Lead Specialist Platform Architect OT & Control Platform II📣 إعلان

About Ma'aden

Established in 1997, Ma'aden is recognized as one of the fastest-growing mining companies globally and stands as the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is instrumental in developing the mining industry to become the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy, achieving this by building a world-class, fully integrated mining value chain.

Role Overview

Ma'aden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Platform Architect OT & Control Platform II to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position involves contributing to the company's enterprise architecture direction and ensuring architectural alignment across various platforms and systems within the operational technology (OT) and control environments. The role plays a part in shaping the future of mining in the Kingdom.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Enterprise Architecture Direction: Contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures. Translate enterprise architecture vision and roadmaps into actionable guidance for domain, platform, and solution architects. Ensure architectural designs across data, AI, OT, and core systems align with defined enterprise standards.
• Govern Architecture Alignment: Participate in architecture reviews led by the Enterprise Architecture Director or Architecture Review Board. Identify risks related to fragmentation, duplication, or unmanaged technical debt and escalate where appropriate.
• Enable Cross-Domain Integration: Apply defined integration patterns and reference architectures across platforms and systems. Support end-to-end interoperability across IT, OT, data, and digital environments. Collaborate with integration, data, and platform teams to ensure scalable and reusable solutions.
• Partner with Domain and Platform Teams: Work closely with Domain Architects, Platform Architects, and engineering teams to support solution design. Act as a point of coordination between delivery teams and enterprise architecture governance.
• Architecture Documentation and Communication: Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, including diagrams, standards, and design guidelines. Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and constraints to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant professional experience in platform architecture, particularly within operational technology (OT) and control environments.

Work Location

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Information

Interested applicants are encouraged to submit their qualifications for consideration.