Senior Data Governance & MDM Engineer

Make a national platform's data trustworthy by design, owning governance, lineage, and master data, and the classification and retention that keep it compliant. RQMNA builds the sovereign data platforms that a nation trusts to hold and protect its most important data.

We are hiring a Senior Data Governance and MDM Specialist, on site in Muscat, to make a national platform's data governed, trusted, and compliant.

What you'll do

Operationalize data governance, the catalog, lineage, master data, quality, and retention.

Key Responsibilities

• Operationalize the data governance framework across a polyglot, multitenant data estate
• Run the data catalog, lineage, and business glossary, with clear, agreed definitions
• Define and steward master data and golden records through master data management (MDM)
• Set data quality rules, monitor them, and drive remediation of bad data
• Implement data classification, retention, and automated right to erasure aligned to data protection law
• Establish the data ownership and stewardship operating model across teams and entities
• Manage metadata, and make data discoverable and well understood
• Partner with the data architect, business intelligence, and security and compliance, and run governance forums

What makes you a fit

• You have run data governance, MDM, or data quality at enterprise scale, in practice not just on paper
• You know cataloging, lineage, and business glossaries, and you make definitions stick
• You have built master data and golden records, and resolved real data quality problems
• You understand classification, retention, and privacy, and how to enforce them
• You can stand up a stewardship operating model, and get people to own their data
• You hold a Bachelor's or higher in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field
• You translate regulation and policy into governance that actually holds
• Bonus points for government, regulated, or privacy heavy data environments
• Fluent English required; Arabic is a valuable advantage