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Dubai - UAE

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Salary Not Disclosed

Nationality

Emirati

Gender

Male

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Roles and responsibilities

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Leading and mentoring a diverse team of 100+ engineers, providing guidance and direction on best practices and technical decisions
  • Owning the product and solution architecture with a key focus on quality control and code optimisation
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve engineering processes and raise the bar on quality and efficiency
  • Influencing best practices to ensure they're followed across the company
  • Collaborating with senior leadership and key stakeholders to define and execute the technical roadmap aligned with business goals
  • Optimising and reviewing team performance, aiming to increase the quality of engineering as a functional leader
  • Playing a key role in the hiring process

What You'll Need

  • A bachelor's degree (or above) in computer science, maths, physics, or a similar area of study
  • Experience building and leading a significant software engineering team(s) within a scaling organisation
  • Impressive software architecture skills, with experience in scalable distributed systems
  • Big-picture thinking to correctly diagnose problems and build innovative solutions
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Decision-Making: Strong judgment to make tough trade-off decisions about feature prioritization and resource allocation.

  • Technical Understanding: Basic knowledge of the technology stack and development processes to facilitate productive conversations with the development team.

  • Problem-Solving: Ability to identify issues quickly and work collaboratively to find effective solutions.


Desired candidate profile

  • Vision and Strategy: Ability to define and articulate the product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals.

  • Backlog Management: Proficient in creating, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog to maximize value delivery.

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Strong interpersonal skills to gather and balance input from various stakeholders, ensuring their needs are reflected in the product.

  • User-Centric Mindset: Focus on understanding user needs and pain points through research and feedback to drive product improvements.

  • Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze data and metrics to make informed decisions about product direction and features.

  • Agile Methodologies: Deep understanding of agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and the role of a Product Owner within those frameworks.

  • Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey the product vision, requirements, and updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Decision-Making: Strong judgment to make tough trade-off decisions about feature prioritization and resource allocation.

  • Technical Understanding: Basic knowledge of the technology stack and development processes to facilitate productive conversations with the development team.

  • Problem-Solving: Ability to identify issues quickly and work collaboratively to find effective solutions.

Employment Type

Full-time

Company Industry

Airlines and Aviation

Department / Functional Area

Product Management

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