Lead Specialist Technical Solutions

About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Solutions to join their team in Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is critical for enabling the successful delivery of technology and innovation initiatives by translating business needs into scalable, integrated, and deployable technical solutions. The Lead Specialist ensures that technology investments achieve measurable business outcomes while aligning with enterprise architecture, operational requirements, and long-term strategic objectives.

Acting as a key technical authority, 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 mining, processing, and enterprise operations.

Key Responsibilities

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

Success Metrics

• Technical solutions are approved, implemented, and consistently aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Solutions demonstrate strong reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and operational readiness.
• Technical risks, integration challenges, and dependencies are identified and resolved effectively.
• Delivery teams achieve successful implementation outcomes with minimal rework and strong architectural compliance.
• Stakeholders report high levels of satisfaction with solution quality, business alignment, and value delivery.
• Reusable technical patterns improve delivery speed, consistency, and long-term sustainability.

Qualifications and Experience

• 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.
• 5–10 years of experience in technical solution design, digital delivery, engineering, applications, analytics, data, or related technology environments.
• Proven experience leading solution design activities and guiding multidisciplinary delivery teams through implementation.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into integrated and scalable technical solutions.
• Experience working across architecture, OT, IT, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, and enterprise application environments.