Expert - Software Engineer

Qiddiya Digital is seeking highly experienced and hands-on Expert of Software Engineer – Digital Platforms to take technical ownership of critical digital product domains across Qiddiya’s ecosystem.  This is a senior individual contributor role with strong technical authority. While the position has no direct line-management responsibility, it will provide technical leadership to vendor engineering teams and remain accountable for the quality, resilience, reliability, security, performance, and operational readiness of the assigned platform.  A key objective is to eliminate black-box delivery, retain critical knowledge within Qiddiya, and ensure Qiddiya remains in full control of its digital platforms. • Take end-to-end technical ownership of the assigned digital domain.  • Define and maintain the target architecture, engineering standards, and technical roadmap.  • Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, implementation, integration, release, and production operations.  • Lead and challenge vendor engineering teams, ensuring compliance with Qiddiya Digital standards.  • Review and approve architecture, APIs, data models, integrations, code quality, and major technical decisions.  • Validate vendor deliverables using clear acceptance criteria and measurable technical evidence.  • Ensure solutions are resilient, reliable, scalable, secure, observable, maintainable, and cost efficient.  • Define and monitor technical KPIs, service-level objectives, availability, latency, recovery, and performance targets.  • Ensure appropriate automated testing, CI/CD controls, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting are in place.  • Validate release plans, rollout strategies, rollback procedures, capacity testing, disaster recovery, and production readiness.  • Lead technical incident management, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation.  • Identify and manage technical debt, architectural risks, recurring incidents, and operational weaknesses.  • Maintain architecture documentation, technical decisions, runbooks, and support procedures.  • Drive knowledge transfer and ensure Qiddiya can independently operate and evolve the platform.  • Promote reusable capabilities and common engineering practices across Qiddiya’s digital assets.