Senior OT Data Delivery Architect

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM); Riyadh; On-site; SAR 360,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM) seeks a Principal Specialist to lead OT data engineering and ETL strategy, delivering scalable, secure data pipelines across multiple sites. You will shape ingestion from historians and OT systems, uphold data quality, and drive governance and architecture for enterprise analytics.

The role partners with OT operations, IT, and analytics teams to ensure reliable, observable, and cost-efficient data products, with a focus on secure-by-design delivery and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Data Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
• Master's degree preferred; OT systems exposure is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Define OT data engineering and ETL standards, patterns, and reference architectures covering batch, streaming, and near-real-time ingestion needs.
• Establish ingestion patterns for historians and OT source systems, including normalization, unit standardization, quality flags, and tag mapping processes.
• Design and assure robust pipeline reliability (idempotency, backfill, late-arriving data handling, reconciliation, alerting) appropriate for OT contexts.
• Ensure OT pipelines comply with security and segmentation requirements; partner with OT cyber and platform security teams for governance-by-design.
• Oversee and guide OT data transformation logic to produce curated OT data products aligned to enterprise models and governance requirements.
• Provide architectural oversight for site onboarding, handling variability across plants and ensuring consistent delivery standards across implementations.
• Review and assure vendor and internal deliverables; provide technical direction and quality gates for complex OT engineering initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement through performance tuning, cost optimization, observability, and operational resilience improvements for OT workloads.

Skills

OT data engineering

ETL

data pipelines

security governance

observability

vendor governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

ETL tooling

Job description

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM) seeks a Principal Specialist to lead OT data engineering and ETL strategy, delivering scalable, secure data pipelines across multiple sites. You will shape ingestion from historians and OT systems, uphold data quality, and drive governance and architecture for enterprise analytics.

The role partners with OT operations, IT, and analytics teams to ensure reliable, observable, and cost-efficient data products, with a focus on secure-by-design delivery and