Senior Data Modeling & Architecture Lead

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Maaden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Modeling & Architecture II to design and deliver high-quality data models and architecture artifacts that enable governed, performant data products across multiple projects. You will partner with engineering, governance, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable models.

You will lead with advanced technical guidance, define transformations, and support model-driven delivery while ensuring traceability and metadata quality for analytics

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related discipline.
• 8–12 years of experience in data modeling and solution architecture within enterprise analytics environments.
• Hands‑on experience delivering models for modern cloud data platforms and supporting production deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain logical and physical data models for analytics, integration, and reporting use cases, aligned with enterprise standards and naming conventions.
• Translate business requirements into consistent entities, attributes, and relationships; ensure definitions align with the business glossary and stewardship ownership.
• Develop dimensional models and curated layer schemas that support performant analytics and standardized KPIs.
• Define mappings and transformation rules from source systems to curated layers; ensure traceability, lineage, and reconciliation requirements are met.
• Participate in solution design reviews; identify modeling risks and recommend mitigation (data quality, master/reference data, performance, historization).
• Support data engineers with model-driven implementation guidance; validate that physical implementations align with approved designs.
• Contribute reusable templates, reference models, and design patterns to accelerate delivery and standardize outputs.
• Collaborate with governance teams to ensure metadata completeness, catalog registration, and data quality checks are embedded in delivery.

Skills

Data modeling (logical/physical)

Data quality & governance

Cross-functional collaboration

SQL

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Engineering

Tools

Modeling tools (ER/Dim)

Cloud data platforms (warehouses)

Job description

Maaden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Modeling & Architecture II to design and deliver high-quality data models and architecture artifacts that enable governed, performant data products across multiple projects. You will partner with engineering, governance, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable models.

You will lead with advanced technical guidance, define transformations, and support model-driven delivery while ensuring traceability and metadata quality for analytics