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About Ma'aden and the Role

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 actively developing the mining industry to become a key pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building a world-class, fully integrated mining value chain. This full-time position for a Lead Specialist, Data Product II is based in Riyadh and offers an opportunity to contribute to Ma'aden's growth objectives.

Role Purpose

The Lead Specialist, Data Product II is responsible for designing and delivering high-quality solution-level data models and architecture artifacts. This role ensures the creation of consistent, governed, and performant data products. The specialist applies enterprise standards to delivery initiatives and collaborates with engineering, governance, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into implementable models. This position provides advanced technical leadership within delivery squads, focusing on modeling quality, integration readiness, and conformance to enterprise patterns across multiple projects and domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain logical and physical data models for analytics, integration, and reporting use cases, adhering to enterprise standards and naming conventions.
• Translate business requirements into consistent entities, attributes, and relationships, ensuring definitions align with the business glossary and stewardship ownership.
• Develop dimensional models and curated layer schemas that support performant analytics and standardized Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Define mappings and transformation rules from source systems to curated layers, ensuring traceability, lineage, and reconciliation requirements are met.
• Participate in solution design reviews, identifying modeling risks and recommending mitigation strategies for data quality, master/reference data, performance, and historization.
• Support data engineers with model-driven implementation guidance and validate that physical implementations align with approved designs.
• Contribute reusable templates, reference models, and design patterns to accelerate delivery and standardize outputs.
• Collaborate with governance teams to ensure metadata completeness, catalog registration, and data quality checks are embedded in delivery processes.

Required Experience and Qualifications

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in data modeling and architecture. The position requires a strong understanding of enterprise data standards, data governance principles, and the ability to translate complex business requirements into robust data solutions. Experience in providing technical leadership within project teams is essential.

Ma'aden High Performance 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.

Work Location and Type

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh. The successful candidate will join a team dedicated to advancing Ma'aden's data capabilities.