Data Architect📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Ejada is seeking a Data Architect to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This is a full-time position requiring 5-10 years of experience. The Data Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the enterprise data architecture to support the organization's data modernization, analytics, and digital transformation initiatives.

Role Purpose

The primary purpose of this role is to ensure the delivery of scalable, secure, and compliant data platforms. This includes developing data warehouses, lakehouse architectures, real-time streaming ecosystems, and robust data governance frameworks. The Data Architect's contributions will enable trusted data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.

Key Accountabilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy, standards, principles, and target-state architecture.
• Design and implement scalable data warehouse, data lake, and lakehouse architectures across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Lead conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling activities using industry-standard methodologies.
• Design batch and real-time data integration architectures to support operational and analytical workloads.
• Architect streaming and event-driven data platforms using technologies such as Apache Kafka and Change Data Capture (CDC) solutions.
• Define standards for data governance, master data management, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality.
• Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, regulatory, and data residency requirements, including banking and regulatory standards.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns to support business and technology objectives.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, solution architects, and technology teams to define enterprise data solutions.
• Produce architecture blueprints, standards, solution designs, roadmaps, and technical decision documentation.
• Review solution designs and technical implementations to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support data modernization, cloud migration, and analytics transformation initiatives.
• Mentor technical teams and provide guidance on architecture best practices and implementation approaches.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives related to data management, analytics, and enterprise architecture.

Required Experience

• Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in data architecture.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a collaborative environment focused on data modernization and digital transformation.