Data Platform Lead / Administrator (DevOps)
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About the Role
The company is seeking a Data Platform Lead / Administrator to design, manage, and optimize enterprise data platform infrastructure, ensuring availability, security, scalability, and performance.
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Responsibilities
- 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 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
Requirements
- 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
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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 priva
- The role collaborates with Data Architects, Data Modelers, Database Administrators, DevOps, 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Data Platform Management: Lead administration, management, and continuous improvement of enterprise data platforms; design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available environments; ensure alignment with organizational strategy and data governance; manage operational support for d
- Infrastructure & Performance Management: Monitor platform health, availability, and performance; perform performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization; implement logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards; manage backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business con
- Data Integration & Engineering Support: Collaborate with Data Architects, Data Modelers, DBAs, 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
- Governance, Security & Compliance: Implement and maintain platform security, access controls, authentication, and authorization; support implementation of enterprise Data Governance, Data Privacy, and Information Security requirements; ensure compliance with organizational policies and regulatory st
- Automation & DevOps: Drive automation, modernization, and standardization initiatives; implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices; automate operational monitoring, provisioning, deployment, and maintenance; improve operational efficiency through scripting, orchestr
- Stakeholder Collaboration: 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 sup
Qualifications & Experience
- 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.
Technical Skills
- Option 1 (Open Source / Cloud Stack): Must have DevOps platform setup and administration; Good to have OpenMetadata, Great Expectations, Ethyca Fides.
- Option 2 (Enterprise Informatica Stack): Must have DevOps platform setup for Informatica Secure Agent, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), Cloud Data Governance & Catalog (CDGC), Cloud Data Quality (CDQ).
- Additional Experience Preferred: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Snowflake, SQL Server, Databricks, Microsoft Dynamics.
Preferred Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
- AWS Certified Data Engineer
- Snowflake SnowPro Certification
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer
- Microsoft Azure Administrator
- Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Docker Certified Associate
- DevOps Engineer Certification
- Informatica Professional Certification
- Equivalent cloud, DevOps, or enterprise data platform certifications
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