Technical Delivery Manager

Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

About
We are a technology and innovation company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, helping organizations lead confidently in the digital era. By combining cutting-edge AI innovation with enterprise-grade cybersecurity, we enable businesses and governments to transform, scale, and operate securely in an increasingly complex world.

We are looking for a Technical Delivery Manager who leads projects, thrives at the intersection of technology and client impact, and genuinely cares about delivering outcomes. This is a senior, high-visibility role where you will own programs end-to-end, from responding to RFPs through delivery and into managed services.

Requirements

• 10+ years of technical project and program delivery, with a track record of owning complex, multi-workstream engagements.
• Demonstrable experience delivering GenAI, data, and advanced analytics solutions.
• Experience spanning the full engagement lifecycle: RFP response, project delivery, and post-go-live managed services.
• Proven client-facing experience at senior and executive level, with regional stakeholder management experience being a significant advantage.
• Experience operating in large enterprise or government delivery environments, particularly in sectors such as Energy, Oil & Gas, or Public Sector.
• Background in multi-vendor delivery environments with complex dependencies and distributed teams.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Program Leadership — End to End

• Own the full delivery lifecycle: from RFP response and solutioning through to go-live and post-delivery managed services.
• Define scope, roadmaps, delivery plans, milestones, and governance frameworks from day one of engagement.
• Drive sprint and release planning across distributed engineering, data, and AI teams in Agile and hybrid delivery models.
• Manage risks, dependencies, budgets, and timelines with rigor, maintaining meticulous documentation and program controls.
• Establish and embed PMO practices, reporting cadences, and delivery metrics across the program you own.

Client Advisory & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a trusted advisor to client leadership, translating complex technical delivery into clear, confident, executive-level communication.
• Build and sustain strong relationships with senior client and government stakeholders across the UAE and wider Middle East region.
• Lead board-level reporting and steering committee engagement, presenting progress, risks, and strategic recommendations with authority.
• Navigate multi-vendor and multi-stakeholder environments, aligning competing priorities and maintaining momentum.

RFP & Pre-Sales Contribution

• Play a hands-on role in developing RFP responses and solution proposals—actively writing, structuring, and shaping bids.
• Work with architecture and technical teams to estimate scope, effort, and delivery approaches for complex AI, data, and platform programs.
• Contribute to solution workshops and technical discussions, bringing delivery credibility to pre-sales engagements.

AI & Data Delivery

• Lead delivery of AI and machine learning solutions, data engineering pipelines, analytics platforms, and cloud infrastructure programs.
• Manage delivery across cloud-native (Azure, AWS, GCP) and on-prem environments, microservices architectures, API ecosystems, and CI/CD pipelines.

Team Leadership & Mentoring

• Serve as a mentor and coach to internal delivery teams, instilling best practices and building capability across the organization.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and delivery excellence within your programs.

Key Skills

• Understanding of AI and ML solution delivery, data pipelines, and agentic AI application architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud-native platforms: Azure, AWS, or GCP, including microservices and distributed system design.
• Knowledge of data platforms: data lakes, data warehouses, analytics ecosystems, and data engineering pipelines.
• Expertise in APIs, system integration, and enterprise application architectures.
• Proficiency in DevOps, CI/CD practices, and modern SDLC methodologies.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum/SAFe and hybrid delivery frameworks, including Jira and equivalent tooling.