Chief Tech Architect: AI Homes & Living Platform

The Greater Change; Dubai; On-site; AED 800,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

The Greater Change is building AI-native, agentic homes and workplaces in Dubai, uniting software and hardware to create wellness-focused environments. You will lead the technology organization, own platform architecture, and guide hardware integration from lab to full-scale residential towers.

Reporting to the CAIO, you will ensure reliable, scalable systems, govern privacy by design, and drive partnerships with real estate and tech teams in a founder-led setting.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed/event-driven architectures and edge+cloud designs.
• Proven leadership of multi-disciplinary engineering teams in fast-moving environments.
• Hands-on credibility in prototyping, reviewing architecture, and debugging hardware/software systems.

Responsibilities

• Own platform architecture and technical direction for device integration and data systems.
• Lead engineering teams across AI, app/platform, hardware and reliability with a focus on high-ownership engineers.
• Stand up and manage lab/experience centres and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Ensure reliability, security and privacy in ambient intelligence deployments across buildings.
• Drive R&D into wellness tech, robotics and sensing modalities.

Skills

Architecture

AI & Agents

IoT & Smart Buildings

App & Platform

Reliability

Security & Privacy

Leadership

Tools

Home Assistant

MQTT

KNX

Zigbee

Matter/Thread

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The Greater Change is building AI-native, agentic homes and workplaces in Dubai, uniting software and hardware to create wellness-focused environments. You will lead the technology organization, own platform architecture, and guide hardware integration from lab to full-scale residential towers.

Reporting to the CAIO, you will ensure reliable, scalable systems, govern privacy by design, and drive partnerships with real estate and tech teams in a founder-led setting.