About the Job:
One of the UAE’s fastest-growing AI businesses is scaling aggressively and looking to appoint a Senior Engineering Director to lead the next phase of growth across enterprise AI and large-scale platform engineering. This is a high-impact leadership role focused on building and scaling mission-critical AI/data platforms used across enterprise, government, and complex large-scale environments.
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You’ll work directly with executive engineering leadership while driving:
- Engineering strategy & platform evolution
- Architecture & distributed systems design
- Cloud-native platform engineering
- Large-scale backend & data-intensive systems
- Technical delivery across multiple engineering squads
- Mentoring and scaling high-performing engineering teams
The environment is heavily engineering-led, fast-moving, and deeply technical — ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex scalability, architecture, and platform challenges while remaining close to technology and engineering decision-making.
Preferred Backgrounds Include:
- AI/ML or data platform companies
- Distributed/cloud-native systems
- Enterprise SaaS or platform engineering businesses
- High-scale backend engineering environments
- Product/platform-led technology companies
Tech Environment Includes:
- Python
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- APIs
- SQL/NoSQL
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- AI-enabled Platforms
- Enterprise Architecture
Why This Opportunity Stands Out:
- Significant ownership & influence at engineering leadership level
- Opportunity to shape architecture, engineering culture, and scalability strategy
- Highly attractive long-term relocation package for families
- Premium healthcare & life insurance
- Business-class relocation support
- Schooling allowance for children (rare benefit even at senior leadership level)
- Annual family flights
- Up to 6 weeks remote flexibility yearly
- Tax-free package + strong bonus structure
This is very much a “build, scale, and shape” environment rather than a traditional corporate engineering role. If you come from a strong platform/product engineering background and enjoy operating at the intersection of architecture, engineering leadership, scalability, and delivery, I’d be happy to speak further.
