Director Digital Engineering📣 إعلان

About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Director - Digital Engineering to provide technical leadership across its core digital product streams. This full-time position, based in Riyadh, Riyadh Province, is critical for ensuring that all digital platforms, services, and capabilities are designed and delivered to the highest engineering standards. The role is accountable for building digital products with a reusable, scalable, resilient, reliable, observable, and extensible architecture that can be leveraged across multiple Qiddiya assets.

Technical Leadership and Engineering Governance

The Director will set the technical direction, challenge low-level engineering decisions, and govern solution quality to meet the standards defined by Qiddiya Investment Company. This includes working within a multi-vendor delivery environment and ensuring alignment of vendors, engineering teams, and embedded technical leaders with Qiddiya’s technology strategy, architecture principles, and operating model. Specific responsibilities include:

• Leading the technical oversight of Qiddiya’s core digital product streams, ensuring solutions align with target architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technology vision.
• Defining and enforcing engineering principles around reusability, scalability, resiliency, reliability, observability, maintainability, security, and performance across all digital products and platforms.
• Ensuring all technical decisions are properly reviewed, challenged, and validated by Qiddiya, with clear ownership and governance over architecture and engineering direction.
• Acting as a senior technical authority capable of engaging at low-level design, architecture, code, integration, infrastructure, and operational decision-making levels.
• Challenging vendor proposals, solution designs, implementation approaches, and technical trade-offs to ensure Qiddiya retains control over critical engineering decisions.

Product Architecture and Reusability

A core aspect of this role is to champion architectural excellence and reusability across the digital ecosystem. Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring digital products are built as reusable capabilities that can be extended and adopted across multiple Qiddiya assets, rather than designed as isolated one-off implementations.
• Driving the creation of reusable patterns, components, services, APIs, integration approaches, and engineering guidelines that support product scalability across the Qiddiya ecosystem.
• Partnering closely with architecture, product, delivery, DevSecOps, cloud, and security teams to ensure product delivery aligns with the overall digital target state.

Leadership of Staff Engineers

The Director will be responsible for cultivating a strong internal engineering capability and guiding technical talent. Key duties include:

• Leading and managing Staff Software Engineers who will be embedded within product streams and work closely with vendor teams.
• Setting clear expectations for Staff Engineers around technical governance, architecture review, engineering excellence, code quality, observability, resiliency, and vendor challenge.
• Ensuring Staff Engineers actively influence product delivery, review technical decisions, and protect Qiddiya’s long-term technology interests.
• Building a strong internal engineering capability that reduces dependency on vendors for critical technical decisions and strengthens Qiddiya’s ownership of its digital platforms.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will possess a robust background in engineering leadership and a deep understanding of modern digital platforms:

• Significant experience in senior engineering leadership roles, ideally within large-scale digital platforms, e-commerce, entertainment, travel, hospitality, fintech, or other high-traffic consumer digital environments.
• Strong hands-on technical background with the ability to challenge detailed engineering, architecture, integration, infrastructure, and implementation decisions.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in a complex multi-vendor or system integrator delivery model.
• Strong experience governing the delivery of reusable digital platforms, shared services, APIs, and scalable product architectures.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, DevSecOps, cloud-native architecture, observability, resiliency, reliability engineering, and secure-by-design delivery.
• Experience working with executive stakeholders and translating technical risks, trade-offs, and recommendations into clear business and delivery decisions.

Location and Work Type

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. The role requires active participation in a multi-vendor delivery environment, collaborating with various internal and external teams to achieve Qiddiya’s strategic digital objectives.