Data Governance Engineer

About the Role

****** is seeking a Data Governance Engineer to join their team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This full-time role focuses on ensuring the platform's adherence to data governance standards, encompassing data cataloging, lineage, metadata management, quality reporting, and classification. The engineer will also be responsible for maintaining the necessary documentation to comply with national data management and privacy regulations.

Role Context and Collaboration

The Data Governance Engineer will work closely with data and ML engineers responsible for building data pipelines, as well as the team managing the platform operations. A key aspect of this role involves serving as the primary point of contact for auditors, providing evidence and documentation to demonstrate compliance and effective data governance practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the data catalog, lineage, and metadata capture across all data pipelines and models.
• Define and enforce data quality rules, and publish validation and quality reports.
• Classify all datasets according to the client's scheme and specify required access rules for each level, to be implemented by the operations team.
• Maintain the governance document set, including updates to architecture, data models, lineage, catalog, metadata, quality, security, and access.
• Provide guidance to data and ML engineers on privacy considerations such as data masking, de-identification, and retention policies.
• Prepare audit evidence for clients and regulators, and contribute to the governance sections of architecture documentation.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Understanding of national data management and personal data protection requirements (*, NDMO and PDPL in Saudi Arabia, or equivalent).
• Knowledge of cybersecurity controls as they apply to data, including classification, access, and encryption policies.
• Experience with data catalog, lineage, and metadata tooling (*, Google Data Catalog or Dataplex is a plus).
• Proficiency in data quality frameworks and reporting.
• Experience with data classification schemes and designing classification-based access.
• Ability to design access policies, including roles, RBAC matrices, and least privilege principles.
• Proven experience in writing formal governance documents and preparing audit evidence for government or regulated clients.
• Sufficient SQL skills to profile and validate data independently.

Preferred Qualifications

• DAMA CDMP certification or equivalent.
• Experience with government audits.
• Familiarity with master data or reference data management.

Application Process

Candidates interested in this Data Governance Engineer position are encouraged to apply.