Data Management Consultant (Arabic Speaker)

**Qualifications and Experience** Candidates should meet the qualification and experience requirements specified in the attached job analysis form: * **Master’s degree** in Data Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Statistics, or another closely related discipline, with approximately **10–13 years of total experience**, including **8–10 years of relevant Data Management experience** and **2–3 years of supervisory or lead experience**; or * **Bachelor’s degree** in a relevant discipline, with approximately **12–15 years of total experience**, including **9–11 years of relevant experience** and **3–4 years of supervisory or lead experience**. * Strong professional communication capability is required. **Arabic and English capability is strongly preferred**, particularly for candidates expected to prepare governance documentation and engage with government stakeholders. **Core Data Management Expertise** Candidates should demonstrate proven consulting and implementation experience across several of the following areas: * Enterprise Data Governance framework design and operationalization * Current\-state and Data Management maturity assessments, gap analysis, and improvement roadmaps * Data Quality frameworks, dimensions, business rules, controls, scorecards, monitoring, root\-cause analysis, and remediation planning * Metadata Management, including business glossaries, data dictionaries, data catalogues, lineage, ownership, and stewardship * Master Data Management (MDM), reference data, Golden Record, matching, survivorship, deduplication, and authoritative data sources * Enterprise Data Modelling, including conceptual and logical models * Data classification, privacy, security, risk, retention, and regulatory compliance * Data exchange and interoperability, including APIs, data contracts, integration standards, and cross\-system data flows * Data strategy, operating models, annual roadmaps, KPIs, governance controls, risk registers, and executive reporting * Development of policies, standards, procedures, SOPs, governance playbooks, and formal documentation suitable for organizational approval **Emerging and Strategic Capabilities** Priority should be given to candidates who can support emerging Digital Dubai requirements, particularly: * **AI\-ready data**, including data readiness assessments, fitness\-for\-purpose and quality for AI, metadata, lineage and provenance, ownership, privacy\-by\-design, and ongoing governance * **Dubai Registers and authoritative data sources**, including register governance, ownership models, unified definitions, Data Quality, metadata, unique identifiers, interoperability, and single\-source\-of\-truth principles * **Government\-wide data exchange**, including entity onboarding, data inventory and prioritization, classification, metadata onboarding, data contracts, compliance monitoring, and ongoing data maintenance * **Automation of Data Management controls**, including automated profiling, validation, Data Quality monitoring, workflow tracking, and management dashboards * Experience translating strategies and frameworks into practical operating models, implementation roadmaps, governance controls, measurable KPIs, and sustainable operational processes * Ability to bridge **business, governance, policy, and technical teams**, rather than being limited to either policy documentation or technical implementation alone **Government and Stakeholder Experience** The preferred candidate should have: * Strong experience in government, public\-sector, regulated, or complex federated environments * Experience working across multiple entities and coordinating business owners, data owners, stewards, legal, compliance, information security, architecture, engineering, and platform teams * Ability to facilitate workshops, achieve stakeholder alignment, present recommendations to senior leadership, and manage competing priorities * Strong executive writing, presentation, negotiation, advisory, and change\-management skills * Experience building internal capability through structured knowledge transfer, training, governance playbooks, and mentoring **Preferred Frameworks, Certifications, and Tools** Preference may be given to candidates with: * CDMP, DCAM, Certified Data Governance Professional, Certified Data Quality Professional, or equivalent professional credentials * Practical knowledge of **DAMA\-DMBOK, DCAM, ISO 8000**, and recognized Data Management maturity or governance frameworks * Experience with enterprise Data Governance, Data Quality, metadata, or data catalogue platforms such as **Ataccama, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, or equivalent platforms** * Working knowledge of SQL, data profiling, Power BI or Tableau, and modern data platforms * Project or programme management certification or experience, such as **PMP**, particularly for candidates who have led or managed enterprise\-wide data transformation initiatives **Skills:** Data Governance , Data Quality , SQL