Data Lake Platform Manager
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About the Role
alfanar Group is seeking a Data Lake Platform Manager to ensure the stability, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency of their data lake platform. The role involves managing platform operations, optimizing performance and costs, enforcing data governance, and supporting data engineers and analysts.
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Responsibilities
- Manage the day to day operations of the data lake platform across cloud or on premises environments
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of data storage and processing services
- Monitor platform health, identify issues, and lead resolution efforts
- Optimize infrastructure costs across storage and compute resources
- Enforce data access controls, security policies, and compliance requirements
- Implement and maintain data lifecycle management policies
- Coordinate platform upgrades, patches, and feature enhancements
- Support data engineers, analysts, and data scientists using the platform
- Define and track KPIs for platform health, cost, and usage
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or relevant field
- 10 15 years of work experience
- Experience in data analysis, data lifecycle management, and data planning
- Ability to manage platform operations and ensure high availability
- Experience with data governance and security policies
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Group Overview
- Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, alfanar Group operates construction and manufacturing businesses, design & development centers and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.
- alfanar is involved in Electrical, Electromechanical and Civil Engineering Construction; Manufacturing and Marketing Electrical Construction Products; and Allied Engineering Services.
Job Purpose
- To ensure the data lake platform is stable, secure, scalable, and cost efficient, enabling reliable access to data for analytics, reporting, and data science.
- Maintains platform performance and governance while supporting continuous improvement and collaboration across technical and business teams.
Key Accountability Areas
- Manage the day to day operations of the data lake platform across cloud or on premises environments.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of data storage and processing services.
- Monitor platform health, identify issues, and lead resolution efforts.
- Oversee compute, storage, and pipeline resource utilization.
- Monitor system performance, usage trends, and capacity requirements.
- Optimize infrastructure costs across storage and compute resources.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement corrective improvements.
- Ensure scalability of the platform to support growing data volumes and workloads.
- Enforce data access controls, security policies, and compliance requirements.
- Implement and maintain data lifecycle management policies (retention, archiving, deletion).
- Support internal and external audit requirements.
- Ensure secure handling of sensitive and regulated data.
Academic Qualification
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering or Any relevant field
Work Experience
- 10 15 years
- 15+ years
Technical / Functional Competencies
- Data Analysis
- Data Lifecycle Management
- Data Planning
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