Technical Delivery Lead

DefineX; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life insurance

Volunteer hours

Career growth support

Job summary

DefineX is a next-generation consulting house and venture builder based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We seek a senior delivery leader to own large-scale banking technology programs end-to-end, from scoping to go-live and stabilisation, across distributed teams and multi-vendor ecosystems.

The role requires 8+ years in technology delivery, banking/fintech experience, and excellent English communication, with Saudi-regulatory familiarity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology delivery, with banking/fintech experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; fluent English.
• Familiarity with Saudi regulations (SAMA, NCA) and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of large-scale banking technology programs end-to-end (scope, plan, quality, timeline, budget).
• Apply delivery approaches (Agile, Scaled Agile, hybrid) within client frameworks.
• Govern change control and secure approvals per contractual commitments.
• Own the commercial health of engagements (forecast vs. actuals).
• Lead delivery governance across distributed, multi-vendor teams; ensure quality and pace.
• Oversee release readiness, cutover, go-live and post-production stabilisation.

Skills

Technology delivery

Banking/fintech

English fluency

Stakeholder management

Job description

Team DefineX: DefineX is a next-generation consulting house and venture builder.

We partner with changemakers to turn bold visions into real-world impact bridging the critical gaps from strategy to design, design to launch, and launch to scale.

In the AI era, we help organizations build future‑ready business models and capabilities with the rigor of consulting and the pace of execution.

Our edge is our team: DefineXers.

A multidisciplinary group of consultants, engineers, designers, and strategists united by ownership, delivery excellence, and a shared ambition to build what’s next.

We play Larger Than Life.

Not as a motto. As a standard.

Your Impact Delivery Ownership

• Own delivery of a large-scale banking technology program end-to-end — scope, plan, quality, timeline and budget,
• Select and apply the right delivery approach for the engagement — Agile, Scaled Agile, hybrid or gated SDLC — including working within the client’s own delivery framework,
• Govern change control: assess impact, negotiate, and secure client approval for scope changes in line with contractual commitments,
• Own the commercial health of the engagement — forecast versus actual effort, burn, and delivery efficiency,
• Run delivery governance that people actually use: steering committees, status reviews, risk and dependency management,
• Drive delivery across distributed teams and a multi-vendor client ecosystem, keeping quality and pace consistent across locations,
• Own release readiness — cutover planning, go-live, hypercare and post-production stabilisation.

Technical Judgement

• Understand the architecture of what you are delivering well enough to question it — integration patterns, API design, system dependencies — without owning the design yourself,
• Interrogate estimates and tell a realistic plan apart from an optimistic or a padded one,
• Judge technical risk and sequence the work accordingly: integration dependencies, data migration, environment readiness and non-functional requirements,
• Ensure the test strategy is adequate for the release risk — SIT, UAT and the regression depth that banking release cycles demand,
• Act as the delivery counterpart to solution architecture: turn design decisions into plan, cost and risk, and bring delivery reality back into design discussions,
• Hold the delivery team and its technical counterparts to what they commit to — in their own language.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary delivery contact for client executives, business owners and technology leadership,
• Build trusted relationships grounded in delivery credibility, not reporting cadence,
• Keep delivery aligned with the client’s business priorities and regulatory commitments,
• Surface delivery risks and issues early, and manage escalations through to closure.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, coach and mentor the delivery team — business analysts, engineers, test leads and scrum masters — across a multi-cultural, multi-location setup,
• Partner with solution architects and product owners so that solution decisions hold up against business priorities and regulatory standards,
• Set the delivery culture: accountability, transparency, collaboration and continuous improvement.

What You Bring to the Table

• 8+ years in technology delivery, with a substantial part of it in banking, financial services or fintech either in-house at a bank, financial institution or fintech, or delivering consulting and integration projects for them,
• A technical foundation you can still use, you came up through engineering, integration or technical business analysis, and you can follow a system design discussion without a translator,
• A track record of owning a banking technology program end-to-end, through go-live and stabilisation,
• Practical understanding of API-led and integration-heavy delivery: API management and gateway platforms, microservices, event-driven flows, and core banking integration,
• Experience across more than one delivery methodology not a single-framework background,
• Familiarity with the Saudi regulatory environment as it affects delivery, SAMA frameworks (cyber security, outsourcing, business continuity, cloud, Open Banking), NCA controls, and data residency and personal data protection obligations,
• Experience delivering in distributed, multi-cultural teams and multi-vendor client environments,
• Strong communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills, with proven ability to engage senior client stakeholders,
• Fluent in English,
• Based in Riyadh, KSA.

Nice to have

• Fluent in Arabic and/or Turkish,
• Experience in a digital bank or fintech environment with short release cycles,
• Experience with regulator-driven or audit-driven delivery programs,
• DevSecOps, observability and modern engineering practice e xposure.

Benefits and Perks

• We highly value: A mentally and physically enabling environment where Best People want to be part of; we always respect and invest in talent to foster team success.
• GrowthandDevelopment: Be part of a growing global team of professionalswith training and support to help you grow.
• EveryDefineXer has aGrowthCoachtoacceleratetheirgrowththroughfeedback!
• IndependenceandOwnership: Blur in creative and challenging business and technology transformation projects.
• We love to Give Back: You will get certain hours a year to volunteer and organize office volunteer programs with local NGOs.
• HealthandWellness: Competitive private health and life insurance coverage.

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At DefineX, we don't just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of TeamDefineX! We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. TeamDefineX will advocate for, and provide reasonable accommodations to those applicants requiring them, based on the Turkish Disabilities Act, to ensure equal opportunity in the application process.