Data Governance Lead — SAMA & PDPL Readiness at Tamara, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Tamara, Saudi Arabia's first fintech unicorn and the GCC's leading buy-now-pay-later platform, is hiring a Data Governance Lead in Riyadh to own the framework that keeps its data trusted, secure, and well-controlled as the company scales.
About the Opportunity
Tamara serves millions of users and partners with global brands including Apple, SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA, and Amazon. As Data Governance Lead, you'll build and run data governance across the whole organisation — working with business, data, engineering, security, privacy, compliance, risk, and product teams to embed governance into how Tamara builds and operates.
What You'll Own
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of data governance policies, standards, procedures, and operating models
- Establish data ownership, stewardship, and accountability across business and technology functions
- Define and report on data governance KPIs, KRIs, and maturity indicators
- Drive data classification, lifecycle management, retention, metadata management, and business glossaries
- Oversee data quality monitoring — accuracy, completeness, consistency, and integrity — and drive issues to remediation
- Maintain governance documentation: data inventories, ownership registers, lineage, and dashboards
- Challenge and guide projects involving data usage, sharing, new platforms, analytics, and integrations
- Support regulatory and industry compliance (SAMA, PDPL, PCI-DSS and other financial services obligations)
- Run governance assessments and control reviews, identifying data risks and tracking remediation to closure
What You Bring
- Proven experience leading data governance, data management, or data quality programmes — ideally in financial services or fintech
- Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks like SAMA, PDPL, and PCI-DSS
- Strong stakeholder skills: you can push governance standards through business and tech teams without being the bottleneck
- Analytical thinking, with the ability to turn governance frameworks into practical controls
Why Join Tamara
Backed by Sanabil Investments (PIF), SNB Capital, and Checkout.com, Tamara operates from its Riyadh HQ with regional and global support offices — a rare chance to shape data governance at a regulated, high-growth fintech in the Kingdom.
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