At the company, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai; and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers Fly Better. The company Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer – ERP Platform to design, implement, and operate resilient platform strategies to enable scalability, performance, and stability using cloud and hybrid capabilities as part of a major Cloud ERP transformation and its ongoing service operations.
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This is a 36-month fixed-term contract based in Dubai, with 5 days per week in the office. In this role, you will take end-to-end accountability for defining and governing platform standards, ensuring maintainability, enabling safe upgrades, and sustaining scalability, performance, and stability of a single ERP platform supporting multiple entities. You will engage with internal and external stakeholders, lead technical design reviews, and ensure production grade migration outcomes aligned to corporate standards and technology strategy.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, development, and deployment of complex software solutions across teams.
- Champion development of best engineering practices and modernization techniques including process automation, lean software development, built-in-quality, test-driven development, agile practices, optimal pairing strategies, and timely root cause analysis and blameless incident post-mortems.
- Provide technical leadership and partner with cross-functional teams during discovery phase and in the development of high-level design of medium to large projects.
- Drive proof-of-concepts and implement prototypes to validate ideas. Investigate, debug, and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions.
- Identify and develop framework, tools, and practices to improve delivery quality of technology solutions and productivity of engineers.
- Responsible for the measurement and monitoring of engineering metrics that enable agility, scalability, data quality, and reliability of technology solutions across the enterprise.
- Contribute to the creation of world-class engineering practices, playbooks, and artefacts required to drive the technical career of software engineers in line with the software engineering strategy.
- Support and guide the team of engineers in working autonomously in multi-disciplinary release trains.
- Ensure optimal use of enterprise application platforms, tools, and libraries in line with the approved technology architecture and associated Software Vendors.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and ongoing engagement with technical teams in the effective technical documentation of developed software.
- Manage multiple assigned teams, with accountability for hiring top talent, defining development goals, managing performance, mentoring, and coaching.
Requirements
- Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in Information Technology, including engineering and operating enterprise-grade cloud and/or hybrid infrastructure in a 24/7 environment.
- Ability to define and govern enterprise ERP platform standards across application and integration layers.
- Strong experience establishing platform principles, guardrails, and reference patterns to prevent fragmentation.
- Experience in defining ERP platform upgrade strategy, including release cadence and controlled adoption of new features.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end performance characteristics of ERP platforms.
- Experience diagnosing and resolving cross-layer performance bottlenecks (application, database, integration, infrastructure).
- Strong understanding of platform-level security controls, including access, authentication, and authorization.
Salary & Benefits
Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary, along with travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world. This role also offers an excellent leave and healthcare package, transport benefits, life insurance, and more.
