Lead Specialist Engineering and Virtualization

What the work is

About the Role Ma’aden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Engineering and Virtualization to contribute to the organization's Data & AI strategy. This full-time role focuses on delivering resilient, scalable, and secure platform engineering and virtualization capabilities. The position is instrumental in establishing the technical foundation necessary for advanced analytics, artificial intelligence solutions, enterprise applications, and digital transformation initiatives. Role Purpose and Impact The Lead Specialist drives platform reliability, optimizes performance, and standardizes technology across the Data & AI ecosystem. By enhancing infrastructure capabilities and virtualization services, this role improves operational efficiency, accelerates service delivery, mitigates technology risks, and strengthens the organization's capacity to scale emerging digital solutions. Through technical expertise and cross-functional collaboration, the role ensures platform environments remain secure, available, and aligned with business growth while fostering innovation and operational excellence. Key Responsibilities Deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing virtualization and platform environments that support business-critical applications and Data & AI services. Optimize platform capacity, availability, and performance to ensure reliable service delivery across the organization. Strengthen infrastructure resilience through proactive lifecycle management and continuous platform enhancement. Expected Outcomes Achieve high platform availability and service reliability across Data & AI environments. Improve infrastructure utilization, scalability, and operational efficiency. Reduce service disruptions through proactive monitoring, automation, and risk management. Ensure strong compliance with cybersecurity, technology governance, and operational standards. Successfully deliver platform enhancements that enable data, analytics, and AI initiatives. Increase stakeholder confidence and satisfaction with platform performance and service quality. Required Capabilities Enable Data & AI workloads through robust platform architecture, virtualization technologies, and infrastructure services. Accelerate deployment and integration of data platforms, analytics solutions, and AI capabilities. Ensure platform environments support evolving business and technology requirements. Work Type This is a full-time position within Ma’aden.