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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, 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, achieved by building a world-class, fully integrated mining value chain.

Role Overview

The Lead Specialist, Data Lakehouse II is responsible for the delivery, operation, and optimization of lakehouse platform capabilities. This role supports scalable ingestion, storage, processing, and governed consumption of enterprise data. The position ensures the lakehouse enables reliable analytics and reporting by applying standard patterns for data layers, performance tuning, security, and cost management.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and enhance lakehouse architecture patterns (ingestion, raw/curated layers, data products) to ensure scalability, maintainability, and reuse.
• Optimize 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 (health checks, pipeline observability, capacity, 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, performing design reviews and enforcing 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 between 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in data lakehouse platforms or related data architecture and engineering fields.

Collaboration and Operational Excellence

This position requires close collaboration with platform engineering, data engineering, and governance teams. The Lead Specialist will embed controls, ensure operational excellence, and support delivery teams with reference architectures and implementation guidance, contributing to the company's data strategy and growth objectives.

Location and Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.