Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist

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About the Role Saudi Aramco | Saudi Aramco is seeking a Senior Data Governance & Architecture Specialist to join its Corporate Data Office. This full-time role focuses on strengthening corporate-wide data governance capabilities and enabling trusted, well-architected, high-quality data across the organization. The Corporate Data Office is responsible for establishing and executing world-class data governance to ensure data assets are proactively and efficiently managed, fostering a data-driven organization in line with strategic goals and national/international data regulations. Role Responsibilities The primary responsibility of this role is 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 position involves collaboration with business data owners, data stewards, technology teams, and other stakeholders to enhance accountability, discoverability, consistency, and reliability of critical data assets. Key Accountabilities 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. 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. 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. 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. Drive platform onboarding, metadata ingestion, user acceptance testing, training, adoption, and operational support in partnership with IT and vendors. Required Qualifications and Experience A minimum of 10 years of experience in a relevant field. Strong stakeholder engagement, analytical problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional delivery skills. Working knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK principles. Familiarity with applicable data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements. Work Location The work location will be within Saudi Arabia, with the specific city to be detailed in the job offer.