Data Architect📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Datamatics Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Data Architect to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is critical for defining the enterprise-wide data architecture within complex, multi-entity organizations.

Role Overview and Context

The Data Architect will be responsible for translating business and data strategy into a cohesive target architecture. This includes developing common data models, integration patterns, platform capabilities, and governance standards, alongside a phased transition roadmap. A key aspect of this role is enabling interoperability across diverse business units and entities.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the current data landscape across business units and entities, including sources, platforms, models, flows, integrations, ownership, dependencies, and key pain points.
• Define enterprise data architecture principles, standards, and the target-state architecture across data ingestion, integration, storage, processing, sharing, analytics, and AI enablement.
• Develop conceptual and logical enterprise data models, canonical models, and common definitions for priority data domains.
• Define data-domain boundaries, data-product interfaces, and interoperability standards for a federated, multi-entity environment.
• Establish architecture patterns for APIs, event-driven integration, batch exchange, and secure data sharing across internal and external ecosystems.
• Advise on the architecture of data lakehouse or warehouse platforms, master and reference data, metadata catalogues, lineage, data quality, security, and privacy controls.
• Align the data architecture with business capabilities, application architecture, technology strategy, and enterprise-wide transformation priorities.
• Define data architecture governance, decision rights, design-review gates, reusable patterns, and exception-management processes.
• Identify architecture gaps, dependencies, and migration priorities, and develop a practical transition roadmap.
• Facilitate architecture workshops and translate complex technical decisions into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience in data architecture, enterprise information architecture, data engineering, or large-scale data transformation.
• Proven experience defining enterprise-wide data architecture for a large, complex organization, conglomerate, public-sector ecosystem, or other multi-entity environment.
• Strong expertise in conceptual and logical data modelling, enterprise data domains, canonical models, and data interoperability.
• Deep understanding of modern data platforms, including cloud or hybrid data architectures, lakehouse or warehouse patterns, data integration, and analytics ecosystems.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, metadata, lineage, master data management, data quality, security, and privacy-by-design principles.
• Experience establishing federated architecture standards and aligning diverse business units and entities around common enterprise patterns.
• Ability to connect data architecture decisions to business outcomes, operating-model implications, investment requirements, and implementation priorities, and communicate them clearly to senior stakeholders.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to work within a dynamic technological environment at Datamatics Technologies.

Application Information

We invite qualified candidates to apply for this challenging role. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.