Delivery Manager

About Code Ninja

Code Ninja is a full-stack sovereign AI delivery company based in Riyadh, with delivery capabilities across Saudi Arabia and the MENA region. The company supports Saudi enterprises, software acquirers, and government entities in modernizing systems and operationalizing intelligence across mission-critical workflows. Code Ninja works with over 240 organizations in priority sectors such as government digitization, energy, financial services, logistics, and healthcare. The company's model focuses on building internal capability within client organizations through embedded engineering teams, AI Capability Centers, and Employer of Record services, aligning with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.

Role Overview

Code Ninja is seeking a Delivery Manager to manage technical change delivery for a prominent banking client in Riyadh. This full-time, operational role focuses on production-facing activities, including emergency fixes, production fixes, patches, upgrades, and infrastructure, network, and security changes. The position requires strict change governance and adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) within a live banking environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and govern the end-to-end delivery of technical changes.
• Coordinate production releases, emergency fixes, and urgent incidents.
• Oversee change governance, release readiness, and implementation controls.
• Ensure adherence to SLAs and maintain production stability.
• Coordinate with Change Management, Production Support, Infrastructure, Application Support, Security, and Operations teams.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in technical change or release delivery within a production banking or large enterprise environment.
• Strong operational delivery and production environment experience.
• Mandatory: PMP or PRINCE2 certification.
• Mandatory: Proven experience managing production releases and emergency/urgent fixes under SLA pressure.
• Mandatory: Direct experience with change governance and implementation controls in a live production environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• ITIL certification.
• Prior experience in banking or other regulated production environments.
• Exposure to incident management alongside change management.

Work Environment and Impact

This role offers the opportunity to work on high-visibility, bank-wide resilience programs with direct regulatory impact. As part of Code Ninja's embedded engineering model, the successful candidate will operate within a top-tier banking client's governance and workflows, supported by Code Ninja's delivery infrastructure. This position contributes to shaping critical business service continuity at a national banking scale, aligning with Vision 2030's objectives for digital sovereignty and resilience.