Data Governance Analyst

Company Description talabat is the leading on-demand food and non-food delivery platform in MENA, operating across 8 countries and processing hundreds of millions of orders annually. We're part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce, and we're engineering-first. Our teams operate under Data Governance Engineer As our data estate grows, we need someone to own governance across the organisation—ensuring data is secure, high-quality, discoverable, and compliant. You're not building pipelines or managing platforms—you're the person who defines what "secure" and "compliant" means, makes access policy calls independently, tests for it rigorously, and drives accountability when something breaks. You'll use AI tools—Claude, semantic layer generators, LLM-based data profilers—as your default to scale governance work while knowing when to stay human for policy decisions and escalations. Your Profile: You have extensive experience in data governance, data modelling, data quality, or compliance in regulated or fast-moving environments. You understand RBAC, access control models, data classification, and security best practices as lived experience, not certifications. You're genuinely fluent in SQL and data modeling; you can read and critique semantic layers (LookML, BigQuery). You can articulate trade-offs between strict access control and enabling velocity, and write findings documents that land with both technical and non-technical audiences. You're AI-native—using Claude and semantic layer generators as part of your daily flow. You know which governance tasks scale through AI (auto-documentation, pattern detection, quality scoring) and which require human judgment (policy decisions, compliance interpretation, escalations). You can describe your workflow specifically: what you do by hand and what you delegate to AI. What You'll Own: Data Discovery: - Build and maintain comprehe