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About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Principal Specialist, BU Data Domain, to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role serves as the accountable owner of a Business Unit's data domain, ensuring that data is trusted, governed, consistent, and aligned with both operational requirements and enterprise standards. The position is crucial for enabling accurate decision-making, meaningful performance measurement, and scalable analytics by establishing clear ownership of domain data, KPIs, and business definitions.

The Principal Specialist will strengthen governance, data quality, and semantic consistency across the domain, ensuring that business-critical data products can be confidently used across reporting, operational management, analytics, and AI-driven initiatives. This role acts as a bridge between business operations and enterprise data capabilities, translating business needs into structured and reusable data assets, while also driving enterprise alignment by representing the Business Unit in governance forums.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish clear ownership and accountability for domain data, business definitions, and performance metrics.
• Strengthen the quality, consistency, and fitness-for-purpose of domain data across business processes and systems.
• Ensure domain data accurately reflects operational realities, business requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Enable the development of trusted and reusable data products that support operational excellence, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Translate Business Unit requirements into scalable data solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Improve access to reliable data that supports decision-making, performance management, and business planning.
• Drive adoption of enterprise data governance standards while ensuring relevance to Business Unit needs.
• Align domain practices with enterprise architecture, data policies, and cross-domain governance requirements.
• Strengthen consistency of data definitions, KPIs, and reporting frameworks across the organization.
• Serve as the primary data representative for the Business Unit on strategic data matters.
• Influence business and technical stakeholders to achieve alignment on data priorities, standards, and outcomes.
• Facilitate data-driven decision-making through clear communication and governance leadership.
• Improve data quality performance through proactive monitoring, issue resolution, and stewardship practices.
• Lead initiatives that enhance data reliability, usability, and business confidence.
• Drive continuous improvement of domain governance, data management practices, and value realization.

Expected Outcomes

Success in this role is demonstrated by domain data that is trusted, accurate, and consistently used across reporting, analytics, and operational processes. Business definitions, KPIs, and data standards will be clearly defined and adopted by stakeholders, with data quality issues proactively managed and resolved, leading to measurable improvements in data reliability. The Principal Specialist will ensure that domain data products effectively support business objectives, analytics requirements, and AI initiatives, while Business Unit priorities are effectively represented within enterprise governance and decision-making forums, maintaining alignment between enterprise and Business Unit standards without compromising operational requirements.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related discipline.
• A Master's degree or equivalent domain expertise is considered advantageous.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience within a Business Unit domain, data management, analytics, or enterprise information management environments.
• Proven experience owning domain definitions, KPI frameworks, and data quality outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience working across business and technology functions to establish governance and data management practices.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to contribute to Maaden's data and digital strategy.