Job description

Requisition ID:28479 

CityGROUP IT 

 Group Overview:

  Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design &  development centers and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.

alfanar is involved in:

  • Electrical, Electromechanical and Civil Engineering Construction

  • Manufacturing and Marketing Electrical Construction Products

  • Allied Engineering Services

 Our Main Divisions:

  • alfanar electric

  • alfanar Construction

  • alfanar Building Systems

To ensure the data lake platform is stable, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient, enabling reliable access to data for analytics, reporting, and data science. Maintains platform performance and governance while supporting continuous improvement and collaboration across technical and business teams.

Platform Operations & Management:

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the data lake platform across cloud or on-premises environments
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of data storage and processing services
• Monitor platform health, identify issues, and lead resolution efforts
• Oversee compute, storage, and pipeline resource utilization

Performance & Cost Optimization:

• Monitor system performance, usage trends, and capacity requirements
• Optimize infrastructure costs across storage and compute resources
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement corrective improvements
• Ensure scalability of the platform to support growing data volumes and workloads

Data Governance, Security & Compliance:

• Enforce data access controls, security policies, and compliance requirements
• Implement and maintain data lifecycle management policies (retention, archiving, deletion)
• Support internal and external audit requirements
• Ensure secure handling of sensitive and regulated data

Platform Development & Change Management:

• Coordinate platform upgrades, patches, and feature enhancements
• Collaborate with engineering teams on infrastructure and architecture improvements
• Manage integration of new tools and services into the data ecosystem
• Ensure controlled and low-risk deployment of platform changes

Stakeholder Support & Enablement:

• Support data engineers, analysts, and data scientists using the platform
• Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, and data access issues
• Improve usability, discoverability, and accessibility of data assets
• Act as escalation point for platform-related incidents and requests

Monitoring, Reporting & Documentation:

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for platform health, cost, and usage
• Provide regular reporting to leadership on platform performance and risks
• Maintain operational documentation and standards for platform usage
• Recommend improvements based on monitoring insight

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Preferred candidate

Years of experience

No experience required

Degree

Bachelor's degree / higher diploma