Senior Principal

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Date: 15 Sept 2026

Custom Field 1: 701682

Location:

Riyadh, SA

Facility:
Technology & Engineering

701682

E2

Government Products

System Design & BI

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To provide specialized expertise in the architecture, engineering, and technical implementation of enterprise-scale Data Lakehouse capabilities by designing scalable data platforms, modern big data architectures, and high-performance data processing frameworks. The role contributes to the strategic Data Lakehouse initiative by ensuring technical excellence, reducing delivery risks, accelerating platform adoption, and strengthening internal capabilities in modern data engineering and big data technologies to support analytics, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

This section describes the principal outputs required from the job.

• Define and lead the Data Lakehouse architecture strategy aligned with business, analytics, and technology objectives.
• Establish architectural standards, engineering principles, and technical roadmaps for enterprise data platforms.
• Evaluate emerging big data technologies and recommend suitable solutions that support strategic objectives.
• Ensure Data Lakehouse capabilities support scalability, reliability, performance, and future growth requirements.
• Maintain and enrich enterprise data catalog information to improve data discoverability.
• Ensure business and technical metadata are accurately documented and kept up to date.
• Support classification and organization of enterprise data assets within approved cataloging frameworks.
• Promote adoption and effective utilization of data catalog capabilities.
• Lead the development of scalable data pipelines supporting enterprise analytics and reporting requirements.
• Establish standards for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and integration processes.
• Ensure reliable and efficient movement of data across enterprise platforms.
• Support delivery teams in implementing high-quality integration solutions.

• Define performance optimization strategies for large-scale data processing workloads.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks affecting data platform performance and scalability.
• Establish monitoring approaches that support proactive performance management.
• Drive capacity planning activities to ensure long-term sustainability of data platforms.
• Define engineering standards, frameworks, and best practices for data platform development.
• Ensure data engineering solutions align with architecture, governance, security, and compliance requirements.
• Promote consistency and standardization across enterprise data engineering initiatives.
• Support data governance requirements through effective technical implementation.
  
  Maintain data management records and reference materials.

• Enable data platforms that support business intelligence, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning initiatives.
• Collaborate with analytics, BI, and data science teams to ensure platform capabilities meet analytical requirements.
• Support enterprise data accessibility, discoverability, and usability objectives.
• Ensure analytical workloads are supported through reliable and scalable data services.

• Act as the organizational subject matter expert for Data Lakehouse architecture, big data technologies, and…