EBU Fixed Technology Division Head

stc; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in Saudi Arabia is seeking an experienced individual to manage Agile product development and backlog prioritization. The role includes overseeing the delivery of product increments, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders, and implementing testing and DevOps practices. Qualified candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science, along with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, including expertise in Agile methodologies. This position offers a dynamic work environment focused on product optimization.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience and 3-4 years in a similar role.
• Experience in managing Agile product development and backlog prioritization in telecommunications or technology.
• Strong understanding of testing frameworks and validation protocols.

Responsibilities

• Act as the liaison for stakeholder needs from the respective team.
• Oversee the delivery of tribe backlog until completion.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine requirements.
• Ensure consistent utilization of Agile tools to manage workflow.
• Lead implementation of rigorous testing frameworks.

Skills

Agile methodologies

DevOps practices

Stakeholder communication

Backlog management

Code review

CI/CD pipeline

Education

Bachelor Degree in Information Technology

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Job Purpose

The role holder is responsible for acting as the liaison for stakeholder needs from the EBU Fixed team, prioritizing and managing the tribe’s backlog to ensure alignment with customer value propositions and strategic objectives. The role also involves overseeing the delivery of increments of value, fostering cross‑functional collaboration, and leading the implementation of Agile and DevOps practices to optimize product development and performance. The role holder shall carry out their duties in accordance with the stipulated business policies and procedures.

Job Responsibility

• Act as the liaison for stakeholder needs from the respective EBU Fixed team, prioritizing these needs in the tribe’s backlog
• Oversee the delivery of tribe backlog until completion, ensuring that increments of value are delivered by squads and knowledge is disseminated through the tribe
• Collaborate with stakeholders to iteratively refine requirements to ensure the development efforts align with the customer value proposition
• Regularly review and prioritize incoming demands in the tribe’s backlog, determining the necessary involvement from enterprise architecture (TS&A)
• Oversee staffing of the tribe and make decisions to reconcile staffing of local chapter members and business delivery (squads) priorities
• Analyze demands across squads, assess skills and availability of the Tribe Alliance chapter members, and make informed decisions on their allocation to squads
• Ensure consistent utilization of Agile tools (e.g., JIRA) to manage the Agile workflow, ensuring backlogs and sprints reflect current priorities and information
• Facilitate execution of Agile ceremonies, ensuring continuous progress toward product deployment

Job Responsibility (cont.)

• Direct enforcement of code quality standards and conduct regular code reviews to maintain high‑quality software builds
• Lead implementation of rigorous testing frameworks and validation protocols, including automated testing, to ensure the quality and performance of products
• Lead implementation of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipeline, to streamline and accelerate products development, testing, and deployment cycle
• Proactively communicate with all impacted areas about upcoming changes, facilitating discussions to address any cross‑tribe dependencies
• Supervise creation of a robust rollback strategy for deployments to quickly rectify any unsuccessful releases
• Ensure collaboration with Solution Architects in interactive workshops to explore and iterate on solution designs
• Lead the creation and subsequently own the 1‑year roadmap of allocated products and its delivery, aligned to overall technology architecture, supervising the interactions with TS&A and TE&C
• Actively engage in the tribe's Quarterly Business Review (QBR) process, including reviewing achievement of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), synthesizing insights from the past quarter's work into strategic memos, facilitating a cross‑tribe approach to manage dependencies, setting out action plans and squads resource allocation for the upcoming quarter
• Be accountable for L3 level incident resolution for production environment and support for L4 level incident resolution in cooperation with SE&A
• Collaborate closely with TS&A on all relevant matters, ensuring alignment on solution design, providing them with essential information, such as code blocks for repository inclusion, to facilitate the scalability and alignment of solutions with organizational goals
• Provide continuous forecasting of delivery timelines using Agile metrics, keeping all relevant units informed of progress and adjusting expectations in response to change
• Manage and control tribe’s relevant financial activities (spending plans, execution, and reporting)
• Manage and control tribe’s reporting on relevant strategic projects and programs activities
• Support creation and maintenance of just‑enough documentation that reflects the current understanding of requirements and design, in line with Agile principles
• Establish, analyze and monitor metrics to measure performance of products and squads
• Explore and evaluate new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance capabilities and improve efficiency within the tribe
• Identify opportunities for reusing existing work and share these practices within the tribe to enhance efficiency

Years Of Experience

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with at least 3 - 4 years of experience in a similar role.

Nature Of Experience

• Experience in managing Agile product development and backlog prioritization preferably within telecommunications or technology industry.

Job Band

Managerial jobs

Education

Bachelor Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science