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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is recognized as one of the world's fastest-growing mining companies 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.

Role Overview

Ma'aden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Platform Architect OT & Control Platform II to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role focuses on contributing to enterprise architecture direction, ensuring alignment, enabling cross-domain integration, and partnering with various technical teams to support solution design and governance within the Operational Technology (OT) and Control Platform domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.
• Translate enterprise architecture vision and roadmaps into actionable guidance for domain, platform, and solution architects.
• Ensure architectural designs across data, AI, OT, and core systems align with defined enterprise standards.
• Participate in architecture reviews led by the Enterprise Architecture Director or Architecture Review Board.
• Identify risks related to fragmentation, duplication, or unmanaged technical debt and escalate where appropriate.
• Apply defined integration patterns and reference architectures across platforms and systems.
• Support end-to-end interoperability across IT, OT, data, and digital environments.
• Collaborate with integration, data, and platform teams to ensure scalable and reusable solutions.
• Work closely with Domain Architects, Platform Architects, and engineering teams to support solution design.
• Act as a point of coordination between delivery teams and enterprise architecture governance.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, including diagrams, standards, and design guidelines.
• Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and constraints to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Experience

Candidates for this position should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant professional experience in platform architecture, particularly within OT & Control environments.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Ma'aden's operations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Career Contribution

This role offers an opportunity to contribute significantly to the architectural foundation and strategic development of a leading mining and metals company, influencing critical operational technology and control platforms.