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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is a rapidly growing global mining company and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company leads 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 role is based in Riyadh.

Role Summary: Principal Specialist, Data Modeling & Architecture

The Principal Specialist, Data Modeling & Architecture leads the design, modeling, and evolution of the enterprise data architecture. This ensures data products, curated layers, and integration patterns are standardized, scalable, high-quality, and governed. The role defines how diverse operational and corporate data is modeled, aligned, and transformed to support analytics, enterprise reporting, and integration with downstream systems. This is a senior technical authority position responsible for defining modeling standards, shaping architecture decisions, and guiding multidisciplinary teams to achieve semantic consistency and reusability across domains, while enabling performance, interoperability, and trusted consumption.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with business domains, utilizing enterprise standards and modeling principles.
• Define canonical models, conformed dimensions, and reference data structures to enable consistent cross-domain reporting and analytics.
• Lead the creation and optimization of data product models and curated layer schemas, including time-variant structures and auditability, to support enterprise use cases.
• Ensure models consider platform and technology requirements (relational, non-relational, time-series, streaming) and are optimized for performance and maintainability.
• Establish integration patterns that ensure consistent transformation logic, metadata, lineage, and data quality across source-to-consumption pipelines.
• Define and maintain enterprise modeling standards, guidelines, naming conventions, and reusable templates to uplift modeling maturity across delivery teams.
• Review and approve modeling deliverables from internal teams and external vendors, providing design authority and quality assurance for key initiatives.
• Partner with governance to ensure business glossary alignment and stewardship ownership for critical entities and attributes.
• Mentor modelers, engineers, and analysts, leading model reviews and coaching to ensure consistent application of standards.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this full-time role must possess over 10 years of relevant experience in data modeling and architecture. The position requires a senior technical authority capable of defining modeling standards, shaping architecture decisions, and guiding multidisciplinary teams.

Required Competencies

Candidates should demonstrate Ma'aden High-Performance Competencies, which include:

• Strategic Thinking & Decision Making: Anticipates implications and guides enterprise direction.
• Collaboration & Influencing: Aligns diverse stakeholders without direct authority.
• Execution Excellence: Sets high standards and ensures measurable outcomes.
• Innovation & Adaptability: Applies modern practices and evolves standards pragmatically.
• Change Leadership: Drives adoption, governance, and continuous improvement.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh. The role involves guiding multidisciplinary teams and collaborating with various stakeholders to achieve semantic consistency and reusability across domains, while enabling performance, interoperability, and trusted data consumption.