Senior Platform Architect & Tech Lead

Qiddiya Investment Company 1; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Qiddiya Digital in Riyadh seeks a Senior Expert of Software Engineer – Digital Platform to take technical ownership of critical digital product domains across Qiddiya’s ecosystem.

This is a senior individual contributor role with strong technical authority and leadership to vendor teams, ensuring quality, resilience, security, performance, and operational readiness of the platform while keeping critical knowledge in-house.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field.
• Extensive software-engineering experience in Lead, Staff, Principal Engineer, or senior architecture roles.
• Strong hands-on engineering capability; able to challenge implementation-level decisions.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with customer-facing digital products, commerce, payments, loyalty, identity, or similar platforms.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience with resilience, observability, security, automated testing, CI/CD, and production operations.
• Proven experience leading vendors or outsourced engineering teams.
• Strong incident-management, root-cause-analysis, and problem-management experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

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 operations.
• Lead vendor teams and ensure compliance with standards.
• Review architecture, APIs, data models, integrations, and major decisions.
• Validate vendor deliverables with clear acceptance criteria and evidence.
• Ensure solutions are resilient, scalable, secure, observable, maintainable, and cost-efficient.
• Define and monitor technical KPIs, SLAs, availability, latency, and performance targets.
• Ensure automated testing, CI/CD controls, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Validate release plans, rollout strategies, rollback procedures, capacity testing, DR, and readiness.
• Lead technical incident management and permanent remediation.
• Identify technical debt, architectural risks, and recurring incidents.
• Maintain architecture docs, runbooks, and support procedures.
• Drive knowledge transfer so Qiddiya can operate and evolve the platform.
• Promote reusable capabilities across Qiddiya’s digital assets.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture

Cloud-native

APIs

CI/CD

Incident management

Vendor management

Security

Distributed systems

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Cloud platforms

Microservices

Job description

Qiddiya Digital in Riyadh seeks a Senior Expert of Software Engineer – Digital Platform to take technical ownership of critical digital product domains across Qiddiya’s ecosystem.

This is a senior individual contributor role with strong technical authority and leadership to vendor teams, ensuring quality, resilience, security, performance, and operational readiness of the platform while keeping critical knowledge in-house.