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About the Role

eSense is seeking a Data Management & Governance Implementation Expert to support the design and implementation of enterprise data management, governance, and analytics solutions for clients in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role requires an experienced professional with 5-10 years of experience who can combine strong knowledge of data governance and regulatory compliance with hands-on technical experience across the data lifecycle.

The successful candidate will translate business, regulatory, and governance requirements into implementable processes, controls, solution architectures, and platform configurations. The role also involves supporting clients in improving their maturity and compliance with the National Data Management Office (NDMO) requirements and the National Data Index (NDI).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and/or support end-to-end delivery of data management and data governance implementation projects, from assessment and requirements gathering through design, configuration, testing, deployment, and operational handover.
• Assess clients' existing data landscapes, systems, processes, governance practices, and technical capabilities, translating identified gaps into practical implementation roadmaps.
• Design and implement vendor-neutral enterprise data architectures covering data ingestion, integration, storage, lakehouse and data warehouse environments, processing, transformation, orchestration, analytics, and data consumption.
• Configure and integrate data management and governance platforms and tools, including data catalogs, business glossaries, metadata repositories, data lineage, workflow management, policy enforcement, and stewardship capabilities.
• Implement data quality frameworks, including data profiling, critical data element identification, quality dimensions, validation rules, scorecards, issue management workflows, root-cause analysis, and remediation tracking.
• Support the design and implementation of master data management and reference data management capabilities, including data models, golden records, matching and merging rules, hierarchies, and governance workflows.
• Develop data integration pipelines supporting batch, real-time, API-based, structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data requirements.
• Support the implementation of enterprise data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures, including data modeling, storage layers, data marts, partitioning, retention, archiving, and performance optimization.
• Implement security and access-control requirements, including role-based access control, data classification, encryption, audit logging, segregation of duties, and integration with identity and access management services.
• Enable business intelligence, self-service analytics, executive dashboards, operational reporting, advanced analytics, and AI-ready data environments.
• Support integration and operational alignment with relevant national data platforms, where applicable, including the National Data Catalog, Government Service Bus, National Data Lake, Data Marketplace, Reference Data Platform, and Open Data Platform.
• Develop high-quality deliverables, including solution architecture documents, requirements specifications, data models, configuration documents, policies, procedures, operating manuals, test cases, traceability matrices, technical runbooks, and compliance evidence packages.
• Facilitate requirements workshops, design sessions, technical demonstrations, user acceptance testing, training, and knowledge-transfer sessions with business, data, compliance, cybersecurity, and technology stakeholders.
• Coordinate with client teams, technology vendors, implementation partners, and subject-matter experts to ensure solutions are delivered according to scope, quality, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, integration constraints, and data-related issues early and drive the required mitigation and resolution actions.

Experience and Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in data management and governance solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of data governance and regulatory compliance.
• Hands-on technical experience across the data lifecycle, including data integration, storage, processing, quality, metadata, master and reference data, security, analytics, and data sharing.
• Practical experience translating business, regulatory, and governance requirements into implementable processes, controls, solution architectures, and platform configurations.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working with clients to implement complex data solutions within various enterprise environments.