Data Architect

About the Role

Jodayn is seeking a Data Architect to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise data architecture. The objective is to ensure that data is structured, integrated, governed, secure, reusable, and aligned with business and digital transformation objectives.

Role Context and Scope

The Data Architect's responsibilities encompass current-state assessment, target-state design, enterprise data models, data domains, master and reference data, data integration, lineage, metadata, analytics platforms, and data governance alignment. The role involves ensuring data architecture supports enterprise transformation initiatives and complies with established principles and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise data architecture aligned with business strategy and enterprise architecture direction.
• Assess the current data landscape, including data sources, stores, applications, interfaces, ownership, duplication, and quality issues.
• Define target-state data architecture and transition roadmaps.
• Establish enterprise data domains and define relationships between domains, business capabilities, applications, and data owners.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and high-level physical data models as required.
• Define master data, reference data, transactional data, analytical data, and metadata architecture.
• Identify and document authoritative data sources and Systems of Record.
• Design data lineage, data flow, and information exchange models across business and technology environments.
• Define application-to-data relationships, CRUD responsibilities, and data ownership dependencies.
• Design enterprise data integration and data-sharing patterns, including APIs, batch integration, event-driven exchange, and data pipelines.
• Support architecture for data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, analytics platforms, and business intelligence environments.
• Define data architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Align data architecture with data governance, data quality, metadata management, privacy, security, and retention requirements.
• Support Master Data Management and Reference Data Management initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, data governance, application, integration, security, cloud, and infrastructure teams.
• Participate in architecture governance and solution design reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise data architecture.
• Support technology and platform evaluations related to databases, data integration, analytics, metadata, MDM, and data management platforms.
• Identify data-related risks, gaps, dependencies, duplication, ownership issues, and improvement opportunities.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in data architecture.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves collaboration across various technical and business teams to achieve data architecture objectives.

Application Process

Further details regarding the application process will be provided upon inquiry. Salary information for this position is not disclosed.