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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 actively leading the development of the mining industry to establish it as the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy, building a world-class, fully integrated mining value chain. This full-time role is based in Riyadh.

The Opportunity: Manager, Data & AI Platforms

Ma'aden is seeking a Manager, Data & AI Platforms to contribute to its growth and strategic objectives. This role is accountable for governing, coordinating, and enabling a portfolio of data domains and their associated data products. The Manager ensures that domain data owners operate within a consistent enterprise framework for data products, governance, quality, and value realization. This position acts as the portfolio-level authority, aligning domain priorities with enterprise strategy, resolving cross-domain conflicts, and ensuring data products are delivered as reusable, governed assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight across multiple data domains, each managed by a designated domain owner.
• Ensure domain owners consistently apply principles for data ownership, stewardship, modeling, quality, and governance.
• Balance demand across domains by prioritizing data products based on enterprise value, regulatory needs, and readiness.
• Ensure domain data products integrate cleanly with enterprise platforms and downstream consumers.
• Act 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 removing blockers, resolving dependencies, and clarifying priorities.
• Ensure lifecycle artifacts, including ownership, definitions, quality expectations, and refresh SLAs, are consistently produced across domains.
• Lead and develop domain owners, clarifying role boundaries between domain ownership and enterprise oversight.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Experience and Skills

• A minimum of 12 years of experience across data, analytics, or enterprise information management.
• Proven experience leading multiple data domains or portfolios, beyond managing a single domain.
• Demonstrated ability to manage senior specialists and influence cross-functional stakeholders effectively.

Work Location

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