JobSecurity & cybersecurity
Data Governance Lead
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
About Us
Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others.
Your Role
The Data Governance Lead will be responsible for leading the implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of Tamara’s data governance framework, ensuring that data is managed as a trusted, secure, well-controlled, and valuable organizational asset.
You will work closely with business, data, engineering, security, privacy, compliance, risk, and product teams to establish clear data ownership, strengthen data quality, maintain data governance standards, embed governance requirements into business and technology processes, and support regulatory and audit readiness. You will play a key role in maturing Tamara’s data governance capabilities across data ownership, classification, quality, lifecycle management, metadata, reporting, and governance assurance.
Your Responsibilities
• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Tamara’s data governance policies, standards, procedures, and operating models.
• Establish and maintain data ownership, stewardship, and accountability models across business and technology function