Experience: 4–7 years
Primary platform: Informatica IDMC – Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC), Cloud Data Access Management
Works closely with: MRDM Specialist, Data Quality Specialist, Information Security, Legal/Compliance, Business Data Owners
Location: Doha, Qatar
Role Purpose
The role holder operationalizes the organization’s data governance and data privacy framework and makes it real in Informatica IDMC. The focus is hands-on: building and running the business glossary, catalog, lineage, data classification and access policies, and embedding ownership and stewardship across business domains so that data is trusted, well understood and handled in line with privacy law.
Key Responsibilities
Governance Operating Model
- Implement and maintain the data governance framework, including policies, standards, data ownership and stewardship roles (owners, stewards, custodians) and the supporting RACI for each business domain.
- Coordinate the data governance council and working groups: prepare agendas, maintain the decisions and issues log, and track actions to closure.
- Identify and document Critical Data Elements (CDEs) with business owners, and define their definitions, owners, quality expectations, and usage rules.
Catalog, Glossary \& Lineage (CDGC)
- Build and maintain the business glossary, data domains, sub-domains, policies and processes in CDGC, and link them to technical assets.
- Configure and schedule catalog sources for databases, data warehouses, cloud data platforms and BI tools, including metadata extraction, profiling and relationship discovery.
- Establish and validate end-to-end lineage for CDEs, key reports and regulatory submissions.
- Configure CDGC workflows for term approval, ownership assignment and change control; drive user onboarding and adoption, including Cloud Data Marketplace where in scope.
Data Privacy \& Protection
- Discover, classify and tag personal and sensitive data using CDGC data classification (out-of-the-box and custom rules), and maintain the sensitive data inventory.
- Maintain the Record of Processing Activities (RoPA) and support Data Protection Impact Assessments, data subject requests, retention and disposal.
- Define and implement data access, masking, and pseudonymization policies with Information Security, using Cloud Data Access Management or equivalent controls.
- Map governance and privacy controls to applicable regulations and standards, including the Qatar Personal Data Privacy Protection Law (Law No. 13 of 2016), the National Information Assurance (NIA) Policy, the National Data Classification Policy, sector-specific regulatory requirements, and GDPR where relevant, and support internal/external audits with evidence.
Measurement \& Collaboration
- Define and report governance KPIs such as glossary coverage, CDE ownership, lineage coverage, classification coverage, and data quality scores.
- Work with the Data Quality Specialist to link DQ rules and scorecards to CDEs in CDGC, and with the MRDM Specialist to govern master and reference data domains.
- Deliver awareness sessions and guidance on governance and privacy for business and technical users.
Experience \& Technical Requirements (Must Have)
- 4–7 years of experience in data management, with at least 3 years focused on data governance and/or data privacy.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience with Informatica IDMC Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC), including at least one end-to-end implementation taken to production.
- Practical experience with business glossary, metadata scanning, lineage, data classification, and governance workflows.
- Working knowledge of data privacy principles (lawful basis, purpose limitation, minimization, retention, privacy by design) and of at least one data protection regulation.
- Good understanding of the DAMA-DMBOK framework and governance operating models.
- Good SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases, cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse/Fabric, BigQuery) and BI tools (e.g. Power BI).
- Conceptual understanding of ETL/ELT and data integration patterns, sufficient to interpret and validate lineage and trace where sensitive data flows.
- Hands-on experience defining and implementing data access, masking, or pseudonymization policies, preferably in Informatica Cloud Data Access Management.
Desirable
- Experience migrating from Informatica Axon/EDC to CDGC.
- Exposure to Cloud Data Marketplace or CLAIRE AI features in IDMC.
- Experience with consent management or privacy management tools (e.g., OneTrust).
- Experience in regulated sectors (government, banking, energy, healthcare, telecom).
- English is a must; Arabic language skills are an advantage.
Qualifications \& Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- Preferred: Informatica IDMC certification in Cloud Data Governance and Catalog.
- Preferred: one or more of DAMA CDMP (Associate or Practitioner), IAPP CIPP/E or CIPM, ISACA CDPSE, EDM Council DCAM.
Behavioural Competencies
- Stakeholder engagement: able to work with business data owners, IT, security, legal and audit, and explain data topics in plain business language.
- Structured and documented: produces clear specifications, standards, runbooks and decision records.
- Delivery mindset: comfortable in Agile/Scrum delivery with defined sprints, SIT/UAT cycles and go-live support.
- Ownership: works independently, raises risks early, and follows issues through to closure.
Work Location: Remote
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