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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is recognized as one of the fastest-growing mining companies globally and holds the position of the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is actively leading the development of the mining industry to establish it as the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy, through building a world-class, fully integrated mining value chain. This role contributes to Ma'aden's strategic growth and its objective to shape the future of mining in the Kingdom.

The Role: Lead Specialist, Data Lakehouse II

As a Lead Specialist, Data Lakehouse II based in Riyadh, you will be responsible for delivering, operating, and optimizing lakehouse platform capabilities. This full-time position supports scalable ingestion, storage, processing, and governed consumption of enterprise data. The role ensures the lakehouse enables reliable analytics and reporting by applying standard patterns for data layers, performance tuning, security, and cost management. You will work closely with platform engineering, data engineering, and governance teams to embed controls, ensure operational excellence, and support delivery teams with reference architectures and implementation guidance.

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 through partitioning, file formats, indexing, caching, and workload management, ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) for priority use cases.
• Embed governance-by-design 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 incident and problem management improvements.
• 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, perform design reviews, and enforce platform standards across delivery initiatives.
• Contribute to the platform roadmap and continuous improvement, evaluating new features and recommending adoption aligned to enterprise needs.

Required Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant professional experience in data lakehouse platforms, data engineering, or a related field. This experience should include a proven track record in delivering, operating, and optimizing data platforms to support enterprise analytics and reporting requirements.

Ma'aden High Performance Competencies

Successful candidates will demonstrate the following core competencies:

• Ownership & Accountability: Taking end-to-end ownership for delivery and outcomes.
• Collaboration: Working effectively across engineering, governance, and business teams.
• Execution Excellence: Delivering robust solutions with strong quality and reliability.
• Continuous Improvement: Improving performance, cost, and operability over time.
• Impact & Influence: Guiding teams and vendors through technical leadership.

Application Process

We invite qualified candidates to apply for this full-time position in Riyadh and contribute to Ma'aden's continued growth in the mining industry.