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

Role Overview 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.

Key Responsibilities 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 BigQuery ML / Gemini / Vertex AI where applicable

Required Technical Experience 10+ years in data engineering and/or data architecture. 3+ years of hands-on GCP experience. Strong experience with: o BigQuery 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. Candidate Requirements 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