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About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Manager, Data & AI Platforms to oversee and govern a portfolio of data domains and their associated data products. This role ensures that individual data domains operate within a consistent enterprise framework for data products, governance, quality, and value realization. The Manager will act as the portfolio-level authority, aligning domain priorities with enterprise strategy, resolving cross-domain conflicts, and ensuring that data products are delivered as reusable, governed assets rather than siloed solutions. This position is responsible for the cohesive operation of data domains, the prioritization and standardization of data products, and ensuring that collective domain outputs effectively support enterprise reporting, operations, controls, and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight across multiple data domains, each managed by a designated domain owner.
• Ensure domain owners consistently apply established principles for data ownership, stewardship, modeling, quality, and governance.
• Balance demand across data domains by prioritizing data products based on enterprise value, regulatory requirements, and readiness.
• Ensure that data products developed within domains integrate seamlessly with enterprise platforms and downstream consumers.
• Serve as the primary business-facing interface for enterprise data domains, translating strategic needs into coordinated domain roadmaps.
• Enable domain owners to focus on execution by proactively removing blockers, resolving dependencies, and clarifying priorities.
• Ensure that essential lifecycle artifacts, including ownership, definitions, quality expectations, and refresh service level agreements (SLAs), are consistently produced across all domains.
• Lead and develop domain owners, ensuring clear delineation of role boundaries between domain ownership and enterprise oversight.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, or a related field.
• An MBA or Master's degree, or equivalent professional experience, is considered an advantage.
• A minimum of 12 years of experience in data, analytics, or enterprise information management.
• Proven experience leading multiple data domains or portfolios, rather than focusing solely on a single domain.
• Demonstrated ability to manage senior specialists and effectively influence cross-functional stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Proficiency in portfolio-level data domain and product management.
• Expertise in enterprise data governance and operating models.
• Skilled in cross-domain KPI and semantic alignment.
• Strong stakeholder management capabilities at both senior business and technical levels.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into coordinated execution plans across multiple domain owners.

Work Location and Type

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.