Head of Tech: Greenfield Buying & Sourcing Platform

Salt; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a hands-on technology leader to build and scale a greenfield Buying, Planning & Sourcing platform. You will own the technology strategy, architecture and delivery, shaping an engineering function and building a high-performing team across markets.

You will work closely with Product, Design, Data and Operations to translate priorities into scalable digital products, champion modern practices, and ensure reliability, security, and data-driven decision-making as the platform evolves.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading software or product engineering teams as a Head of Engineering, Engineering Director, VP Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong product-engineering background within a fast-moving digital business, marketplace, e-commerce, fintech, travel-tech or consumer technology environment.
• Proven experience building a platform from scratch or modernising a legacy platform.
• Able to operate in ambiguity and own a greenfield technology mandate.
• Credible technically while remaining hands-on, able to challenge architecture and guide teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the engineering vision, architecture and delivery roadmap for a new platform.
• Turn manual and legacy processes into scalable internal digital products.
• Lead technical decision-making across architecture, code quality and platform reliability.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data and business stakeholders to translate priorities into outcomes.
• Build and scale the engineering organization, leveraging existing capabilities.
• Drive modern engineering practices across cloud-native development, microservices, event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, DevOps and CI/CD.
• Ensure integration with ERP and broader inventory, e-commerce, data and operations systems.
• Establish delivery governance, technical KPIs, security-by-design and observability.

Skills

Leadership

Head of Engineering

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Stakeholder Management

Architecture Review

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD Pipelines

Oracle ERP Integration

Job description

Salt is seeking a hands-on technology leader to build and scale a greenfield Buying, Planning & Sourcing platform. You will own the technology strategy, architecture and delivery, shaping an engineering function and building a high-performing team across markets.

You will work closely with Product, Design, Data and Operations to translate priorities into scalable digital products, champion modern practices, and ensure reliability, security, and data-driven decision-making as the platform evolves.