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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is a rapidly growing mining company and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is leading the development of the mining industry to become the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building a world-class, fully integrated mining value chain. This full-time position is based in Riyadh.

The Role: Principal Specialist, Corporate Functions Data Domain

The Principal Specialist, Corporate Functions Data Domain, is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable data engineering solutions across both Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) environments. This role ensures that data products, enterprise data layers, pipelines, and integration flows are consistent, governed, high-performing, and aligned with enterprise architecture. Operating as a senior technical specialist, this position provides guidance across multidisciplinary engineering teams, 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 considerations such as latency, connectivity, protocol variability, and historian/SCADA integration in pipeline designs.

Required Experience and Competencies

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following 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 and tooling.
• Technical Leadership: Guides engineering teams and junior specialists.

Work Environment

This role operates within a dynamic environment, requiring close collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams and business domains. The position involves integrating data solutions across diverse OT and IT landscapes, including remote mining sites, manufacturing systems, and cloud platforms.

Application Information

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply to join Ma'aden in contributing to the development of the mining industry.