Data Platform Lead / Administrator (DevOps)
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About the Role
Datamatics seeks a Data Platform Lead/Administrator to design, manage, and optimize enterprise data platform infrastructure in Riyadh. The role involves ensuring availability, security, scalability, and performance of data management platforms.
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Responsibilities
- Lead 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 SLA compliance
- 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
- 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
- Drive automation, modernization, and standardization initiatives across the data platform environment
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
- 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.
- Ensures availability, security, scalability, and performance of enterprise data management, data governance, data quality, and data privacy platforms.
- Collaborates with Data Architects, Data Modelers, DBAs, DevOps, Information Security, and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead 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 SLA compliance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Drive automation, modernization, and standardization initiatives across the data platform environment.
Qualifications & Experience
- 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.
- 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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