SVP Software Engineering - Head of Engineering

Client of Discovered MENA

Lead and scale the engineering organisation across multiple product and platform domains, ensuring consistent delivery of high-performance and secure technology.

Work closely with enterprise architecture and product leadership to harmonise technical solutions with long-term business vision.

Introduce and embed cutting-edge engineering practices such as CI/CD, cloud-native frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code.

Cultivate a collaborative, inclusive, and forward-thinking engineering culture that fosters innovation, autonomy, and continuous learning.

Oversee the rollout of engineering standards, tooling strategies, and quality benchmarks across teams.

Align engineering operations with security, compliance, and reliability goals to ensure systems run safely and at scale.

Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of new features, products, and enhancements.

Track engineering performance through actionable KPIs-code quality, release velocity, uptime, incident rates, and more.

Nurture talent within the engineering function through structured mentoring, coaching, and clear career progression frameworks.

Champion agile methodologies and modern DevOps principles to embed efficiency and adaptability into our development cycles.

Contribute to hiring strategy, onboarding programs, and employee engagement initiatives to attract and retain top-tier technical talent.