EY GDS MENA Design Studio Lead UX Engineer Manager

EY GDS MENA Design Studio Manager- Lead UX Engineer

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Overview

GDS Design Studio part of the MENA GDS Customer and Growth team combines design engineering and CX technology to deliver modern digital transformation across the region. We apply a human centred design first approach to create scalable intuitive and secure digital products.

As a Manager you will lead engineering teams shape solution architecture and ensure high quality delivery across programs for government and enterprise clients in the Middle East.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Manager Full Stack Engineering to lead architecture engineering strategy delivery governance and team performance across systems built on and SQL.

You will collaborate closely with design product DevOps platform and cloud teamsensuring solutions are well engineered scalable secure and built for modern cloud and on premise environments.

Key Focus Areas

• Technical Leadership: Establish engineering best practices architecture patterns code quality standards and scalable design principles.
• Solution Architecture: Define front end API and data architectures aligned to enterprise cloud and on prem requirements.
• AI & GenAI Integration (Model Agnostic): Identify opportunities to use AI/LLMs within workflows; design integrations with any enterprise approved LLMs; embed summarisation classification search conversation or automation capabilities; ensure responsible use and compliance.
• Cloud & On Prem Hosting: Design deployment ready architectures for Azure and on prem environments ensuring portability security and performance.
• Agile Delivery Leadership: Own estimation sprint planning governance risk mitigation and engineering health across Agile programs.
• DesignTechnology Alignment: Ensure design to code fidelity accessibility robust component implementation and consistency with tokens grids and interaction patterns.
• Performance & Reliability: Govern testing observability performance optimisation and operational readiness.
• RFPs & Pursuit Support: Provide technical inputs estimates solution pitches and prototypes during pursuits and client discussions.

Impact You Will Make

You will shape the engineering direction of high visibility programs across the Middle East guiding teams to deliver secure intuitive and enterprise grade digital systems. You will gain exposure to large scale cross border transformation initiatives while accelerating your growth as a modern engineering leader.

Key Responsibilities

• Front-End Engineering (React)
• Lead development of responsive accessible UIs using React TypeScript HTML5 CSS/SCSS.
• Define and maintain reusable component systems and design token implementation.
• Drive performance improvements through optimisation code splitting caching and runtime tuning.
• Collaborate closely with design teams using Figma for specifications and QA.

Back-End Engineering (.NET)

• Architect Core APIs with clean secure domain models and structured error patterns.
• Implement security patterns including OAuth2/OIDC/JWT.
• Oversee SQL schema design indexing query optimisation and Entity Framework Core best practices.
• Enable highly testable maintainable and scalable API and service architectures.

AI & GenAI (Vendor Neutral)

• Integrate enterprise approved LLMs into product features (Azure on prem or other platforms).
• Design prompt flows inference patterns and AI assisted user journeys responsibly.
• Enable capabilities such as summarisation conversational UX document Q&A and contextual intelligence.
• Ensure compliance data safety and appropriate model selection based on client constraints.

Cloud (Azure) & On Prem Infrastructure

• Support deployment architectures across Azure App Services Azure SQL identity providers storage and monitoring.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams on containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (AKS/EKS).
• Ensure solutions support both cloud and on prem deployments including hybrid integrations.
• Oversee logging tracing alerting and metrics aligned to enterprise observability standards.

Agile & Delivery Governance

Lead sprint ceremonies backlog shaping and cross functional planning.

Drive code reviews quality gates technical debt management and best practice engineering maturity.

Mitigate delivery risks and ensure predictable high quality outcomes.

Mentor engineers and build a high performance culture.

Requirements

Education

Engineering Computer Science BCA/MCA or equivalent.

Experience

912 years of full stack engineering with deep delivery experience in .

Eye for high end (game quality) front end CSS/HTML designs.

Proven leadership of teams architecture decisions and Agile delivery.

Experience deploying on both cloud and on prem environments.

Technical Skills

Must Have

Front End: React TypeScript HTML5 CSS3/SCSS; WCAG/ARIA.

Backend: Core C# REST API standards auth (OAuth2/OIDC/JWT).

Data: SQL schema design indexing EF Core.

AI/GenAI: Ability to integrate enterprise LLMs (Azure on prem or other providers).

Process: Git Agile/Scrum testing practices documentation.

Preferred

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab Azure DevOps).

Docker Kubernetes (AKS/EKS).

Azure hosting and identity services; on prem deployment familiarity.

Observability monitoring logging tracing.

Tailwind Material UI or other UI libraries.

Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (Semantic Kernel LangChain like tools).

Soft Skills

Strong communication with design product engineering and business teams.

Ability to articulate constraints trade offs and technical direction.

Detail oriented quality driven and structured.

Collaborative and mentoring focused.

Curiosity towards emerging AI cloud and engineering trends.

Ideal Candidate

Brings deep engineering expertise with strong architectural judgement.

Understands design systems accessibility performance and reliability.

Comfortable leading teams across UI API data cloud and AI.

Balances delivery rigor with innovation and technical clarity.

What Working at EY Offers

At EY were dedicated to helping our clients from startups to Fortune 500 companies and the work we do with them is as varied as they are.

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange.

Plus we offer:

• Support coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way thats right for you