Senior Expert – Software Engineering (Digital Platforms – Catalog)

Job Summary

Qiddiya Digital seeks a Senior Expert in Software Engineering to take end-to-end technical ownership of critical digital product domains. This senior individual contributor role provides technical leadership to vendor engineering teams while maintaining accountability for platform quality, resilience, reliability, security, performance, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of the assigned digital domain and define target architecture, engineering standards, and technical roadmap.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, implementation, integration, release, and production operations.
• Lead and challenge vendor engineering teams to ensure compliance with Qiddiya Digital standards.
• Review and approve architecture, APIs, data models, integrations, code quality, and major technical decisions.
• Validate vendor deliverables using clear acceptance criteria and measurable technical evidence.
• Define and monitor technical KPIs, service-level objectives, availability, latency, recovery, and performance targets.
• Lead technical incident management, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation.
• Maintain architecture documentation, technical decisions, runbooks, and support procedures while driving knowledge transfer.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Extensive software-engineering experience in a Lead, Staff, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or senior architecture role.
• Strong hands-on engineering capability and ability to challenge implementation-level decisions.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native, and highly available platforms.
• Experience with customer-facing digital products such as commerce, payments, loyalty, identity, ticketing, or mobile platforms.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, data consistency, and failure recovery.
• Strong experience with resilience, observability, performance engineering, security, automated testing, CI/CD, and production operations.
• Proven experience overseeing vendors, system integrators, or outsourced engineering teams.
• Strong incident-management, root-cause-analysis, and problem-management experience.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and technical decision-making skills.

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