Lead Specialist Engineering and Extract Transform Load Enterprise

About Ma'aden

Ma'aden - Saudi Arabian Mining Company | معادن, established in 1997, is a rapidly expanding multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is instrumental in developing Saudi Arabia's mining industry, aiming to establish it as a key economic pillar through an integrated mining value chain. This full-time role is based in Riyadh.

Role Overview

The Lead Specialist, Engineering and Extract, Transform, Load Enterprise, is responsible for enabling reliable and accessible data across the enterprise. This involves building and optimizing scalable data pipelines to transform raw data into high-quality information assets. The role ensures data products meet governance, operational resilience, and performance standards to support business intelligence, analytics, and decision-making. The position also provides technical leadership to enhance engineering consistency, operational reliability, and long-term platform sustainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that provide reliable, governed, and high-quality data for analytics and reporting.
• Enable efficient ingestion, transformation, and delivery of data products aligned with approved data models and architecture standards.
• Maintain engineering practices that ensure consistency, reusability, and long-term maintainability of data solutions.
• Strengthen trust in enterprise data through robust validation, reconciliation, testing, and quality control mechanisms.
• Ensure metadata, lineage, and discoverability requirements are embedded across all data assets and pipelines.
• Enable governed access to curated datasets that support enterprise-wide data consumption.
• Optimize pipeline efficiency, scalability, and operational performance through continuous tuning and workload optimization.
• Improve production stability through monitoring, alerting, incident management, and proactive risk mitigation.
• Reduce operational disruptions by enhancing reliability, restartability, and recovery capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance that enhances engineering quality, consistency, and delivery excellence.
• Develop reusable components, standards, and engineering playbooks that improve productivity and reduce complexity.
• Influence technical decisions that strengthen enterprise data engineering capabilities.
• Partner with data modelers, governance teams, platform specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver integrated data solutions.
• Ensure engineering outputs align with enterprise data definitions, governance requirements, and business needs.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance cost efficiency, operability, and solution effectiveness.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in engineering and ETL enterprise roles.

Performance Indicators

• Consistent delivery of trusted, accurate, and timely data products via enterprise data pipelines.
• Proactive identification and efficient resolution of data quality issues with clear ownership.
• Continuous optimization of pipeline performance and operational costs without compromising reliability.
• Discoverability and governance of data assets, supported by accurate metadata and lineage.
• Reduction of production incidents through strong engineering practices, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Improvement in delivery speed, quality, and scalability across initiatives through engineering standards and reusable assets.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, offering an opportunity to contribute to the development of Saudi Arabia's mining industry.