Software Engineering Manager

NMDC Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

NMDC Group in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced Engineering Leader to guide software and data engineering teams. You will set strategy, define architecture, promote best practices, and ensure scalable, maintainable solutions across the business platform.

You will partner with product, UX, and IT leaders to shape the technical roadmap, drive DevOps, QA automation, and data governance while fostering a culture of learning and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team in executing the technical strategy ensuring the highest standards of design patterns, code quality, solution extensibility, usability, and maintainability

Job description

Job Description:

• Lead, manage, mentor, and build a team of software engineers and data engineers fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and creative problem-solving
• Establish Engineering best practices, frameworks, agile methodologies and tools to promote Technology Engineering Excellence in an industrial setting
• Ownership of Engineering Budget. Manage resources including staffing, software licenses, and tools
• Closely partner with product managers, UX/UI designers, business stakeholders, and the IT Group to develop the technical strategy, design and architecture of the Business Unit’s technology platform
• Lead the engineering team in executing the technical strategy ensuring the highest standards of design patterns, code quality, solution extensibility, usability, and maintainability
• Help define a clear framework of compliance, governance, system integration and data integrity between the Business Unit (Vertical) and IT Group (Horizontal)
• Guide the design and architecture of a purpose-built data platform for the Business Unit establishing an ecosystem for data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence and other innovations
• Design and implement a SaaS platform enabling multiple feature teams to build business-specific solutions while maintaining a standard user experience
• Lead and conduct technical evaluations of 3rd party applications / solutions
• Establish DevOps processes and best practices
• Create comprehensive framework for Quality Assurance, Testing, and Automation
• Strive to learn and apply latest technologies and methodologies promoting a culture of continuous learning on the team