Lead Specialist Technical Solutions

About Maaden and the Role

Maaden, a leading mining company in Saudi Arabia, is seeking a Lead Specialist Technical Solutions for a full-time position. This role is central to the successful delivery of technology and innovation initiatives by transforming business needs into scalable, integrated, and deployable technical solutions. The Lead Specialist ensures that technology investments deliver measurable business outcomes while remaining aligned with enterprise architecture, operational requirements, and long-term strategic objectives.

Acting as a key technical authority across complex initiatives, this role bridges business priorities, domain requirements, and enterprise technology capabilities. It ensures solutions are architecturally sound, operationally viable, secure, and capable of supporting sustainable growth across Maaden's mining, processing, and enterprise operations. Through technical leadership, stakeholder alignment, and delivery assurance, the role strengthens solution quality, accelerates implementation effectiveness, and promotes the adoption of reusable technology patterns.

Key Responsibilities

The Lead Specialist Technical Solutions will be responsible for a range of critical activities, including:

• Developing end-to-end technical solutions that align business objectives, operational requirements, and enterprise technology standards.
• Defining scalable architectures, integration patterns, data flows, interfaces, deployment approaches, and non-functional requirements.
• Ensuring technical solutions remain secure, supportable, resilient, and adaptable to future business needs.
• Guiding multidisciplinary delivery teams through implementation, testing, deployment, and transition into operations.
• Strengthening delivery quality through technical oversight, design assurance, and proactive resolution of complex technical challenges.
• Translating business priorities into practical and achievable technical solutions that support strategic and operational objectives.
• Shaping solution scope, success measures, value hypotheses, and implementation roadmaps with business and technology stakeholders.
• Enabling seamless integration across data, applications, OT, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and enterprise platforms.
• Resolving technical dependencies, design risks, and implementation constraints that may impact solution success.
• Maintaining architectural consistency through design reviews, technical governance, and documented decision-making.
• Developing reusable solution patterns, standards, templates, and best practices that improve delivery efficiency and consistency.
• Evaluating emerging technologies and recommending adoption opportunities based on business value, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strengthening organizational capability through coaching, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.

Indicators of Success

Success in this role will be demonstrated by:

• Technical solutions being approved, implemented, and consistently aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Solutions demonstrating strong reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and operational readiness.
• Effective identification and resolution of technical risks, integration challenges, and dependencies.
• Delivery teams achieving successful implementation outcomes with minimal rework and strong architectural compliance.
• High levels of stakeholder satisfaction with solution quality, business alignment, and value delivery.
• Reusable technical patterns improving delivery speed, consistency, and long-term sustainability.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this position should possess the following qualifications and experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• A Master’s degree in a relevant technical or management discipline is preferred.
• Relevant solution architecture, cloud, integration, agile, or delivery certification is advantageous.
• Between 5 to 10 years of relevant professional experience.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Saudi Arabia.

Application Process

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications for consideration.