Senior Director of Engineering

Job Title: Senior Engineering Director

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (Onsite)

One of the UAE’s fastest-growing AI businesses is scaling aggressively and looking to appoint a Senior Engineering Director to lead the next phase of growth across enterprise AI and large-scale platform engineering.

This is a high-impact leadership role focused on building and scaling mission-critical AI/data platforms used across enterprise, government, and complex large-scale environments.

You’ll work directly with executive engineering leadership while driving:

• Engineering strategy & platform evolution

• Architecture & distributed systems design

• Cloud-native platform engineering

• Large-scale backend & data-intensive systems

• Technical delivery across multiple engineering squads

• Mentoring and scaling high-performing engineering teams

The environment is heavily engineering-led, fast-moving, and deeply technical — ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex scalability, architecture, and platform challenges while still remaining close to technology and engineering decision-making.

Strong fit backgrounds typically come from:

• AI/ML or data platform companies

• Distributed/cloud-native systems

• Enterprise SaaS or platform engineering businesses

• High-scale backend engineering environments

• Product/platform-led technology companies

Tech environment includes:

Python | Distributed Systems | Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) | APIs | SQL/NoSQL | DevOps | CI/CD | AI-enabled Platforms | Enterprise Architecture

Why this opportunity stands out:

• Significant ownership & influence at engineering leadership level

• Opportunity to shape architecture, engineering culture, and scalability strategy

• Highly attractive long-term relocation package for families

• Premium healthcare & life insurance

• Business-class relocation support

• Schooling allowance for children (rare benefit even at senior leadership level)

• Annual family flights

• Up to 6 weeks remote flexibility yearly

• Tax-free package + strong bonus structure

This is very much a “build, scale, and shape” environment rather than a traditional corporate engineering role.

If you come from a strong platform/product engineering background and enjoy operating at the intersection of architecture, engineering leadership, scalability, and delivery — I’d be happy to speak further.

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