Lead Data Engineer: ETL, Quality & Governance

Maaden; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Maaden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Engineering and ETL II to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines that transform raw data into high-quality information assets. This role ensures governance, operational resilience, and performance standards to support business intelligence and analytics.

The position requires technical leadership to improve engineering consistency and platform sustainability while collaborating with governance, modelers, and stakeholders to enable data-driven

Qualifications

• 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.
• Optimize pipeline efficiency, scalability, and operational performance through continuous tuning and workload optimization.
• Improve production stability through monitoring, alerting, incident management, and proactive risk mitigation.

Skills

ETL/ELT Engineering

Data Pipeline Development

Data Transformation

Data Quality Management

Metadata & Data Lineage

Cloud Data Platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related

Job description

Maaden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Engineering and ETL II to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines that transform raw data into high-quality information assets. This role ensures governance, operational resilience, and performance standards to support business intelligence and analytics.

The position requires technical leadership to improve engineering consistency and platform sustainability while collaborating with governance, modelers, and stakeholders to enable data-driven