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About Ma'aden

Established in 1997, Ma'aden is a rapidly growing mining company and the largest 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, building a world-class, integrated mining value chain.

The Role of Principal Specialist, Data Modeling & Architecture

Ma'aden is seeking a Principal Specialist, Data Modeling & Architecture to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position is central to leading the design, modeling, and evolution of the enterprise data architecture. The role ensures that data products, curated layers, and integration patterns are standardized, scalable, high-quality, and governed across the organization. It defines how diverse operational and corporate data is modeled, aligned, and transformed to support analytics, enterprise reporting, and integration with downstream systems.

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.

Technical Leadership and Guidance

As a senior technical authority, this position is responsible for defining modeling standards and shaping architecture decisions. The role involves guiding multidisciplinary teams to achieve semantic consistency and reusability across various domains, while simultaneously enabling performance, interoperability, and trusted data consumption.

Required Experience

Candidates for this position must possess over 10 years of relevant experience in data modeling and architecture. The role requires a strong background in leading complex data initiatives and guiding technical teams.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, offering an opportunity to contribute to the growth of Ma'aden and the development of Saudi Arabia's mining industry.