# Senior Data Architect

The Senior Data Architect is responsible for designing data platforms and lakehouses for ZainTECH’s customers and getting the best performance and stability out of workloads running on Cloudera. The role serves as the technical authority for ZainTECH’s Cloudera engagements, from presales and sizing through delivery and optimisation, within the Data & AI business unit, Data Engineering & Management stream. Working closely with customer architects and stakeholders, delivery teams, platform administrators and Cloudera, the Senior Data Architect provides architecture direction, platform sizing, workload optimisation and technical leadership. The role also builds the practice by mentoring engineers and administrators and creating reference architectures, tuning playbooks and sizing tools. The position is Senior / Lead level, with a flexible location that is not limited to KSA. Responsibilities: Data Architecture Design end-to-end data architectures covering ingestion, storage, processing, serving and governance layers for analytics and AI use cases. Define data models, lakehouse layering, table formats, and data lifecycle and retention strategies. Make sound technology choices and trade

- **Id**: 4068721
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zaintech-senior-data-architect>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- **Countries**: SA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T12:36:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T17:35:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4292
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Information Security, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Managed IT Services (MSP), Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 5748
- **Name**: ZainTECH
- **Domain**: zaintech.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zaintech>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 106
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Apache NiFi** — Optional: no
- **Trino** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T12:36:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 106
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T20:40:59Z

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