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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is a leading 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 by building a world-class and fully integrated mining value chain.

Role Overview

Ma'aden is seeking a Principal Specialist, Corporate Functions Data Domain to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable data engineering solutions across both Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) environments. The specialist will ensure that data products, enterprise data layers, pipelines, and integration flows are consistent, governed, high-performing, and aligned with enterprise architecture. This position operates as a senior technical specialist, providing guidance across multidisciplinary engineering teams and ensuring cohesive OT–IT data ingestion, transformation, and consumption patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines across OT and IT data sources.
• Implement scalable ELT/ETL workflows supporting enterprise analytics, data products, AI/ML, and operational use cases.
• Engineer unified data flows across remote mining sites, disconnected OT environments, manufacturing systems, edge computing devices, and IT cloud platforms.
• Embed metadata capture, lineage tracking, and quality checks into data pipelines to support data governance and cataloging requirements.
• Translate architectural models into physical engineering implementations.
• Partner with business domains to understand data requirements and ensure delivered pipelines meet operational and analytical needs.
• Address OT-specific latency, connectivity, protocol variability, and historian/SCADA integration considerations in pipeline designs.

Required Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in data engineering. The position requires a strong technical background in designing and implementing robust data solutions across complex IT and OT landscapes.

Ma'aden High-Performance Competencies

• Execution Excellence: Delivers high-quality pipelines and engineering solutions with strong reliability.
• Collaboration & Influence: Works effectively across OT, IT, and business domains.
• Problem Solving: Tackles complex integration challenges across industrial and corporate environments.
• Adaptability & Innovation: Applies modern engineering techniques and identifies improvements in architecture/tooling.
• Technical Leadership: Guides engineering teams and junior specialists.

Location and Work Type

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