Senior OT Data Architect & Industrial Modeling Leader

Ma'aden Aluminium Company (MAC); Medina; On-site; SAR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Ma'aden Aluminium Company (MAC) is seeking a senior OT data strategist to establish modeling standards and architecture for industrial OT data across plants and systems. You will standardize asset tags, events, alarms, and measurements to enable trusted OT analytics.

You will also align OT data with enterprise IT data products, ensuring quality, lineage, and governance while addressing high-volume and intermittent connectivity challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor level degree in a related discipline is required to support OT data modeling and architecture work.
• Master's degree is preferred for advanced data governance and architecture leadership.
• Experience in OT/IT data integration and data product design is essential.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise OT data modeling standards for time-series data, events, alarms, assets, tags, measurements, and production contexts.
• Establish canonical OT concepts including asset/location hierarchies, tag naming, and measurement definitions.
• Design scalable schemas for OT data layers and reusable data products with auditability and quality attributes.
• Architect OT-to-IT data alignment patterns and integration rules for cross-site normalization.
• Institute governance patterns with ownership, lineage, and lifecycle controls.

Skills

OT data modeling & architecture

Time-series data

Historians/SCADA/DCS

Asset hierarchy & location

Data governance & lineage

Data product design

Streaming ingestion

Industrial cybersecurity awareness

Architecture reviews & documentation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related

Master's Degree preferred

Job description

Ma'aden Aluminium Company (MAC) is seeking a senior OT data strategist to establish modeling standards and architecture for industrial OT data across plants and systems. You will standardize asset tags, events, alarms, and measurements to enable trusted OT analytics.

You will also align OT data with enterprise IT data products, ensuring quality, lineage, and governance while addressing high-volume and intermittent connectivity challenges.