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Assistant Director of Digital Platforms & Engineering
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5years
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Posted:
16 September 2026 (3 days ago)
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Application Deadline:
14 December 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Our client is a holding group in Saudi Arabia Kingdom and they are looking to hire an Assistant Director of Digital Platforms & Engineering leads the end-to-end technology strategy architecture product delivery cybersecurity execution systems integration vendor governance and engineering operations across the Holdings portfolio of customer-facing digital platforms. The role located in Cairo Egypt and will be working on a hybrid mode and will be responsible for building and operating a high-performing remote platform engineering office that owns and delivers multiple products: OTA B2C / B2B Platform Online Tourism Platform Fleet Management Platform Shared Digital Services and Shared Digital Services.
The Role Mission is to: Build a professional scalable secure and high-performing digital platform engineering capability that accelerates business growth reduces vendor dependency improves delivery velocity and ensures reliable platform operations year-round including during Hajj and Umrah peak demand.
Key Responsibility:
The Role Mission is to: Build a professional scalable secure and high-performing digital platform engineering capability that accelerates business growth reduces vendor dependency improves delivery velocity and ensures reliable platform operations year-round including during Hajj and Umrah peak demand.
Key Responsibility:
- Technology Strategy & Roadmap
- Define and own the digital platform technology strategy aligned with SIAD Holdings growth vision agenda.
- Build and maintain the multi-year technical roadmap for OTA tourism fleet AI and shared services platforms.
- Make and govern build / buy / integrate / partner decisions in collaboration with the IT & Digital Transformation Director.
- Define and enforce technology standards across backend frontend mobile integration cloud security and data layers.
- Identify future platform capabilities required for business scale AI readiness and competitive positioning.
- Present technology strategy risks and investment recommendations to executive leadership.
- Product Delivery Leadership
- Translate approved business priorities into structured platform delivery plans with clear milestones owners and KPIs.
- Lead Agile delivery execution across OTA tourism fleet AI and shared services product lines.
- Manage Product Managers Business Analysts Engineering Leads QA DevOps Integration and Support teams.
- Enforce sprint discipline backlog governance scope control and weekly delivery reporting.
- Drive UAT readiness release management and production go-live coordination with business stakeholders.
- Eliminate uncontrolled development through formal change governance and dependency management.
- Platform Architecture Ownership
- Own and govern the overall architecture of all company online platforms.
- Design and maintain scalable secure and maintainable backend frontend mobile API cloud integration and data architectures.
- Establish reusable shared services: identity & access management notifications payments booking engine pricing engine supplier connectivity workflow orchestration audit logging and reporting.
- Prevent fragmented duplicated and undocumented system design through formal architecture review and approval.
- Maintain architecture documentation system diagrams integration maps and data flow diagrams as living artifacts.
- Ensure all architecture decisions align with enterprise technology governance and NCA ECC / PDPL compliance requirements.
- Cybersecurity & Application Security
- Own cybersecurity execution for all online platforms aligned with NCA ECC controls and PDPL obligations.
- Embed secure software development practices (SAST DAST code review secrets management) into the engineering lifecycle.
- Enforce security controls for authentication authorization API access admin and supplier access customer data protection payment flows audit logging and production access.
- Coordinate vulnerability assessments and penetration testing; ensure critical and high-risk vulnerabilities are remediated within agreed SLAs.
- Design platforms with privacy auditability and security-by-default as non-negotiable architectural principles.
- Integration Strategy & Delivery
- Own the integration strategy and architecture across all platforms and third-party systems.
- Govern integrations with ERP (Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O) CRM PMS (Opera Cloud / OHIP) channel managers (Fastbooking) payment gateways supplier APIs GPS / telematics providers communications gateways (WhatsApp / Twilio) BI and data platforms.
- Define API standards integration patterns error handling retry logic monitoring and centralized logging.
- Prevent uncontrolled point-to-point integrations; enforce a governed integration layer.
- Own technical coordination with third-party vendors and system integrators.
- Vendor Technical Governance
- Manage technical delivery from all software vendors and implementation partners.
Review vendor architecture delivery plans technical quality and documentation before acceptance. - Monitor vendor milestones defects and SLA performance on a weekly basis.
- Enforce source code handover deployment documentation and support knowledge transfer at project close.
- Identify and escalate vendor dependency risks; recommend mitigation plans to the IT & Digital Transformation Director.
- Engineering Management
- Build lead and grow the remote platform engineering office across backend frontend mobile QA DevOps integration data/BI application security and support functions.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards: coding practices branching strategy code review process documentation standards and release discipline.
- Manage team capacity performance skill development and succession planning.
- Build an engineering culture grounded in ownership accountability documentation and continuous improvement.
- DevOps Cloud & Platform Reliability
- Own platform reliability in coordination with DevOps and cloud engineering teams.
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines environment management (dev / QA / staging / UAT / production / DR) and deployment automation.
- Implement monitoring logging alerting backup and incident response processes for all production systems.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure cost and performance; ensure scalability readiness for Hajj Umrah and seasonal demand peaks.
- Drive platform uptime targets and define SLA commitments for each business unit.
- Quality Assurance & Release Governance
- Own release readiness and quality governance for all digital platforms.
- Ensure QA coverage across functional API integration regression mobile performance and security testing.
- Mandate release notes test reports rollback plans and deployment checklists before every production release.
- Approve release readiness before submission to the IT & Digital Transformation Director for final go-live sign-off.
- Track production defects root causes and corrective actions; drive test automation maturity over time.
- AI Data & Platform Intelligence
- Ensure all platforms are designed for AI readiness clean data models structured event streams and API-accessible data layers.
- Support BI dashboards for booking performance conversion supplier margin fleet utilization system health and customer behavior analytics.
- Identify AI and automation opportunities across OTA tourism fleet and hotel platforms to drive operational efficiency.
- Platform Support & Operations
- Establish L2/L3 application support capability with defined SLAs escalation paths and runbooks.
- Define incident management post-mortem and continuous improvement processes.
- Maintain a knowledge base support runbooks and troubleshooting guides that reduce support escalations over time.
- Ensure proper handover from development to support teams at each release.
Requirements
Educational Background
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems Computer Engineering Information Technology or a closely related technical discipline.
- Masters degree MBA or executive technology programme is preferred.
- Professional certifications in cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP) cybersecurity (CISSP CEH) project delivery (PMP SAFe) or enterprise architecture (TOGAF) are advantageous.
- 1015 years Overall technology leadership experience
- 7 years Software engineering leadership
- Remote engineering team management
- Web and mobile platform delivery
- Vendor technical governance
- Cloud infrastructure and DevOps
- AI/ML product delivery or data platform experience
