Data Protection Senior Lead Specialist

Tadawul Group

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Define, understand, and implement data governance strategies across the organization in support of business and data initiatives.

2. Analyze inputs from management on existing data issues, governance practices to understand current practices and pain areas and provide perspective to mitigate issues raised.

3. Assess, design, and implement improvements in policies and processes related to communication/coordination of organization data governance initiatives, such as data quality, access management, etc. and across data governance categories, including access, lineage, quality, security, change management, environment, and monetization.

4. Establish and maintain clearly defined data roles and responsibilities at the strategic and operational levels with a focus on decision-making and issue resolution responsibilities.

5. Effectively communicate relevant project information, including status reports from project work streams, to senior management and the project team.

6. Oversee and collaborate on defining and designing various governance templates, SLAs, and benchmarks on policies, including communications, data exchanges, retention, escalation timelines, quality, etc.

7. Lead in establishing a robust data architecture to accommodate evolving regulatory requirements flexible enough to support a wide range of future growth initiatives.

8. Adhere to the governance calendar and ensure that all governance meetings and agendas are met on stipulated timelines.

9. Ensure issue management, tracking, and resolution of escalations raised by business users related to access, catalog, quality, and traceability.

10. Measure and track the ROI on data initiatives and projects.

11. Identify best practices and global governance trends across the industry and share insights with the team and the Data Management Committee

Key Accountabilities:

1. Carry out daily operations assigned for the department to comply with the company s standards.

2. Prepare timely and accurate department reports to meet the requirements, objectives, and standards of the company and the department.

3. Ensure the satisfaction of internal and external customers to address their needs in a courteous and timely manner.

4. Follow all relevant policies, procedures, and processes in order for the work to be carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

5. Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of processes and practices, work processes, cost effectiveness, and productivity enhancement.

6. Promote to other employees within the organization the implementation and adherence to policies, procedures, processes, and instructions.

7. Maintain a good and respectful relationship with other colleagues and represent the company in a good image.

Education and Certifications:

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent.

Knowledge and Experience:

6 + years of experience in preferably at post graduate level and relevant work experience.