About this role
About Us
Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in the region and partners with leading global and regional brands such as Apple, SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA and Amazon, as well as small and medium businesses.
Tamara is Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn and is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), SNB Capital, Checkout.com, amongst others. The company operates from its headquarters in Riyadh, with additional regional and global support offices.
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 functions.
• Define, monitor, and report on data governance KPIs, KRIs, maturity indicators, and management updates.
• Identify opportunities to improve data governance maturity, operational efficiency, reporting quality, and control effectiveness.
• Drive the execution of data governance practices, including data classification, lifecycle management, retention, metadata management, and business glossaries.
• Oversee data quality monitoring, including identifying, prioritizing, and remediating issues related to accuracy, completeness, consistency, and integrity.
• Maintain and enhance governance documentation, including data inventories, ownership registers, data lineage, and governance dashboards.
• Provide governance input and challenge for projects involving data usage, sharing, new platforms, analytics, and integrations.
• Support compliance with regulatory and industry requirements (SAMA, PDPL, PCI-DSS, and other financial services obligations).
• Lead data governance assessments and control reviews to evaluate adherence to internal policies and regulatory standards.
• Identify data-related risks and control gaps, working with stakeholders to define and track remediation plans to closure.