Director Cloud Connectivity & Operational Technology

About the Role

Ma’aden is seeking a Director, Cloud, Connectivity & Operational Technology to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is central to establishing the technological foundations that ensure secure, resilient, and increasingly connected industrial operations across the company. The position involves defining the enterprise direction for operational technology, connectivity, cloud, and edge environments, thereby creating a consistent digital backbone between plant systems, production environments, and enterprise technology.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Director, Cloud, Connectivity & Operational Technology creates value by enhancing the reliability, scalability, and maturity of industrial technology. This role enables automation, real-time operational insight, and data-driven decision-making. It strengthens the convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) while ensuring that architecture, platforms, and technology investments align with operational priorities and enterprise standards. Through enterprise governance, modernization, and capability building, the role supports Ma’aden in scaling digital and autonomous operations, strengthening operational resilience, and managing industrial technology risks.

Key Duties

• Shape and execute the enterprise strategy and roadmap for OT architecture, cloud, edge, connectivity, and industrial technology, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and technology priorities.
• Establish standards, governance, and lifecycle principles to create consistent, scalable, and resilient industrial technology environments across all sites.
• Translate operational priorities and technology maturity gaps into targeted transformation initiatives with clear performance outcomes.

Core Responsibilities

• Drive the modernization and standardization of critical OT systems and controls, including PLC, DCS, SCADA, MES, LIMS, and historian environments.
• Strengthen the availability, reliability, interoperability, and lifecycle performance of technology supporting mining and processing operations.
• Enable resilient cloud, edge, hosting, and connectivity environments that provide dependable data exchange across industrial and enterprise systems.

Experience Required

Candidates for this position should possess 10-15 years of relevant experience.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.