ETIC, Data Governance, Manager

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Technology

Specialism

Advisory - Other

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

As a Data Engineering Manager, you will lead the design, development, and optimization of modern data platforms and pipelines on Azure and Databricks. You will oversee a team of data engineers and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions that enable advanced analytics, AI, and business insights for enterprise clients.

We are seeking a client-facing Data Governance Manager to design and implement governance programs that enable trusted, compliant, and high-quality data across our clients’ enterprises. You will lead governance operating models, policies, metadata and catalog initiatives, data quality management, and privacy/security controls-working closely with stakeholders in Data/Analytics, Engineering, Security, Risk, Legal, and business domains across the Middle East.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy and Operating Model

• Define a pragmatic data governance strategy aligned to client business outcomes.

• Establish governance operating models (councils, RACI, data owner/steward roles).

• Develop andmaintainpolicies, standards, and procedures (quality, metadata, classification, access, retention).

• Metadata, Catalog, and Lineage

• Stand up and administer enterprise data catalogs and business glossaries.

• Identifyand manage critical data elements (CDEs) and data domains with clear ownership.

• Drive metadata standards and automated lineage for impact analysis and change control.

• Data Quality Management

• Define data quality dimensions, rules, thresholds, and SLAs for priority datasets.

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and issue management; drive RCA and remediation.

• Partner with engineering to embed quality checks into pipelines and data contracts.

• Privacy, Security, and Compliance (Middle East focus)

• Implement data classification and handling standards; support privacy-by-design.

• Partner with Security/IAM on RBAC/ABAC, masking, encryption, and least-privilege access.

• Support compliance with regional and international regulations, such as:

• Egypt Personal Data Protection Law (Law 151/2020)

• KSA PDPL, UAE Data Protection Law, Bahrain PDPL, Qatar PDP Law

• GDPR/CPRA (as applicable to client operations)

• Sectoral requirements (e.g., SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA where relevant)

• Advise oncross-border data transfer, residency, and sovereignty considerations.

• Lifecycle and Risk

• Define retention/disposal schedules, archival practices, and defensible disposition.

• Review new data sources, sharing agreements, and vendors for governance and risk impacts.

• Change Management and Adoption

• Lead governance councils and steward communities; drive accountability and adoption.

• Deliver communications, training, and data literacy programs to uplift capabilities.

• Reporting and KPIs

• Build governance scorecards covering DQ health, lineage coverage, glossary adoption, and policy compliance.

• Report progress and risks to client executives and audit/compliance stakeholders.

• Tools and Enablement

• Evaluate, implement, and manage governance tooling (catalog, DQ, lineage, MDM).

• Create playbooks, templates, and self-service guides to scale best practices.

• Consulting and Practice Development

• Contribute to proposals, SOWs, and solutioning; estimate effort and plan deliveries.

• Coach junior team members; contribute to accelerators and thought leadership.

WhatYou’llBring

• 5+ years in data governance/data management, with at least 2 years leading multi-stakeholder initiatives; consulting experience preferred.

• Strong grounding in DAMA-DMBOK and/or DCAM, and practical experience with:

• Data ownership/stewardship models and governance forums

• Data cataloging, business glossary, and lineage

• Data quality frameworks and issue management

• Data classification, access governance, retention, and lifecycle

• Hands-on experience with relevant tools and platforms (one or more):

• Catalog/metadata: Collibra, Alation, Informatica Axon/EDC, Atlan, Microsoft Purview

• Data quality/observability: Informatica IDQ, Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, Bigeye

• MDM: Informatica, Reltio,Semarchy

• Lineage: Built-in catalog lineage, MANTA,OpenLineage

• Cloud/data platforms: Azure (incl. Purview), AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks; strong SQL

• Understanding ofIAM concepts (RBAC/ABAC), masking/tokenization, API governance, CDC/event schemas, and data-sharing patterns.

• Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2 is a plus.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills; ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes.

• Education:Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or related field; advanced degree/certifications (CDMP, DCAM, Collibra Ranger, CIPP/CIPM/CIPT) are a plus.

• Language: Fluent Englishrequired; Arabic is a strong plus.

• Work authorization in Egypt.

Working Model and Travel

• Hybrid role based in Cairo ETIC; collaboration aligned with Gulf business hours as needed.

• Regional travel to client sites across the Middle East may berequired(up to 20-30%), subject to project needs.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Agile Scalability, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analytical Thinking, Apache Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Creativity, Data Anonymization, Database Administration, Database Management System (DBMS), Database Optimization, Database Security Best Practices, Data Engineering, Data Engineering Platforms, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Data Lake, Data Modeling, Data Pipeline, Data Quality, Data Transformation {+ 24 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date