Principal Specialist, Technology Operations Solutions

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM); Riyadh; On-site; SAR 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM) seeks a senior P2P Solution Delivery lead to translate business challenges into scalable P2P design and implementation plans. You will guide delivery teams, resolve integration issues, and ensure alignment with procurement, supplier management, and contract/invoice workflows.

You will coordinate with domain partners and architecture teams to ensure scalable, secure solutions and measurable improvements in P2P performance and compliance across operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Business Information Systems, Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Translate business challenges into clear solution needs and deliver quarterly value milestones.

Skills

Solution architecture

P2P domain knowledge

Requirements capture

Delivery planning

Cross-domain integration

Stakeholder management

Technical direction

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related

Job description

Why This Role Matters

This role owns the solution definition and delivery guidance for Procure-to-Pay technology operations initiatives. It translates business challenges, site-based evidence, and P2P process priorities into scalable solution requirements, value-driven work packages, and implementation guidance that enable reliable procurement, supplier, contract, invoicing, payment, and operational support outcomes.

What You Will Deliver

Manage P2P Solution Delivery

• Capture statements of requirements for P2P initiatives by translating business challenges, pain points, and site-based evidence into clear solution needs.
• Define solution plans, work packages, and quarterly value milestones in alignment with platform architects, solution architects, and domain stakeholders.
• Ensure solution designs support procurement, supplier management, contract lifecycle, invoice processing, approvals, payments, and operational support processes.
• Resolve technical, functional, and integration issues that may impact delivery outcomes, adoption, or business value realization.

Guide Delivery Teams

• Provide technical direction, design clarification, and quality oversight to delivery teams during solution implementation.
• Guide engineers, analysts, digital specialists, data teams, and external delivery partners to ensure the solution design is implemented correctly.
• Validate that implementations meet agreed functional, performance, control, data, integration, and quality expectations.
• Support site-based deployments, stabilization, transition-to-run activities, and ongoing solution management across P2P operations.

Support Domain and TechOps Initiatives

• Work with Domain Integrators and Business Partners to shape initiative scope, value hypotheses, success measures, and delivery priorities.
• Align P2P technology initiatives with agreed KPIs, business value outcomes, control requirements, and transformation priorities.
• Surface technical trade-offs, solution risks, interdependencies, and constraints early to support informed decision-making.
• Ensure solution delivery remains connected to practical P2P outcomes including cycle-time improvement, compliance, user adoption, and service reliability.

Ensure Scalable and Integrated Solution Design

• Ensure P2P solutions are scalable, integrated, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards and architecture principles.
• Coordinate with platform, integration, data, cybersecurity, ERP, analytics, and application teams to resolve cross-domain dependencies.
• Confirm that solutions support master data quality, workflow automation, controls, auditability, reporting, and integration with enterprise platforms.
• Maintain consistency between solution design, operational support requirements, and long-term TechOps manageability.

Provide Quality Oversight and Issue Resolution

• Monitor delivery progress against requirements, value milestones, quality expectations, and operational readiness criteria.
• Troubleshoot current and future-state issues across workflows, integrations, data, platforms, controls, and user adoption areas.
• Drive corrective actions for defects, delivery blockers, solution design gaps, and integration issues impacting P2P outcomes.
• Provide clear status, risks, recommendations, and decision support to the Director, TechOps Delivery, P2P Domain and relevant stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like

• P2P business challenges are translated into clear solution requirements, delivery plans, and value-based work packages.
• Solution designs are scalable, integrated, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture and TechOps standards.
• Delivery teams receive clear technical direction, design clarification, and quality oversight throughout implementation.
• Technical trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and integration issues are surfaced early and resolved effectively.

• Implemented solutions improve P2P performance, user experience, control, compliance, service reliability, and measurable business value.

  Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Business Information Systems, Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, or a related discipline.

Experience

• Minimum 5–10 years of experience in technical, analytics, technology delivery, solution design, digital transformation, or enterprise application delivery roles.
• Experience owning solution design, guiding delivery teams, resolving integration issues, and translating business needs into technical solutions.
• Exposure to P2P, procurement, supply chain, ERP, workflow automation, data, analytics, or technology operations environments is preferred.

Skills That Matter

• Technical solution architecture and solution design ownership
• P2P domain understanding across procurement, supplier, contract, invoice, approval, and payment processes
• Business requirements capture, problem structuring, value hypothesis development, and delivery planning
• Quality-focused delivery guidance, implementation oversight, testing support, and operational readiness
• Systems thinking, cross-domain integration, workflow automation, data quality, and enterprise platform alignment
• Risk, dependency, issue, trade-off, and stakeholder management across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Ability to communicate technical direction clearly to business, delivery, platform, and architecture stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving technology delivery environments