Principal Specialist Data Modeling & Arch Enterprise

About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is a prominent multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company plays a role in developing the mining industry as a key economic pillar for Saudi Arabia, focusing on building an integrated mining value chain.

Role Overview

The Principal Specialist, Data Modeling & Arch Enterprise, leads the design, modeling, and evolution of enterprise data architecture. This full-time role, based in Riyadh, ensures that data products, curated layers, and integration patterns are standardized, scalable, high-quality, and governed. The specialist defines how operational and corporate data are modeled, aligned, and transformed to support analytics, reporting, AI enablement, and trusted consumption across business domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with enterprise business domains and data architecture principles.
• Define canonical models, conformed dimensions, master/reference data structures, and reusable modeling patterns for cross-domain consistency.
• Design data product models and curated layer schemas supporting enterprise reporting, analytics, AI use cases, and downstream integrations.
• Establish enterprise modeling standards, naming conventions, guidelines, reusable templates, and quality expectations for delivery teams.
• Partner with data governance teams to align business glossary definitions, stewardship ownership, metadata, lineage, and critical data elements.
• Lead the creation and optimization of data product schemas, curated layers, semantic structures, and consumption-ready models.
• Define modeling approaches for various data platform requirements, including relational, non-relational, time-series, streaming, lakehouse, warehouse, and analytical platforms.
• Define integration patterns to ensure consistent transformation logic, metadata, lineage, and data quality across source-to-consumption pipelines.
• Act as a senior technical authority for data modeling and architecture decisions across enterprise data initiatives.
• Mentor data modelers, data engineers, analysts, and delivery teams on modeling standards, patterns, review practices, and quality expectations.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in data modeling and enterprise data architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to lead the design and evolution of complex data architectures.
• Experience in defining and implementing data governance principles within data models.
• Proficiency in various data modeling techniques and platforms.

Success Factors

Success in this role is measured by the standardization, scalability, and reusability of enterprise data models, alignment with business domains, and improved semantic consistency across domains through canonical models and naming standards. It also includes the effective support of trusted reporting, analytics, and AI enablement via curated layers and data product schemas, alongside the embedding of metadata, lineage, data quality, stewardship, and governance into modeling and integration patterns. Providing strong modeling assurance and practical design guidance to delivery teams is also a key indicator of success.

Work Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.