About
The company, established in 1997, is one of the fastest-growing mining companies in the world and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. We are leading the development of the mining industry to become the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building a world-class, unique, and fully integrated mining value chain. This role offers a chance to contribute to our ambitious growth and play a key part in shaping the future of mining in the Kingdom.
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Job Purpose
Lead the design, modeling, and evolution of the company’s enterprise data architecture across both OT and IT environments. The role ensures that data products, enterprise data layers, and integration patterns are standardized, scalable, high-quality, and governed. It provides 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. This position is a senior technical authority responsible for defining modeling standards, shaping architecture decisions, and guiding multidisciplinary teams to ensure cohesion, performance, and semantic consistency across the organization.
Key Accountabilities
- Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with business domains, following enterprise standards and modeling principles defined in the company’s 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 models consider technology-specific requirements, including relational, non-relational, time-series, and streaming architectures.
- Architect unified modeling approaches that address the complexities of OT environments such as remote, disconnected, and heterogeneous mining/manufacturing sites.
- Establish integration patterns ensuring consistent transformation logic, metadata, lineage, and data quality across OT–IT boundaries.
- Define and maintain enterprise modeling standards, guidelines, and reusable templates to ensure consistency across the organization.
- Review and approve modeling deliverables from internal teams and external vendors.
- Mentor data modelers, engineers, and analysts to uplift enterprise modeling maturity.
Minimum Qualification, Experience, and Competencies
Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Eng, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
- Master’s degree preferred (Data Architecture, Software Engineering, or AI/Analytics).
Minimum Experience
- 10–15 years of experience in data modeling, data architecture, or enterprise information architecture.
- Demonstrated experience designing models and architectures across both OT and IT landscapes.
- Strong experience with cloud-native platforms (Azure preferred), modern data platforms, metadata tools (e.g., Informatica), and modeling standards/frameworks.
Skills
- Mastery of conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
- Expertise in data architecture frameworks, enterprise modeling principles, and metadata management.
- Understanding of OT systems (SCADA, DCS, historians, sensors) and IT data platforms.
- Ability to design data flows from edge to cloud, including ingestion, storage, curation, and consumption layers.
- Knowledge of modeling tools (Erwin, ER/Studio, Sparx EA, etc.) and lineage/governance tooling.
Benefits
- Career Growth
- Competitive Salaries
- Comprehensive Package
- Inclusive Work Environment
- Work-Life Balance
- Employee wellness
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Job ID
6876
Job Type
Full time
