Data Platform Lead / Administrator (DevOps)
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Key Responsibilities Data Platform Management Lead the administration, management, and continuous improvement of enterprise data platforms and supporting infrastructure. Design,.
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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, DBAs, 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 related discipline
- Minimum 5 years of experience managing and administering enterprise data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, or BI platforms
- Experience supporting cloud and on premises enterprise data environments
- Experience implementing platform monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions
- 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, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills
- Strong project coordination, documentation, and stakeholder management capabilities
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Key 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.
Infrastructure & Performance Management
- 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.
Data Integration & Engineering Support
- 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.
Governance, Security & Compliance
- 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.
Automation & DevOps
- Drive automation, modernization, and standardization initiatives across the data platform environment.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices for platform deployment and maintenance.
- Automate operational monitoring, provisioning, deployment, and maintenance activities.
- Improve operational efficiency through scripting, orchestration, and workflow automation.
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 support for platform users.
- Participate in solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support activities.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Management, or a related discipline.
Experience
- 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.
Mandatory Skills
- 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, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
- Strong project coordination, documentation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
Regulatory Knowledge
- Good understanding of SDAIA Data Management Framework.
- Good understanding of NDMO Data Management Standards.
- Good understanding of Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL).
- Good understanding of Information Security and Data Governance best practices.
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