Principal Specialist, Engineering and ETL (OT)
MaadenRiyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
Posted March 23, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Maaden is Saudi Arabia's leading mining and metals company, and one of the world's largest by market capitalization. With a diverse portfolio including gold, phosphate, bauxite, copper, and other minerals, Maaden partners with global leaders like Alcoa and Barrick to develop large-scale, cost-competitive assets. The company plays a pivotal role in Saudi Vision 2030, aiming to diversify the economy beyond oil and petrochemicals, while offering employees competitive compensation, career development, and a commitment to sustainability.
Job Description
The Principal Specialist, Engineering and ETL (OT) provides enterprise leadership for OT data engineering, enabling reliable ingestion, transformation, and availability of operational data for analytics, operations, and performance management.
Requirements
- Define OT data engineering and ETL standards, patterns, and reference architectures covering batch, streaming, and near-real-time ingestion needs.
- Establish ingestion patterns for historians and OT source systems, including normalization, unit standardization, quality flags, and tag mapping processes.
- Design and assure robust pipeline reliability (idempotency, backfill, late-arriving data handling, reconciliation, alerting) appropriate for OT contexts.
- Oversee and guide OT data transformation logic to produce curated OT data products aligned to enterprise models and governance requirements.
- Provide architectural oversight for site onboarding, handling variability across plants and ensuring consistent delivery standards across implementations.
- Review and assure vendor and internal deliverables; provide technical direction and quality gates for complex OT engineering initiatives.
- Drive continuous improvement through performance tuning, cost optimization, observability, and operational resilience improvements for OT workloads.
