Senior Expert - Software Engineering (Digital Platforms - Catalog)
Qiddiya Investment Company1 month ago
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the assigned digital domain end to end, including architecture, engineering standards, technical roadmap, implementation, integration, releases, and production operations.
- Provide technical leadership to vendor engineering teams and review architecture, APIs, data models, integrations, code quality, and major technical decisions.
- Ensure platforms meet resilience, reliability, scalability, security, observability, maintainability, performance, and cost-efficiency objectives.
- Define and monitor technical KPIs, service-level objectives, availability, latency, recovery, and performance targets.
- Oversee automated testing, CI/CD controls, monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, capacity testing, disaster recovery, and production readiness.
- Lead technical incident management, root-cause analysis, permanent remediation, and management of technical debt and architectural risks.
- Maintain architecture documentation, technical decisions, runbooks, and support procedures while driving knowledge transfer and reusable engineering practices.
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, 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, problem-management, communication, stakeholder-management, and technical decision-making skills.
Benefits
- Full-time, on-site role in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.