Lead Data Engineer - ETL, Quality & Governance

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Lead Specialist, Engineering and ETL II to design and optimize scalable data pipelines, ensuring high-quality, governed data for analytics and decision-making across the enterprise.

You will provide technical leadership, implement data quality controls, and collaborate with governance, modelers, and platform teams to deliver reliable data products and measurable improvements in performance and cost.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 7-10 years of relevant experience in data engineering, ETL/ELT development, and modern data platforms.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale production data pipelines with strong reliability and quality controls.
• Experience implementing data quality, governance, and operational monitoring practices.
• Experience providing technical leadership and collaborating across engineering, governance, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that provide reliable, governed, and high-quality data for analytics and reporting.
• Enable efficient ingestion, transformation, and delivery of data products aligned with approved data models and architecture standards.
• Maintain engineering practices that ensure consistency, reusability, and long-term maintainability of data solutions.
• Strengthen trust in enterprise data through robust validation, reconciliation, testing, and quality control mechanisms.
• Ensure metadata, lineage, and discoverability requirements are embedded across all data assets and pipelines.
• Enable governed access to curated datasets that support enterprise-wide data consumption.
• Partner with data modelers, governance teams, platform specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver integrated data solutions.
• Ensure engineering outputs align with enterprise data definitions, governance requirements, and business needs.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance cost efficiency, operability, and solution effectiveness.

Skills

ETL/ELT Engineering

Data Pipeline Development

Data Transformation

Data Quality Management

Metadata & Data Lineage

Cloud Data Platform Technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Lead Specialist, Engineering and ETL II to design and optimize scalable data pipelines, ensuring high-quality, governed data for analytics and decision-making across the enterprise.

You will provide technical leadership, implement data quality controls, and collaborate with governance, modelers, and platform teams to deliver reliable data products and measurable improvements in performance and cost.