Senior Platform Engineer & Technical Leader

Qiddiya Investment Company

Riyadh

On-site

SAR 350,000 - 550,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Qiddiya Digital seeks a highly experienced Senior Expert of Software Engineer – Digital Platforms to own digital domains across Qiddiya’s ecosystem with strong technical authority. This senior IC role provides technical leadership to vendor teams and is accountable for quality, resilience, security, performance, and operational readiness of the assigned platform.

A key objective is to eliminate black-box delivery, retain critical knowledge within Qiddiya, and ensure Qiddiya remains in full

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT or related discipline.
Extensive software-engineering leadership in senior roles (Lead, Staff, Principal, Tech Lead).
Hands-on engineering capability and ability to challenge implementation-level decisions.
Experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native platforms.
Experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, data consistency, and failure recovery.
Strong experience with resilience, observability, performance engineering, security, automated testing, CI/CD, and production operations.
Proven experience overseeing vendors, system integrators, or outsourced engineering teams.
Strong incident-management, root-cause-analysis, and problem-management experience.
Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and technical decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

Take end-to-end technical ownership of the assigned digital domain.
Define and maintain the target architecture, engineering standards, and technical roadmap.
Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, implementation, integration, release, and production operations.
Lead and challenge vendor engineering teams, ensuring compliance with Qiddiya Digital standards.
Review and approve architecture, APIs, data models, integrations, code quality, and major technical decisions.
Validate vendor deliverables using clear acceptance criteria and measurable technical evidence.
Ensure solutions are resilient, reliable, scalable, secure, observable, maintainable, and cost efficient.
Define and monitor technical KPIs, service-level objectives, availability, latency, recovery, and performance targets.
Ensure appropriate automated testing, CI/CD controls, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting are in place.
Validate release plans, rollout strategies, rollback procedures, capacity testing, disaster recovery, and production readiness.
Lead technical incident management, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation.
Identify and manage technical debt, architectural risks, recurring incidents, and operational weaknesses.
Maintain architecture documentation, technical decisions, runbooks, and support procedures.
Drive knowledge transfer and ensure Qiddiya can independently operate and evolve the platform.
Promote reusable capabilities and common engineering practices across Qiddiya’s digital assets.