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About the Role

Datamatics Technologies is seeking a Data Platform Lead / Administrator (DevOps) to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is central to designing, managing, administering, and optimizing the organization's data platform infrastructure. The Lead ensures the availability, security, scalability, and performance of enterprise data management, data governance, data quality, and data privacy platforms.

Role Context

The Data Platform Lead / Administrator collaborates with Data Architects, Data Modelers, Database Administrators, DevOps, Information Security, and business stakeholders. This collaboration enables reliable data integration, storage, processing, and access. The role also supports enterprise data governance and regulatory compliance initiatives, overseeing operational support, monitoring, maintenance, automation, and continuous improvement of enterprise data platforms throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the administration, management, and continuous improvement of enterprise data platforms and supporting infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available data platform environments, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and data governance requirements.
• Manage operational support for data lakes, data warehouses, reporting platforms, and content management systems, including deployment, configuration, upgrades, and patch management.
• Monitor platform health, availability, and performance to meet service level agreements (SLAs), performing tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization.
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards for proactive platform management, and manage backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
• Collaborate with Data Architects, Data Modelers, Database Administrators, and ETL developers to support efficient data ingestion, storage, processing, and optimization of data pipelines.
• Implement and maintain platform security, access controls, authentication, and authorization mechanisms, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and regulatory standards.
• Drive automation, modernization, and standardization initiatives, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices for platform deployment and maintenance.
• Partner with business users, analytics teams, and technical stakeholders to enable secure and efficient access to enterprise data, providing technical guidance and operational support.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Management, or a related discipline.
• A minimum of 5-10 years of experience managing and administering enterprise data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, or business intelligence platforms.
• Experience supporting cloud and on-premises environments.
• Proven experience implementing monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience supporting enterprise Data Governance, Data Quality, or Data Privacy platforms is highly desirable.
• Experience leading technical teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders is highly desirable.

Technical Expertise

• Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks such as SDAIA Data Management Framework, NDMO Data Management Standards, Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), and Information Security and Data Governance best practices.
• Required technical expertise in one of two technology stacks:
  • Open Source/Cloud with DevOps platform setup and administration.
  • Enterprise Informatica with DevOps platform setup for Informatica Secure Agent, IDMC, CDGC, and CDQ.
• Preferred experience with platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Snowflake, SQL Server, Databricks, and Microsoft Dynamics.
• Relevant certifications in cloud, DevOps, or enterprise data platforms are preferred.

Application Information

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.