Senior Data Architect

About the Role

Anix Global is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect for a contract position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role involves designing, governing, and evolving the organization's data architecture in alignment with enterprise architecture standards, such as TOGAF. The Enterprise Data Architect will bridge business requirements with scalable, well-governed data models across both operational and analytical systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with business capabilities and enterprise standards.
• Understand Data Architecture activities within the TOGAF ADM, producing artifacts such as Data Entity/Business Function matrices, Application/Data (CRUD) matrices, and conceptual/logical data diagrams.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate business processes and requirements into data domains, entities, and relationships.
• Define and enforce data governance standards, including data ownership, stewardship, quality rules, and Master Data Management (MDM) practices.
• Design dimensional models for analytics and data warehousing initiatives, and normalized models for transactional systems.
• Establish and maintain an enterprise data dictionary/glossary and metadata catalog.
• Evaluate and rationalize data flows and lineage across source systems, integration layers, and target platforms.
• Collaborate with application architects, data engineers, and BI teams to ensure models translate cleanly into physical implementations (SQL DDL, warehouse schemas, APIs).
• Assess data quality issues at the source and define remediation/standardization strategies.
• Guide architecture decisions on normalization versus denormalization, Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) strategies, and data domain boundaries.
• Present architecture recommendations to senior stakeholders and architecture review boards.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in enterprise data architecture. The role requires a strong understanding of data architecture principles and frameworks, including TOGAF.

Required Skills

• Proficiency in developing conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Experience with data governance, data ownership, data quality, and MDM practices.
• Ability to design dimensional models for analytics and normalized models for transactional systems.
• Familiarity with enterprise data dictionaries, glossaries, and metadata catalogs.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate data flows and lineage.
• Collaborative approach to working with application architects, data engineers, and BI teams.
• Capability to assess data quality issues and define remediation strategies.
• Presentation skills for communicating architecture recommendations to stakeholders.

Work Type and Location

This is a contract position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The salary for this role will be discussed during the interview process.