Senior Platform Architect — Hands-on Tech Leader

Qiddiya; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Qiddiya Digital is seeking a Senior Expert - Software Engineering to take technical ownership of critical digital product domains across Qiddiya’s ecosystem. This senior individual contributor role provides technical leadership to vendor teams and accountability for quality, resilience, security, and production readiness.

The role emphasizes elimination of black‑box delivery, retaining critical knowledge within Qiddiya, and ensuring control of digital platforms through defined architecture,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Extensive software‑engineering experience in lead/ senior architectural roles.
• Strong hands‑on engineering capability and ability to challenge implementation decisions.
• Experience designing and operating large‑scale, distributed, cloud‑native platforms.
• Proven experience overseeing vendors, system integrators, or outsourced teams.

Responsibilities

• Take end‑to‑end technical ownership of the assigned digital domain.
• Define and maintain target architecture, standards, and technical roadmap.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across design, implementation, integration, release, and production operations.
• Lead vendor engineering teams and ensure compliance with Qiddiya Digital standards.
• Review architecture, APIs, data models, integrations, and major technical decisions.
• Ensure solutions are resilient, scalable, secure, observable, and cost efficient.
• Define and monitor technical KPIs, SLIs, availability and latency targets.
• Oversee automated testing, CI/CD controls, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerts.
• Lead incident management, root‑cause analysis, and permanent remediation.
• Maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, and support procedures.

Skills

Lead engineering

Hands-on engineering

APIs

Microservices

Observability

Security

CI/CD

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT

Tools

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Job description

Qiddiya Digital is seeking a Senior Expert - Software Engineering to take technical ownership of critical digital product domains across Qiddiya’s ecosystem. This senior individual contributor role provides technical leadership to vendor teams and accountability for quality, resilience, security, and production readiness.

The role emphasizes elimination of black‑box delivery, retaining critical knowledge within Qiddiya, and ensuring control of digital platforms through defined architecture,