documents for data platform initiatives.
• Support data governance and architecture frameworks by ensuring consistency, compliance, and traceability across data assets.
• Participate in workshops, requirement gathering sessions, and design reviews with business and technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives related to data architecture, analysis, and design methodologies.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or Data Science.
• Professional certifications related to Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, or Analytics, such as CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) or an equivalent certification.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data Design, or Enterprise Data Management.
• Proven experience in analyzing complex business requirements and converting them into data design solutions.
• Experience designing enterprise data platforms, data warehouses, data marts, or analytics environments.

Work Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.