Senior Data Platform Architect — Databases & Data Marts

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 280,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company is seeking a Senior Specialist, Data Base & Data Mart to build trusted data foundations for analytics, reporting, AI, and strategic decisions. You will architect scalable databases and data marts, drive ETL/ELT delivery, and enforce governance across enterprise platforms.

Lead cross-functional teams to optimize performance, reliability, and security while mentoring engineers and aligning with corporate standards and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Master's degree in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Analytics, or a related field is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Deliver scalable and high-performing database and data mart solutions that support enterprise analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.
• Translate business and analytical requirements into logical and physical data models aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Establish reusable design patterns that improve consistency, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
• Enable reliable delivery of enterprise data through robust ETL/ELT processes, transformation logic, and data integration practices.
• Ensure solutions are deployed, tested, and transitioned into production effectively and sustainably.
• Improve delivery quality through technical reviews, architecture compliance, and engineering best practices.
• Optimize database and data mart performance through tuning, workload analysis, indexing, and capacity management.
• Strengthen operational resilience through effective monitoring, issue resolution, recovery planning, and preventive improvements.
• Improve platform availability and reliability while supporting growth in business and analytical demand.
• Embed data quality, lineage, metadata, ownership, retention, and governance requirements within enterprise data solutions.
• Ensure data assets remain secure, auditable, and compliant with corporate policies and regulatory requirements.
• Reduce data risk through proactive assessment and remediation of control gaps and quality issues.
• Partner with engineering, analytics, governance, architecture, cybersecurity, and business teams to deliver prioritized data capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance that improves delivery decisions, solution quality, and stakeholder confidence.
• Communicate technical recommendations, trade-offs, and constraints in a clear and business-focused manner.
• Drive adoption of modern database, cloud, automation, and observability practices that enhance value and efficiency.
• Strengthen engineering capability through standards, reusable assets, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
• Improve delivery consistency and operational maturity through continuous enhancement initiatives.

Skills

Database Architecture

Dimensional Data Modeling

Data Mart & Data Warehouse Design

ETL/ELT Development

SQL Performance Optimization

Data Quality & Governance

Cloud Data Platforms

Data Integration & Orchestration

Security, Privacy & Audit Controls

Release & Environment Management

Technical Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Education

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

Master's degree in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Analytics, or a related field is advantageous

Job description

Maaden Saudi Arabian Mining Company is seeking a Senior Specialist, Data Base & Data Mart to build trusted data foundations for analytics, reporting, AI, and strategic decisions. You will architect scalable databases and data marts, drive ETL/ELT delivery, and enforce governance across enterprise platforms.

Lead cross-functional teams to optimize performance, reliability, and security while mentoring engineers and aligning with corporate standards and regulatory requirements.