Technical Lead​/Data Architect

Technical Lead / Data Architect

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Thummamah Road, 13316

Employment Type:

Full-Time Contract Duration: 13 weeks Work Arrangement:
First 3 weeks fully on-site; remaining period hybrid Team: 6–8 Engineers/Developers

We are seeking a hands-on Technical Lead / Data Architect to lead the architecture and implementation of a cloud-based data and analytics platform. The role combines data architecture, GCP engineering, hands-on development and technical leadership.

• Lead the technical architecture and implementation of the data platform.
• Design HLD/LLD for a lakehouse architecture covering raw, standardized and curated layers.
• Design the Customer 360 data model and source-to-target mappings from GCP Data Lake and Oracle OCI.
• Design and implement GCP data pipelines and personally contribute to SQL/Python development.
• Lead a team of 6–8 data engineers/developers and conduct technical reviews.
• Implement identity resolution, including deterministic/probabilistic matching and survivorship rules.
• Establish data quality, reconciliation, lineage and metadata frameworks.
• Design Power BI semantic models, including RLS/OLS, and support Power BI embedding with Dynamics 365.
• Ensure security, encryption, audit logging, KSA data residency and PDPL compliance.
• support an AI-ready data foundation using Big Query ML / Gemini / Vertex AI where applicable

• 10+ years in data engineering and/or data architecture.
• 3+ years of hands‑on GCP experience.
• Strong experience with: o Big Query
• o Cloud Storage
• o Dataflow
• o Cloud Run and/or GKE
• o IAM   GCP networking
• o Airflow
• o dbt
• Strong SQL and Python skills with recent hands‑on development experience.
• Experience with data lake/lakehouse architecture, data modelling and integration.
• Strong Customer 360 / MDM / identity-resolution experience.
• Power BI semantic modelling, RLS/OLS and Dynamics 365 integration
• Domain   Compliance Insurance or banking data experience strongly preferred, particularly customers, policies, claims or providers.
• Experience with regulated/sensitive data environments.
• Knowledge of PDPL, KSA data residency, encryption and audit controls.
• Saudi/KSA financial‑sector experience is an advantage.

• Must be legally eligible to work in Saudi Arabia.
• Candidates of any nationality may be considered, provided they can work on‑ground in Riyadh.
• Strong English communication skills.
• Must be comfortable balancing hands‑on engineering, architecture and technical leadership.
• Important:
  This is a hands‑on role. Candidates with only architecture/team‑management experience and no recent SQL, Python and GCP implementation experience will not be suitable.

Pay: ﷼8,000.00 - ﷼10,000.00 per month

Experience:

Data architecture : 10 years (Required) GCP: 3 years (Required) SQL   Python: 5 years (Required) Language:
English (Required)

Location:

Riyadh (Required)

Work Location:

In person