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About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Principal Specialist, BU Data Domain, to drive enterprise-wide value creation through the development, governance, and optimization of corporate function data assets. This full-time role, based in Saudi Arabia, ensures trusted, high-quality, and accessible data to support strategic decision-making, operational effectiveness, regulatory compliance, and digital transformation initiatives across corporate functions.

The Principal Specialist will establish strong data domain governance, standards, and stewardship practices to strengthen data integrity, improve business insight generation, and accelerate the organization's ability to leverage analytics, automation, and emerging technologies. This position acts as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring data products align with business priorities and deliver measurable outcomes. The role contributes to Maaden's data-driven transformation agenda by enhancing data maturity and maximizing the value of enterprise information assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and execute the Corporate Functions Data Domain roadmap, aligning with enterprise data and digital strategies.
• Prioritize data initiatives to maximize business value, operational efficiency, and decision-making effectiveness.
• Translate business requirements into scalable data capabilities and products.
• Drive the adoption of data domain services to increase business confidence in enterprise data.
• Establish and strengthen governance frameworks, ownership models, standards, and controls across corporate function data assets.
• Improve data quality, consistency, accuracy, and traceability across critical business datasets.
• Monitor compliance with enterprise data policies, regulatory obligations, and information management standards.
• Resolve data risks and governance gaps to protect business integrity and decision quality.
• Develop and enhance data products that support reporting, analytics, automation, and AI-driven use cases.
• Enable reliable access to business-critical data for stakeholders across corporate functions.
• Improve the availability, usability, and lifecycle management of data assets.
• Drive continuous enhancement of data products based on business needs and performance insights.
• Build strong partnerships with corporate function leaders to understand priorities and data requirements.
• Align business and technology stakeholders around data value, governance, and product objectives.
• Influence data-driven decision-making through trusted insights and strategic recommendations.
• Foster collaboration across business units, data teams, and technology functions.
• Identify opportunities to improve data processes, controls, and management practices.
• Accelerate the adoption of modern data capabilities, analytics, and emerging technologies.
• Advance organizational data maturity through best practices and knowledge sharing.
• Deliver efficiency gains through standardized, scalable, and sustainable data solutions.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in data management, governance, or analytics roles.

Measures of Success

• Improved data quality, consistency, and availability across corporate function domains.
• Increased adoption and business utilization of approved data products and assets.
• Strong compliance with enterprise data governance standards and regulatory requirements.
• Reduced data-related risks, duplication, and reconciliation effort.
• Faster access to trusted insights supporting strategic and operational decisions.
• Increased business stakeholder satisfaction with data services, products, and reporting capabilities.