Data Platform Lead​/Administrator; DevOps

Job Description – Data Platform Lead / Administrator
Job Title -
Data Platform Lead / Administrator
Job Location - Riyadh - KSA
Job Purpose

The Data Platform Lead / Administrator is responsible for designing, managing, administering, and optimizing the organization's data platform infrastructure, ensuring the availability, security, scalability, and performance of enterprise data management, data governance, data quality, and data privacy platforms.

The role collaborates with Data Architects, Data Modelers, Database Administrators, Dev Ops, Information Security, and business stakeholders to enable reliable data integration, storage, processing, and access while supporting enterprise data governance and regulatory compliance initiatives.

The Data Platform Lead also oversees the operational support, monitoring, maintenance, automation, and continuous improvement of enterprise data platforms throughout the project lifecycle.

• 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.
• Ensure enterprise data platforms align with organizational strategy and data governance requirements.
• Manage operational support activities for data lakes, data warehouses, reporting platforms, and content management systems.
• Support deployment, configuration, upgrades, and patch management of enterprise data platforms.

• Monitor platform health, availability, and performance to ensure compliance with service level agreements (SLAs).
• Perform platform performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization.
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards for proactive platform management.
• Manage backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes for enterprise data platforms.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and platform issues, ensuring timely resolution.

• Collaborate with Data Architects, Data Modelers, Database Administrators, and ETL developers to support efficient data ingestion, storage, and processing.
• Support implementation and optimization of data pipelines and integration services.
• Ensure reliable operation of enterprise data processing and analytics platforms.
• Support document management and enterprise content management platform integration.

• Implement and maintain platform security, access controls, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
• Support implementation of enterprise Data Governance, Data Privacy, and Information Security requirements.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies and regulatory standards related to data management.
• Collaborate with governance and security teams to enforce platform controls and audit requirements.

• Drive automation, modernization, and standardization initiatives across the data platform environment.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and Dev Ops practices for platform deployment and maintenance.
• Automate operational monitoring, provisioning, deployment, and maintenance activities.
• Improve operational efficiency through scripting, orchestration, and workflow automation.

• Partner with business users, analytics teams, and technical stakeholders to enable secure and efficient access to enterprise data.
• Support enterprise reporting, analytics, and business intelligence initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance, documentation, and operational support for platform users.
• Participate in solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support activities.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Management, or a related discipline.

• Minimum 5 years of experience managing and administering enterprise data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, or business intelligence platforms.
• Experience supporting cloud and on-premises enterprise data environments.
• Experience implementing platform 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.

• Strong Arabic and English communication skills (written and verbal).
• Strong experience in enterprise data platform administration, engineering, or architecture.
• Strong understanding of cloud and hybrid data platform architectures.
• Experience with ETL processes, data integration, and data modeling concepts.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, identity management, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, automation, and operational support processes.
• Excellent analytical,…