Lead Specialist Technical Solutions

About the Role

Ma'aden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Solutions, to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is responsible for enabling the successful delivery of technology and innovation initiatives. The Lead Specialist will transform business needs into scalable, integrated, and deployable technical solutions, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable business outcomes while aligning with enterprise architecture, operational requirements, and long-term strategic objectives.

Role Purpose and Impact

Acting as a key technical authority across complex initiatives, this role bridges business priorities, domain requirements, and enterprise technology capabilities. It ensures solutions are architecturally sound, operationally viable, secure, and capable of supporting sustainable growth across mining, processing, and enterprise operations. Through technical leadership, stakeholder alignment, and delivery assurance, the role strengthens solution quality, accelerates implementation effectiveness, and promotes the adoption of reusable technology patterns that improve scalability, reliability, and value realization.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end technical solutions that align business objectives, operational requirements, and enterprise technology standards.
• Define scalable architectures, integration patterns, data flows, interfaces, deployment approaches, and non-functional requirements.
• Guide multidisciplinary delivery teams through implementation, testing, deployment, and transition into operations.
• Strengthen delivery quality through technical oversight, design assurance, and proactive resolution of complex technical challenges.
• Translate business priorities into practical and achievable technical solutions that support strategic and operational objectives.
• Shape solution scope, success measures, value hypotheses, and implementation roadmaps with business and technology stakeholders.
• Enable seamless integration across data, applications, OT, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and enterprise platforms.
• Resolve technical dependencies, design risks, and implementation constraints that may impact solution success.
• Develop reusable solution patterns, standards, templates, and best practices that improve delivery efficiency and consistency.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption opportunities based on business value, scalability, and maintainability.

Required Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in technical solutions and architecture. The role requires a strong understanding of enterprise architecture, operational requirements, and strategic objectives to ensure technology investments deliver measurable business outcomes.

Measures of Success

• Technical solutions are approved, implemented, and consistently aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Solutions demonstrate strong reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and operational readiness.
• Technical risks, integration challenges, and dependencies are identified and resolved effectively.
• Delivery teams achieve successful implementation outcomes with minimal rework and strong architectural compliance.
• Stakeholders report high levels of satisfaction with solution quality, business alignment, and value delivery.
• Reusable technical patterns improve delivery speed, consistency, and long-term sustainability.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. The role involves working with multidisciplinary delivery teams and engaging with various business and technology stakeholders to drive alignment and ensure successful solution implementation.