Director, Technology Development

Job Title:

Director, Technology Development

Reporting To: VP, Technology Enablement

Business Unit / Function:
Technology & Innovation

Department:
Technology Enablement

Grade: M13W

The Director, Technology Development turns Ma’aden’s technology ambition into measurable business value. The role provides enterprise leadership across a diverse portfolio of technology domains, connecting business priorities with specialist expertise and directing investment and execution toward the opportunities with the greatest potential to improve safety, productivity, reliability, growth and operational performance.

The role creates the conditions for technologies to move effectively from discovery and validation into scaled operational deployment. It integrates the work of Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, establishes clear portfolio priorities and governance, and ensures technology solutions are operationally ready, adopted and sustained.

Through disciplined prioritization, executive decision-making and strong technical leadership, the role strengthens Ma’aden’s ability to deploy technology at scale while building the specialist capability required for future growth and operational excellence.

• Shape and execute an integrated Technology Development portfolio that translates enterprise priorities into focused domain strategies, roadmaps and investments.
• Prioritize opportunities against business value, strategic relevance, deployment readiness, safety, risk and scalability, balancing near-term performance with longer-term capability.
• Integrate priorities across technology domains to reduce fragmentation, strengthen synergies and focus specialist capacity on Ma’aden’s highest-value challenges.

• Direct the progression of priority technologies from discovery and validation through deployment, adoption and scale, with clear outcomes, ownership and decision points.
• Establish measurable value hypotheses, baselines and performance measures that connect technology deployment to operational and business outcomes.
• Ensure deployed solutions are embedded into operational workflows and tracked through sustained adoption and value realization.

• Establish a disciplined portfolio operating model covering investment decisions, stage gates, resource allocation, risk, technical assurance and executive performance reviews.
• Strengthen execution by ensuring priority initiatives have robust business cases, accountable ownership, realistic deployment plans and operational sponsorship.
• Resolve critical dependencies and competing priorities across functions, assets and technology domains, redirecting resources where needed to protect delivery and value.

• Lead and develop Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, preserving their technical authority while aligning domain priorities and performance to common enterprise outcomes.
• Build a high-performance culture founded on safety, technical rigor, accountability, collaboration, innovation, knowledge transfer and delivery discipline.
• Strengthen succession and critical technology capability through targeted development, external expertise and strategic partnerships.

• Align business units, Operations, Engineering, Technology & Innovation and corporate stakeholders around technology priorities, investment choices and deployment roadmaps.
• Provide senior leadership with clear insight into portfolio performance, value, risks and investment trade-offs to strengthen decision-making.
• Shape external technology partnerships that accelerate access to relevant expertise, solutions and…