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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is recognized as one of the fastest-growing mining companies globally and 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, building a world-class and fully integrated mining value chain. This full-time role is based in Riyadh.

The Opportunity: Lead Specialist, Data Lakehouse

Ma'aden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Data Lakehouse to deliver, operate, and optimize lakehouse platform capabilities. This position is crucial for supporting scalable ingestion, storage, processing, and governed consumption of enterprise data. The role ensures the lakehouse enables reliable analytics and reporting through the application of standard patterns for data layers, performance tuning, security, and cost management.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and enhance lakehouse architecture patterns, including ingestion, raw/curated layers, and data products, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reuse.
• Optimize performance of compute and storage through techniques such as partitioning, file formats, indexing, caching, and workload management, ensuring adherence to 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 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, perform design reviews, and enforce platform standards across delivery initiatives.
• Contribute to the platform roadmap and continuous improvement efforts, evaluating new features and recommending adoption aligned to enterprise needs.

Collaboration and Operational Focus

This position involves 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 to maintain a robust and efficient data lakehouse environment.

Required Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in data lakehouse platforms, data architecture, performance optimization, and data governance. A strong background in leading technical initiatives and collaborating with cross-functional teams is essential for success in this role.

Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.