Senior Expert - Software Engineer (Checkout)

Qiddiya Digital is seeking highly experienced and hands-on Senior 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. Key Responsibilities - 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. Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline. - Extensive software-engineering experience in a Lead, Staff, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or senior architecture role. - Strong hands-on engineering capability and the ability to challenge implementation-level decisions. - Experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native, and highly available platforms. - Experience with customer-facing digital products, commerce, payments, loyalty, identity, ticketing, mobile, or similar platforms. - Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, data consistency, and failure recovery. - Strong experience with resilience, observability, performance engineering, security, automated testing, CI/CD, and production operations. - Experience defining technical KPIs, service-level objectives, non-functional requirements, and acceptance criteria. - Proven experience overseeing vendors, system integrators, or outsourced engineering teams. - Strong incident-management, root-cause-analysis, and problem-management experience. - Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and technical decision-making skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline. Extensive software-engineering experience in a Lead, Staff, Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or senior architecture role. Strong hands-on engineering capability and the ability to challenge implementation-level decisions. Experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native, and highly available platforms. Experience with customer-facing digital products, commerce, payments, loyalty, identity, ticketing, mobile, or similar platforms. Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, data consistency, and failure recovery. Strong experience with resilience, observability, performance engineering, security, automated testing, CI/CD, and production operations. Experience defining technical KPIs, service-level objectives, non-functional requirements, and acceptance criteria. Proven experience overseeing vendors, system integrators, or outsourced engineering teams. Strong incident-management, root-cause-analysis, and problem-management experience. Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and technical decision-making skills.