Data Governance Engineer

About the Role

****** is seeking a Data Governance Engineer to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves ensuring robust data governance across the platform, covering data cataloging, lineage, metadata management, quality reporting, and classification. The engineer will also be responsible for maintaining documentation aligned with national data management and privacy regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and manage 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 datasets according to client schemes and specify access rules for each level, to be implemented by the operations team.
• Maintain current governance documentation, including architecture updates, data models, lineage, catalog, metadata, quality, security, and access.
• Advise data and ML engineers on privacy practices such as masking, de-identification, and data retention.
• Prepare audit evidence for clients and regulators, and contribute to the governance sections of architecture documents.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Proficiency with national data management and personal data protection requirements (*, NDMO and PDPL in Saudi Arabia, or equivalent).
• Understanding of cybersecurity controls as they apply to data, including classification, access, and encryption policies.
• Experience with data catalog, lineage, and metadata tooling (major tools; Google Data Catalog or Dataplex is an advantage).
• Knowledge of data quality frameworks and reporting.
• Familiarity with data classification schemes and classification-based access design.
• Experience in access policy design, including roles, RBAC matrices, and least privilege principles.
• Demonstrated experience in writing formal governance documents and preparing audit evidence for government or regulated clients.
• Sufficient SQL skills for data profiling and validation.

Preferred Skills and Certifications

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

Work Environment

The Data Governance Engineer will collaborate closely with engineers building data pipelines and the platform operations team. This role serves as the primary contact for auditors and involves advising data and ML engineers on privacy matters.

Application Process

Salary details for this position will be disclosed during the interview process. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply.