Job summary
Senior Data Architect role at ZainTECH in Riyadh responsible for designing data platforms and lakehouses and optimising workloads on Cloudera. The role leads technical delivery from presales and sizing through optimisation, mentors teams, and produces reference architectures and tuning playbooks.
Key responsibilities
- Design end-to-end architectures for ingestion, storage, processing, serving and governance
- Define data models, lakehouse layers, table formats and retention strategies
- Architect and size Cloudera environments including topology, capacity and HA
- Diagnose and optimise Spark, Hive and Impala workloads and YARN resource usage
- Provide presales architecture input, sizing and effort estimates
- Run platform health checks and performance assessments for clients
- Mentor engineers and administrators; create reference architectures and playbooks
- Advise on security and governance (Kerberos, Ranger, Atlas) and migrations
Requirements
- 10+ years in data engineering and data architecture
- Strong hands-on Cloudera (CDH and/or CDP) production experience
- Deep knowledge of Spark, Hive, Impala and YARN
- Solid data modelling and lakehouse/warehouse design skills
- Experience with batch and streaming ingestion (Kafka, NiFi, CDC)
- Ability to provide technical leadership and explain trade-offs
- Professional-level English; Arabic is advantageous
- Cloudera certifications preferred
Skills
Cloudera CDPCloudera CDHSparkHiveImpalaYARNKafkaNiFiIcebergData Modelling
Source: Workable. Last checked as open: 13 Nov 2026. You apply directly with the employer.
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