Lead OT Platform Architect & Controls Integration

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Lead Specialist, Platform Architect OT & Control Platform II to drive architecture across OT and control platforms in complex mining environments. You will translate enterprise architecture standards into actionable platform guidance, ensuring interoperability, security, and alignment with EA direction.

Responsibilities include developing EA principles, reference architectures, governance reviews, and cross-domain integration patterns across IT, OT,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Industrial Systems, Automation, Control Systems, or a related discipline; Master’s Degree is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture principles, platform standards, and reference architectures for OT and control platforms.
• Translate enterprise architecture vision and roadmaps into actionable guidance for domain, platform, and solution architecture teams.
• Support alignment of architectural designs across OT, data, AI, integration, cloud, and core systems with enterprise standards.
• Provide practical architecture guidance that balances enterprise consistency with operational technology realities.
• Participate in architecture reviews and support design assurance for OT, control platform, and cross-domain technology solutions.
• Identify risks related to fragmentation, duplication, unmanaged technical debt, and non-compliance with architecture standards.
• Support governance decisions by documenting design options, trade-offs, constraints, risks, and recommended architecture patterns.
• Escalate architecture risks and deviations where platform designs may impact scalability, resilience, security, or interoperability.
• Apply defined integration patterns and reference architectures across OT, control platforms, data platforms, AI solutions, and enterprise systems.
• Support end-to-end interoperability across IT, OT, data, digital, and industrial control environments.
• Collaborate with integration, data, platform, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and engineering teams to enable scalable and reusable solutions.
• Promote reusable architecture patterns that reduce duplication and improve consistency across platforms and sites.
• Work closely with domain architects, platform architects, solution architects, engineering teams, and delivery teams to support solution design.
• Act as a coordination point between delivery teams and enterprise architecture governance for OT and control platform matters.
• Support platform architecture decisions by clarifying requirements, dependencies, operational constraints, and implementation considerations.
• Ensure solution designs are practical, technically coherent, and aligned with architecture standards and operating environment needs.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, diagrams, reference patterns, standards, and design guidelines for OT and control platforms.
• Document architectural decisions, dependencies, risks, constraints, and reusable design patterns for platform and solution teams.
• Communicate architectural guidance, trade-offs, and constraints to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and practical manner.
• Support architecture knowledge sharing to improve consistency, adoption, and design quality across delivery teams.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

OT & control platform architecture

Integration patterns

Interoperability

Documentation

Cross-domain collaboration

Architecture governance

Risk & technical debt identification

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Industrial Systems, Automation, Control Systems, or related; Master’s preferred

Job description

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company seeks a Lead Specialist, Platform Architect OT & Control Platform II to drive architecture across OT and control platforms in complex mining environments. You will translate enterprise architecture standards into actionable platform guidance, ensuring interoperability, security, and alignment with EA direction.

Responsibilities include developing EA principles, reference architectures, governance reviews, and cross-domain integration patterns across IT, OT,