MANAGER, DATA LAKE PLATFORM

Job Purpose

To ensure the data lake platform is stable, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient, enabling reliable access to data for analytics, reporting, and data science. Maintains platform performance and governance while supporting continuous improvement and collaboration across technical and business teams.

Key Accountability Areas

Platform Operations & Management:

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the data lake platform across cloud or on-premises environments
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of data storage and processing services
• Monitor platform health, identify issues, and lead resolution efforts
• Oversee compute, storage, and pipeline resource utilization

Performance & Cost Optimization:

• Monitor system performance, usage trends, and capacity requirements
• Optimize infrastructure costs across storage and compute resources
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement corrective improvements
• Ensure scalability of the platform to support growing data volumes and workloads

Data Governance, Security & Compliance:

• Enforce data access controls, security policies, and compliance requirements
• Implement and maintain data lifecycle management policies (retention, archiving, deletion)
• Support internal and external audit requirements
• Ensure secure handling of sensitive and regulated data

Platform Development & Change Management:

• Coordinate platform upgrades, patches, and feature enhancements
• Collaborate with engineering teams on infrastructure and architecture improvements
• Manage integration of new tools and services into the data ecosystem
• Ensure controlled and low-risk deployment of platform changes

Stakeholder Support & Enablement:

• Support data engineers, analysts, and data scientists using the platform
• Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, and data access issues
• Improve usability, discoverability, and accessibility of data assets
• Act as escalation point for platform-related incidents and requests

Monitoring, Reporting & Documentation:

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for platform health, cost, and usage
• Provide regular reporting to leadership on platform performance and risks
• Maintain operational documentation and standards for platform usage
• Recommend improvements based on monitoring insight

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies