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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is recognized as one of the world's fastest-growing mining companies and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is instrumental in developing the mining industry, aiming to establish it as the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building a world-class, integrated mining value chain.

The Role of Principal Specialist, Engineering and ETL (OT)

Ma'aden is seeking a Principal Specialist, Engineering and ETL (OT) to provide enterprise leadership in OT data engineering. This full-time position, based in Riyadh, is central to enabling reliable ingestion, transformation, and availability of operational data for analytics, operations, and performance management across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

The Principal Specialist will be responsible for:

• Defining OT data engineering and ETL standards, patterns, and reference architectures covering batch, streaming, and near-real-time ingestion needs.
• Establishing ingestion patterns for historians and OT source systems, including normalization, unit standardization, quality flags, and tag mapping processes.
• Designing and assuring robust pipeline reliability, including idempotency, backfill, late-arriving data handling, reconciliation, and alerting appropriate for OT contexts.
• Ensuring OT pipelines comply with security and segmentation requirements, partnering with OT cyber and platform security teams for governance-by-design.
• Overseeing and guiding OT data transformation logic to produce curated OT data products aligned with enterprise models and governance requirements.
• Providing architectural oversight for site onboarding, handling variability across plants, and ensuring consistent delivery standards across implementations.
• Reviewing and assuring vendor and internal deliverables, providing technical direction and quality gates for complex OT engineering initiatives.
• Driving continuous improvement through performance tuning, cost optimization, observability, and operational resilience improvements for OT workloads.

Required Experience and Expertise

Candidates for this role should possess over 10 years of relevant experience in data engineering, particularly within Operational Technology (OT) environments. The position requires a deep understanding of data ingestion, transformation, and management principles, with a focus on industrial systems and enterprise platforms.

Technical Leadership and Standards

This role involves defining scalable patterns for integrating historians and industrial systems into enterprise platforms. The Principal Specialist will guide teams through complex OT constraints and ensure that operational data products are sustainable and properly governed, maintaining data quality, lineage, and security across all sites.

Work Setting

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role offers an opportunity to contribute to Ma'aden's growth and play a significant part in shaping the future of the mining industry within the Kingdom.