Director of Emerging Tech
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Job Summary
Our Mission is to Simplify Life. We simplify and automate complex decision-making for customer-centric industries including Utilities Financial Services Logistics and Government that drive the worlds economies.
We are looking for a technically dominant operationally rigorous Director of Emerging Technology to lead our EmTech engineering team in Jordan. You will own the full engineering mandate of our Emerging Technology practice setting the standard for how we architect build and deliver solutions across low-code enterprise platforms microservices and modern cloud-native stacks.
You will lead highly skilled engineers building on complex production-grade systems. Your technical depth matches theirs: you can engage in deep architectural debates evaluate trade-offs with precision and make decisions that hold up under production pressure. Your credibility is built on expertise not title.
Technical mastery is only half the mandate. You are the anchor of the EmTech team absorbing external complexity and translating it into calm structured direction. You build a culture of accountability equitable performance and consistent delivery excellence where merit is the only currency. You operate on the same clear sequence: What then How then Who.
- Hands-on technical oversight across the EmTech portfolio: Mendix (or equivalent) microservices APIs cloud-native stacks.
- Personally engage in architecture reviews estimates and technical decisions; ensure honest rigorous commitments.
- Drive code quality standards technical debt management and design review practices.
- Lead evaluation and adoption of emerging tech (AI/ML intelligent automation) separating hype from production-ready capability.
- Establish engineering KPIs: velocity defect density deployment frequency MTTR.
- Serve as the senior engineering leader for the team with clarity and full executive backing.
- Act as the strategic buffer between external pressure and your engineers.
- Enforce transparent consistent engineering practices from sprint ceremonies to quarterly reviews.
- Establish a structured communication cadence with global leadership.
- Own delivery accountability across all EmTech programs on time on budget on spec.
- Implement rigorous delivery governance: sprint discipline milestone tracking dependency and risk management.
- Run data-driven delivery reviews against objective metrics.
- Address performance gaps with speed and fairness.
- Promotions bonuses and assignments earned through measurable contribution never tenure relationships or lobbying.
- Anchor evaluations to objective documented criteria visible before the review period.
- Build career development frameworks with clear competency milestones.
- Ensure diverse technical talent thrives through a system that rewards capability and eliminates favoritism.
- Mentor and develop engineering leads and senior engineers into the next generation of technical leaders.
- Ensure every engineer has clarity on scope priorities and growth trajectory.
- Design rapid onboarding; build a learning culture that makes EmTech a destination for top regional talent.
- Bachelors in CS Software Engineering or Information Systems (required); Masters (strongly preferred).
- Deep hands-on experience with low-code enterprise platforms specifically Mendix or an equivalent platform (OutSystems Power Platform at enterprise scale).
- Proven expertise in microservices API design event-driven and distributed systems.
- Modern stacks: cloud-native (AWS/Azure/GCP) Docker Kubernetes CI/CD DevOps.
- Software quality engineering and emerging-tech evaluation discipline.
- 15 years in tech with 5 years leading engineering teams of 20.
- Proven track record building/scaling high-performing engineering teams and performance systems.
- Senior technical leader for a practice/team/CoE; client-facing delivery; developing engineering leads.
- Agile/SAFe/DAD;
- change leadership;
- Jira/Azure DevOps/Confluence.
- English & Arabic (required)
- Mendix certification (Intermediate/Advanced) (strongly preferred)
- PMP/PMI-ACP (preferred)
- MENA market experience.
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Requirements Education Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or a related technical discipline (required). Masters degree in a technical or management discipline (strongly preferred). Technical Expertise Deep hands-on experience with low-code enterprise platforms specifically Mendix or architecturally equivalent platforms (OutSystems Power Platform at enterprise scale). You must be able to evaluate technical feasibility review application architecture and challenge engineering decisions at the implementation level. Proven expertise in microservices architecture API design event-driven systems and distributed computing patterns. Strong command of modern engineering stacks: cloud-native development (AWS Azure or GCP) containerization (Docker Kubernetes) CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Working knowledge of software quality engineering: automated testing frameworks performance benchmarking and release management processes. Demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies AI/ML integration intelligent automation edge computing with the discipline to distinguish production-ready capability from market noise. Leadership & Experience 15 years in technology roles with at least 5 years in engineering leadership positions managing teams of 20 engineers in a product consulting or enterprise software environment. Proven experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams establishing the technical standards cultural norms and delivery discipline that transform good teams into exceptional ones. Experience serving as the senior technical leader for an engineering practice team or center of excellence with full authority over technical direction team performance and delivery outcomes. Experience building and enforcing performance management systems objective metric-driven evaluation frameworks that ensure fairness transparency and accountability. Demonstrated success in client-facing technical delivery in a consulting or professional services environment including direct executive stakeholder communication. History of mentoring and developing engineering leads building leaders not just contributors. Knowledge Skills & Abilities In-depth understanding of Agile SAFe DAD and hybrid delivery methodologies with the practical wisdom to know when frameworks help and when they need adaptation. Exceptional written and verbal communication in English (required) and Arabic (required). Advanced skills in team building change leadership and building high-performance cultures within engineering organizations. Proficiency in engineering and delivery management tools (Jira Azure DevOps Confluence and data visualization/dashboarding platforms). Strong knowledge of the software and digital transformation landscape particularly SaaS platforms utility solutions and enterprise DXP ecosystems. Certifications & Preferences Mendix certification (Intermediate or Advanced) (strongly preferred). PMP PgMP or PMI-ACP certification (preferred). Experience in MENA markets with cultural intelligence and the ability to lead diverse multilingual engineering teams. Prior experience in industries served by the company: Utilities Financial Services Logistics or Government.
About Company
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