Principal Specialist, Enterprise Architecture

Job purpose

• Supports the Enterprise Architecture Director in defining and evolving Maaden’s enterprise architecture across IT, OT, Data, AI, and digital platforms

• Translates enterprise architecture vision, principles, and standards into practical domain and solution architectures

• Acts as a trusted architectural partner to domain and platform teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise direction, interoperability standards, and roadmaps

• Focuses on consistency, integration, and execution, rather than setting overall enterprise strategy

Key Accountabilities

Support Enterprise Architecture Direction

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures

• Translate enterprise architecture vision and roadmaps into actionable guidance for domain, platform, and solution architects

• Ensure architectural designs across data, AI, OT, and core systems align with defined enterprise standards

Govern Architecture Alignment

• Participate in architecture reviews led by the Enterprise Architecture Director or Architecture Review Board

• Identify risks related to fragmentation, duplication, or unmanaged technical debt and escalate where appropriate

Enable Cross-Domain Integration

• Apply defined integration patterns and reference architectures across platforms and systems

• Support end-to-end interoperability across IT, OT, data, and digital environments

• Collaborate with integration, data, and platform teams to ensure scalable and reusable solutions

Partner with Domain and Platform Teams

• Work closely with Domain Architects, Platform Architects, and engineering teams to support solution design

• Act as a point of coordination between delivery teams and enterprise architecture governance

Architecture Documentation and Communication

• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, including diagrams, standards, and design guidelines

• Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and constraints to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Minimum Qualification, Experience and Competencies

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Minimum Experience

• 8–12 years of experience in solution, domain, or enterprise architecture roles

Maaden High Performance Competencies

• Enterprise and solution architecture fundamentals across IT, OT, data, and digital domains

• Strong systems thinking with the ability to understand cross-domain impacts

• Architecture governance, standards enforcement, and design assurance

• Integration patterns and interoperability concepts

• Clear communication and collaboration with senior architects and delivery teams

Skills

• Experience working within large-scale, complex technology environments

• Exposure to industrial, mining, or asset-intensive environments preferred

• Strong understanding of modern enterprise platforms (cloud, data platforms, integration, OT systems)