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About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is recognized as one of the fastest-growing mining companies globally and holds the position of the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is actively leading the development of the mining industry, aiming to establish it as the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy through the creation of a world-class, integrated mining value chain.

Role Overview: Principal Specialist, Data Domain

Ma'aden is seeking a Principal Specialist, Exploration & Project Development & Engineering Data Domain to join the team in Riyadh. This full-time position involves leading the design, modeling, and evolution of Ma'aden’s enterprise data architecture across both Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) environments. The role ensures that data products, enterprise data layers, and integration patterns are standardized, scalable, high-quality, and governed. As a senior technical authority, this specialist will provide expert guidance on how diverse OT and IT data flows should be modeled, aligned, and transformed to support analytics, operations, AI/ML, and enterprise systems, defining modeling standards and shaping architecture decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models in alignment with business domains and Ma'aden’s enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Lead the creation and optimization of data product models, enterprise layer schemas, and domain-driven structures for both OT and IT sources.
• Ensure data models account for technology-specific requirements, including relational, non-relational, time-series, and streaming architectures.
• Architect unified modeling approaches to address the complexities of OT environments, such as remote, disconnected, and heterogeneous mining/manufacturing sites, and their unique data ingestion, latency, and operational constraints.
• Establish integration patterns to ensure consistent transformation logic, metadata, lineage, and data quality across OT–IT boundaries.
• Define and maintain enterprise modeling standards, guidelines, and reusable templates to ensure organizational consistency.
• Review and approve modeling deliverables from both internal teams and external vendors.
• Mentor data modelers, engineers, and analysts to enhance enterprise modeling maturity.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess a minimum of ten years of relevant experience in enterprise data architecture, data modeling, and data integration, particularly within complex OT and IT environments. The position requires a strong technical background in defining modeling standards, shaping architectural decisions, and guiding multidisciplinary teams to ensure data cohesion, performance, and semantic consistency across an organization.

Work Location

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Information

Interested candidates are invited to apply for this role to contribute to Ma'aden's strategic objectives in the mining industry.