Note : This position is based out in Saudi Arabia and requires relocation and only relevant and shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Overview We are seeking a Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist to join our Corporate Data Office to strengthen Corporate-wide data governance capabilities and enable trusted, well-architected, high-quality data. The Corporate Data Office is responsible for establishing and executing world-class Corporate-wide data governance to ensure all data assets are proactively and efficiently governed and managed across Saudi Aramco, to foster a data driven organization and promote data value realization in line with its strategic goals as well to adequately comply with national and international data regulations. Your primary role will be to translate governance policies and standards into practical operating processes, data architecture deliverables, measurable data quality controls, and effective use of corporate data governance platforms. This role partners with business data owners, data stewards, technology teams, and other stakeholders to improve accountability, discoverability, consistency, and reliability of critical data assets.

Key Responsibilities
Data Governance
• Implement and continuously improve corporate data governance policies, standards, procedures, and stewardship practices.
• Define and maintain data ownership, stewardship responsibilities, critical data elements, business glossaries, and governance workflows.
• Support governance forums, issue escalation, compliance assessments, adoption metrics, and remediation tracking. Data Architecture
• Develop and maintain conceptual and logical data models, data definitions, domain mappings,



and architecture standards in collaboration with solution architects.
• Document data flows, system-of-record relationships, data integration patterns, and end-to-end lineage for priority data domains.
• Review solution designs for alignment with data standards, interoperability, reuse, and governance requirements. Data Quality
• Establish data quality dimensions, business rules, profiling methods, thresholds, and monitoring controls for critical data.
• Coordinate data quality assessments, root-cause analysis, remediation plans, and issue management with business and technical owners.
• Define scorecards, KPIs, and reporting to measure and communicate improvements in data quality. Data Governance Platform
• Support selection, configuration, deployment, integration, and ongoing enhancement of corporate data governance platforms.
• Configure and administer metadata catalogs, business glossaries, lineage, stewardship workflows, data quality capabilities, and role-based access as applicable.
• Drive platform onboarding, metadata ingestion, user acceptance testing, training, adoption, and operational support in partnership with IT and vendors. Minimum Requirements
• You must have a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.




• You should have a minimum of 10 years relevant experience across data governance, data architecture, data quality, metadata management, or corporate data platforms, including hands-on delivery responsibilities.
• You should be able to demonstrate experience implementing governance frameworks, stewardship models, business glossaries, metadata catalogs, and data quality processes.
• Practical knowledge of data modeling, data integration, metadata, lineage, SQL, and data quality profiling and monitoring is also essential.
• You should have hands-on experience with at least one corporate data governance or catalog platform (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK principles and applicable data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements is required.
• You must also be able to demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement, analytical problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional delivery skills. Work Location and Work Schedule Work

location:
Within Saudi Arabia – To be specified in Job offer Work schedule: Full Time
- To be specified in Job offer Working environment Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding qualified, technical and industrial opportunities

we offer
, and are remunerated accordingly. At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

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