Director Delivery Technical

About the Opportunity

Qiddiya Investment Company in Riyadh is seeking a Director - Delivery - Technical. This full-time role involves providing technical leadership for major residential developments within the Residential Business Unit. The Director will oversee the technical progression of projects from design development and procurement through construction, commissioning, and handover, ensuring that design intent translates into technically robust, buildable, and commercially efficient solutions.

Role Overview

The ideal candidate will combine strong client-side technical and project delivery experience with deep knowledge of residential construction, multidisciplinary design coordination, and end-to-end asset delivery. This position requires a professional who can manage complex technical interfaces and ensure high standards throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across residential projects from design development through construction and handover.
• Lead coordination between Development, Design, Delivery, Commercial teams, consultants, and contractors.
• Review designs for constructability, technical compliance, value engineering, and delivery risk.
• Manage technical stage gates, design reviews, and resolution of complex multidisciplinary interfaces.
• Support procurement strategy, tendering, and technical evaluation of contractors and consultants.
• Oversee architectural, structural, MEP, façade, and other key technical interfaces during delivery.
• Monitor programme, cost-plan, and technical risks, identifying corrective actions where required.
• Ensure construction quality, specifications, and approved design requirements are maintained.
• Oversee testing, commissioning, snagging, defect closure, and technical readiness for handover.
• Manage key stakeholder, authority, consultant, and contractor relationships.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to project delivery teams across the residential portfolio.

Qualifications and Experience

• 15+ years of relevant project and technical delivery experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
• Strong experience delivering large-scale residential or mixed-use developments, including apartments, villas, and master-planned communities.
• Significant client-side developer or PMC experience, ideally combined with contractor-side experience.
• Demonstrable experience across the full project lifecycle, from design and procurement through construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Strong understanding of design management, constructability, value engineering, procurement, and construction delivery.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary consultants, contractors, and complex project interfaces.
• GCC experience is strongly preferred; Saudi Arabia experience is advantageous.
• Strong leadership, commercial awareness, and senior stakeholder management capability.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.