Director, Technology Development

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Director, Technology Development to turn technology ambition into measurable business value across a broad portfolio of domains. You will lead enterprise priorities with senior specialists, directing investment and execution toward opportunities that improve safety, productivity and reliability.

The role ensures technologies move from discovery into scaled deployment, establishes governance and performance measures, and aligns technology with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mining or related field).
• 20+ years in engineering, technology deployment, asset-intensive environments.
• Experience leading senior specialists or multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience governing enterprise portfolios and progressing solutions to deployment.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute an integrated Technology Development portfolio aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Direct priority technologies through discovery, deployment and scale with clear ownership.
• Establish value hypotheses, baselines and performance measures for operational outcomes.
• Align priorities across technology domains to reduce fragmentation and improve synergies.
• Lead Chief Specialists and senior SMEs, building a high-performance culture.
• Provide senior leadership with portfolio performance insights and trade-offs.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Mining domain knowledge

Technology strategy

Stakeholder management

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

MBA or MSc in related field

Job description

Job Title: Director, Technology Development

Reporting To: VP, Technology Enablement

Business Unit / Function: Technology & Innovation

Department: Technology Enablement

Grade: M13W

Why This Role Matters

The Director, Technology Development turns Ma’aden’s technology ambition into measurable business value. The role provides enterprise leadership across a diverse portfolio of technology domains, connecting business priorities with specialist expertise and directing investment and execution toward the opportunities with the greatest potential to improve safety, productivity, reliability, growth and operational performance.

The role creates the conditions for technologies to move effectively from discovery and validation into scaled operational deployment. It integrates the work of Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, establishes clear portfolio priorities and governance, and ensures technology solutions are operationally ready, adopted and sustained.

Through disciplined prioritization, executive decision-making and strong technical leadership, the role strengthens Ma’aden’s ability to deploy technology at scale while building the specialist capability required for future growth and operational excellence.

What You Will Deliver

Technology Strategy & Portfolio Direction

• Shape and execute an integrated Technology Development portfolio that translates enterprise priorities into focused domain strategies, roadmaps and investments.
• Prioritize opportunities against business value, strategic relevance, deployment readiness, safety, risk and scalability, balancing near-term performance with longer-term capability.
• Integrate priorities across technology domains to reduce fragmentation, strengthen synergies and focus specialist capacity on Ma’aden’s highest-value challenges.

Deployment & Value Realization

• Direct the progression of priority technologies from discovery and validation through deployment, adoption and scale, with clear outcomes, ownership and decision points.
• Establish measurable value hypotheses, baselines and performance measures that connect technology deployment to operational and business outcomes.
• Ensure deployed solutions are embedded into operational workflows and tracked through sustained adoption and value realization.

Portfolio Governance & Execution

• Establish a disciplined portfolio operating model covering investment decisions, stage gates, resource allocation, risk, technical assurance and executive performance reviews.
• Strengthen execution by ensuring priority initiatives have robust business cases, accountable ownership, realistic deployment plans and operational sponsorship.
• Resolve critical dependencies and competing priorities across functions, assets and technology domains, redirecting resources where needed to protect delivery and value.

Technical & People Leadership

• Lead and develop Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, preserving their technical authority while aligning domain priorities and performance to common enterprise outcomes.
• Build a high-performance culture founded on safety, technical rigor, accountability, collaboration, innovation, knowledge transfer and delivery discipline.
• Strengthen succession and critical technology capability through targeted development, external expertise and strategic partnerships.

Enterprise Alignment & Influence

• Align business units, Operations, Engineering, Technology & Innovation and corporate stakeholders around technology priorities, investment choices and deployment roadmaps.
• Provide senior leadership with clear insight into portfolio performance, value, risks and investment trade-offs to strengthen decision-making.
• Shape external technology partnerships that accelerate access to relevant expertise, solutions and capabilities while protecting Ma’aden’s strategic and operational interests.

What Success Looks Like

• Technology investments are concentrated on clearly prioritized opportunities with defined business outcomes, sponsorship and measurable value.
• Priority technologies progress efficiently from discovery and validation into operational deployment, adoption and scale.
• Deployed technologies deliver sustained improvements in targeted safety, productivity, reliability, cost, growth or operational performance measures.
• Portfolio governance enables timely investment, continuation, scaling or stop decisions based on evidence, readiness, risk and realized value.
• Chief Specialists and senior SMEs operate as aligned enterprise technical authorities with strong succession, knowledge transfer and capability development.
• Business and technology stakeholders align around integrated roadmaps, clear accountabilities and transparent portfolio performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Mining, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, Mechatronics, Automation, Systems Engineering or a related discipline.

Experience

• 20+ years of progressive experience across engineering, technology deployment, operations, major projects or other relevant asset-intensive environments.
• Significant experience in mining, processing, manufacturing, infrastructure, energy or heavy industry, with exposure to operational performance, safety and technology-enabled transformation.
• Demonstrated experience leading senior specialists or multidisciplinary technical teams and delivering through complex matrix organizations.
• Proven experience developing technology strategies, governing enterprise portfolios and progressing solutions from discovery and validation through scaled operational deployment and sustained value realization.

Skills That Matter

• Technology strategy, maturity assessment and scaled deployment
• Enterprise portfolio prioritization and investment governance
• Business value and benefits realization
• Mining, processing and industrial technology
• Technology assurance, safety and operational risk
• Program, portfolio and stage-gate governance
• Financial and commercial decision-making
• Executive stakeholder and partnership management
• Leadership of senior technical experts
• Change leadership, capability building and knowledge transfer