Director – Digital Engineering

Job Summary

Lead technical oversight of Qiddiya’s core digital product streams, ensuring all platforms and services are designed and delivered to the highest engineering standards. Set technical direction, govern solution quality, and align vendors and engineering teams to Qiddiya’s technology strategy and architecture principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight of Qiddiya’s core digital product streams, ensuring solutions align with target architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technology vision
• Define and enforce engineering principles around reusability, scalability, resiliency, reliability, observability, maintainability, security, and performance across all digital products
• Review, challenge, and validate technical decisions with clear ownership and governance over architecture and engineering direction
• Engage at low-level design, architecture, code, integration, infrastructure, and operational decision-making levels
• Challenge vendor proposals, solution designs, and implementation approaches to ensure Qiddiya retains control over critical engineering decisions
• Ensure digital products are built as reusable capabilities that can be extended across multiple Qiddiya assets
• Lead and manage Staff Software Engineers embedded within product streams, setting expectations around technical governance and engineering excellence
• Partner with architecture, product, delivery, DevSecOps, cloud, and security teams to align product delivery with the overall digital target state

Requirements

• Significant experience in senior engineering leadership roles, ideally within large-scale digital platforms, e-commerce, entertainment, travel, hospitality, fintech, or high-traffic consumer digital environments
• Strong hands-on technical background with ability to challenge detailed engineering, architecture, integration, infrastructure, and implementation decisions
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in complex multi-vendor or system integrator delivery models
• Strong experience governing delivery of reusable digital platforms, shared services, APIs, and scalable product architectures
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, DevSecOps, cloud-native architecture, observability, resiliency, reliability engineering, and secure-by-design delivery
• Experience working with executive stakeholders and translating technical risks, trade-offs, and recommendations into clear business and delivery decisions

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