Head of Tech, AI-Driven Platform & Living Systems

The Greater Change; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Greater Change is seeking a hands‑on Head of Technology to own the architecture, hardware integration, and reliability of AI‑native, agentic spaces in Dubai. You will lead AI, app/platform, hardware, and reliability teams, and steward the lab and Experience Centre from lab benches to fully deployed buildings.

You will drive end‑to‑end platform decisions, partner with product and design leads to deliver scalable solutions, and ensure privacy, security, and uptime for a multi‑site deployment

Qualifications

• Architecture: Distributed/event‑driven systems, edge + cloud hybrid design, data platforms, API and integration design
• AI & Agents: Practical experience shipping LLM‑based or agentic systems; RAG, tool use, local model deployment, evaluation and guardrails
• IoT & Smart Buildings: Home Assistant, MQTT, KNX, Zigbee, Matter/Thread, BMS integration
• App & Platform: Mobile (Flutter or native), PWA/web, backend services, dashboards; containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Reliability: Observability, telemetry, incident management, QA automation, SRE practices
• Security & Privacy: Privacy by design, biometric/health data handling, regional data regulation (UAE PDPL or GDPR equivalent)
• Leadership: Built and led multi‑disciplinary engineering teams (software + hardware) of 15+; strong hiring track record; comfortable in a fast‑moving, founder‑led environment

Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end platform architecture and technical direction across hardware integration and software layers
• Lead engineering teams across AI, app/platform, hardware and reliability with senior, high‑ownership engineers
• Stand up and run the lab and Experience Centre spaces with real hardware for testing
• Ensure uptime, security, privacy, and graceful degradation across spaces and deployments
• Oversee R&D into wellness tech, robotics, and new sensing modalities

Skills

Distributed systems

Edge + Cloud

LLM / Agentic AI

IoT / Home Assistant

KNX / Zigbee / MQTT

Leadership

Architectural Design

Security & Privacy

Team Building

CI/CD

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Home Assistant

MQTT

KNX

Zigbee

Job description

The Greater Change is seeking a hands‑on Head of Technology to own the architecture, hardware integration, and reliability of AI‑native, agentic spaces in Dubai. You will lead AI, app/platform, hardware, and reliability teams, and steward the lab and Experience Centre from lab benches to fully deployed buildings.

You will drive end‑to‑end platform decisions, partner with product and design leads to deliver scalable solutions, and ensure privacy, security, and uptime for a multi‑site deployment