Senior Technical Engineer - Integration (UAE Nationals Only)

VerifiedJobs.ae; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

EK Group is seeking a Senior Technical Engineer to design, develop and support robust IT solutions across business and IT initiatives. You will lead cross‑functional teams, ensure architecture compliance, and drive automation and cloud adoption in line with enterprise standards.

You will work within the EG-IT framework to deliver high‑quality designs, integrate with middleware, and mentor engineers while maintaining documentation and governance.

Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology.
• 8+ years in Information Technology.
• ITIL and AGILE frameworks knowledge.
• Agile and DevOps practice with servant leadership.
• Cloud expertise with public clouds and VMware private cloud.
• Automation using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and shell scripting.
• Interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills.
• Attention to detail and quality; outcomes-oriented.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ownership mentality and teamwork.
• Cloud platforms depth; architecture level familiarity.
• 6+ years infra design/implementation/administration.
• 4+ years integration products support (TIBCO EMS, MQ, Jenkins).
• Expertise in Microservices, API gateways (APIGEE), and IPaaS (SnapLogic).
• Data streaming (Kafka, Solace).
• Linux scripting; DevOps with SAFE; Confluence/JIRA.
• Infra as Code with Ansible/Terraform; Git/Bitbucket.
• Cloud concepts and container-based apps; hybrid cloud.
• Azure and AWS familiarity; product features awareness.
• Dashboard tooling (Splunk, ELK, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Networks, ServiceNow, servers, service mesh, mTLS, SSO, SAML, NoSQL DBs.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical consultancy and lead technical members in project teams.
• Develop IT solutions meeting customer requirements; ensure robust design per standards.
• Ensure architectures meet service levels for availability, capacity, security, and performance.
• Foster high-performing teams to meet architectural objectives.
• Develop solution architectures with EA standards; support tech advancements.
• Collaborate with IT teams to monitor technology and configure incidents in EMS.
• Guide project managers on design and development of in-house solutions.
• Resolve incidents within SLAs; analyze problems; manage changes in the tech area.
• Publish and maintain high-quality documentation per templates and guidelines.
• Manage End of Life replacement of equipment/software; support initiatives.
• Translate enhancement specs into error-free code using enterprise tools.

Skills

ITIL

Agile frameworks

DevOps practices

Microservices

Leadership

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Infrastructure design

Cloud concepts

Networks basics

Education

Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Shell scripting

APIGEE

SnapLogic

Kafka

Solace

TIBCO EMS

IBM WebSphere MQ

Confluence

JIRA

Git

Bitbucket

Splunk

ELK

AppDynamics

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

Job description

Job Purpose

To Design and support IT solutions for the EK Group. Working as part of a design and support team, the Senior Technical Engineer will design, develop, support, and deliver robust and cost-effective solutions for both Business and IT-led initiatives including solution development and cost estimations, configuration and deployment, Business Case Development and approval.

Job Description

To support, contribute, and ensure solution compliance to the enterprise architecture, production processes, QMS, and other EG-IT standards.

To support, contribute, and ensure the development of the roadmap of the concerned technology roadmap aligning with IT strategy.

Accountabilities

• Provide expert technical consultancy and guidance to EG-IT dealing within the technology area and act as lead technical member in the Project team delivering the work packages assigned.
• Develop IT Solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure that the design is robust, appropriate, and of high quality conforming to corporate standards and in line with the technical strategy.
• Ensure that the developed architecture/solution meets the service level requirements in terms of expected availability, capacity, continuity, security, performance, and reliability.
• Foster the development of high-performing technical teams to meet strategic architectural objectives.
• Develop solution architectures for assigned projects with established EA standards and also support in the development of technology advancements and adaptation of new technologies.
• Collaborate with other IT Technology Teams to implement ongoing monitoring of the relevant technology to ensure severity 1 & 2 incidents are configured within EMS.
• Provide guidance to Project managers / Technology Team Managers for solution definition, technical design, and development of in-house developed solutions. These are to be delivered as per agreed costs and timescales to meet signed-off functional, technical, and process requirements.
• Ensure that assigned incidents are resolved within the agreed Service Levels and problems are defined and analyzed in line with the Problem Management Process. Ensure that solutions to problems meet the architectural and security standards within the technology area and that impact on the business is minimized. Own & manage changes within the Technology Area.
• Publish and maintain high-quality documentation for the technology area. Working within the standard templates and documentation guidelines which includes detailed design, configuration details, support procedures, operations manuals, and deployment architecture.
• Manage End of Life replacement of equipment and/or software within the technology area to ensure conformance to technical standards and support the Technology initiatives and directions.
• Ensure the process and Enhancement specifications are translated into effective programs with error-free code using the enterprise development tools, methods, and languages.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) - Information Technology
• Experience: 8+ years in Information Technology
• Knowledge/skills: ITIL and AGILE Frameworks
• Agile and DevOps practice, servant leadership principles
• Cloud expertise - experience with leading public clouds, VMware based private cloud
• Automation expertise - Terraforms, Ansible, Jenkins, shell scripting
• Interpersonal skills, Influence and Negotiation
• Organizing for Outcomes, attention to detail and quality
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to take up responsibilities/ownership and steer to success as a team.
• Cloud platforms - Specialty or Architecture level
• Minimum 6 years experience in infrastructure (systems and software platforms) design, implementation and administration.
• Minimum 4 years of Integration products support experience covering technologies such as TIBCO suite Products (EMS, BW, BW6, BW Container Edition, ActiveSpaces), IBM WebSphere MQ, Jenkins.
• Hold expertise in Microservices, Event driven solution, API Gateway products like APIGEE, Integration solution in cloud (IPaaS like Snaplogic) and data streaming platforms like Kafka and Solace.
• LINUX knowledge with scripting skills.
• Must have experience in working in DevOps and AGILE methodology (preferably SAFE). Experience with Confluence and JIRA.
• Must have the passion and skills to improve and increase efficiency at pace with automation.
• Should be able to cater Infra as Code requirements with popular tools/languages like Ansible, Terraform etc. Able to work with repositories like GIT and BitBucket.
• Fully aware of cloud concepts and container-based applications - especially Hybrid cloud functioning.
• Must be aware of popular public cloud - MS Azure, AWS - about the products and features in each offering.
• Must have the basic skills to use Splunk, ELK, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Grafana for dashboards.
• Should have general awareness on Networks, ServiceNow, servers, service mesh, operators for containers, mTLS , SSO, SAML, NoSQL DBs.