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About the Role

Maaden, established in 1997, is a rapidly growing mining company and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals entity in the Middle East. We are seeking a Lead Specialist, Data Lakehouse II to contribute to our ambitious growth and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of mining in the Kingdom. This role is responsible for delivering, operating, and optimizing lakehouse platform capabilities to support scalable ingestion, storage, processing, and governed consumption of enterprise data, enabling reliable analytics and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and enhance lakehouse architecture patterns, including ingestion, raw/curated layers, and data products, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reuse.
• Optimize the performance of compute and storage resources through effective partitioning, file formats, indexing, caching, and workload management to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for priority use cases.
• Embed governance-by-design principles by integrating security, access controls, classification handling, and auditability into platform patterns.
• Support ingestion and transformation pipelines by providing platform guidance on orchestration, reliability patterns, and error handling.
• Define and maintain operational monitoring, including health checks, pipeline observability, capacity, and costs, and drive improvements in incident and problem management.
• Collaborate with data modeling and governance teams to ensure metadata, lineage, and data quality controls are systematically applied to lakehouse assets.
• Provide technical leadership to specialists and vendors, conduct design reviews, and enforce platform standards across all delivery initiatives.
• Contribute to the platform roadmap and continuous improvement by evaluating new features and recommending adoption aligned with enterprise needs.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 7 to 10 years of experience in data engineering and modern data platforms, with hands-on experience in lakehouse technologies.
• Proven experience operating production platforms with responsibilities for reliability, security, and cost optimization.

Required Skills

• Hands-on experience with lakehouse architectures, data processing engines, and cloud storage/compute optimization.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, and access control requirements as applied to data platforms.
• Proficiency in operational excellence, including monitoring, incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Ability to create effective reference architectures and provide strong support to multiple delivery teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, governance, and data consumer teams.

Work Location and Type

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