AI Platform Engineering Manager — Azure-Driven Product Lead

Discovered MENA; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 315,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovered MENA is seeking an AI Engineering Manager with a strong product focus to lead the architecture, build, and stabilization of a modern enterprise platform on Azure. You will balance engineering execution with strategic product thinking, managing platform backlogs as a service for a growing portfolio of AI and ML use cases.

You will sit at the intersection of software development, platform architecture, and product strategy, ensuring foundational platform components are rock solid while

Qualifications

• Proven background operating as an Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Product Manager with strong product management responsibility.
• Extensive experience building, scaling, and managing enterprise platforms as a product.
• Deep technical experience with Azure cloud architecture and engineering design.
• Hands on expertise in platform engineering, machine learning pipelines, or developing agent runtimes.
• Direct experience managing engineers, platform architects, and product professionals.
• Prior background within banking or highly regulated enterprise environments is preferred.
• A forward deployed engineering mindset capable of operating across high level strategy and deep architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team including software engineers, platform specialists, and product team members
• Define and execute the platform roadmap with a heavy emphasis on treating infrastructure and platform capabilities as a service
• Stabilize core building blocks while enabling internal engineering teams to rapidly build and deploy agent runtimes
• Drive platform architecture and technical design using the Azure ecosystem
• Manage, prioritize, and groom complex engineering and product backlogs to support dozens of evolving enterprise use cases
• Translate high level business and machine learning requirements into actionable technical delivery plans for your teams
• Foster an environment of technical excellence, continuous delivery, and product driven engineering standards

Job description

Discovered MENA is seeking an AI Engineering Manager with a strong product focus to lead the architecture, build, and stabilization of a modern enterprise platform on Azure. You will balance engineering execution with strategic product thinking, managing platform backlogs as a service for a growing portfolio of AI and ML use cases.

You will sit at the intersection of software development, platform architecture, and product strategy, ensuring foundational platform components are rock solid while