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About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Senior Specialist Data Base & Data Mart to join its team in Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is central to establishing trusted, scalable, and high-performance data foundations that support critical analytics, reporting, AI initiatives, and business decision-making across the organization.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Senior Specialist plays a crucial role in ensuring that enterprise data assets are structured, governed, and optimized to deliver reliable insights. This position directly contributes to improving operational and strategic outcomes by strengthening Maaden’s Data & AI ecosystem. The role involves translating complex business and analytical requirements into robust database and data mart solutions, enhancing data accessibility, quality, performance, and governance while upholding enterprise standards. By providing expertise in data architecture, database optimization, and lifecycle management, this position enables data-driven transformation initiatives and ensures that enterprise data platforms remain secure, resilient, and aligned with long-term business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver scalable and high-performing database and data mart solutions supporting enterprise analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.
• Translate business and analytical requirements into logical and physical data models aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Establish reusable design patterns to improve consistency, maintainability, and long-term scalability of data solutions.
• Enable reliable delivery of enterprise data through robust ETL/ELT processes, transformation logic, and data integration practices.
• Ensure solutions are effectively deployed, tested, and transitioned into production, maintaining sustainability.
• Optimize database and data mart performance through tuning, workload analysis, indexing, and capacity management.
• Strengthen operational resilience via effective monitoring, issue resolution, recovery planning, and preventive improvements.
• Embed data quality, lineage, metadata, ownership, retention, and governance requirements within enterprise data solutions.
• Ensure data assets remain secure, auditable, and compliant with corporate policies and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with engineering, analytics, governance, architecture, cybersecurity, and business teams to deliver prioritized data capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance to improve delivery decisions, solution quality, and stakeholder confidence.
• Drive the adoption of modern database, cloud, automation, and observability practices to enhance value and efficiency.
• Strengthen engineering capability through standards, reusable assets, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

Expected Contributions and Outcomes

A successful Senior Specialist will ensure enterprise databases and data marts consistently deliver reliable, accurate, and timely data for analytics and business reporting. This includes improving data performance, availability, and scalability through proactive optimization and engineering best practices. The role is expected to embed data governance requirements, including lineage, metadata, ownership, and quality controls, across all solutions. Effective resolution of production incidents and performance issues with reduced recurrence is a key outcome, fostering stakeholder confidence in the quality and reliability of enterprise data assets. Furthermore, the adoption of modern data engineering practices will improve delivery efficiency, maintainability, and long-term platform sustainability.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in data architecture, database optimization, and lifecycle management. The position requires a strong background in translating complex business and analytical requirements into robust database and data mart solutions, alongside expertise in data integration practices and performance tuning.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Saudi Arabia, operating within a dynamic environment focused on data-driven transformation initiatives. The role involves collaboration with various technical and business teams to ensure enterprise data platforms remain secure, resilient, and aligned with long-term business objectives.