Head of Technology - Buying, Planning, Sourcing

Head of Technology – Buying, Planning & Sourcing Location: Dubai, UAE We are hiring a hands-on technology leader to build and scale a new in-house Buying, Planning & Sourcing platform for a major consumer and retail group. This is a greenfield product-engineering leadership role. You will own the technology strategy, architecture and delivery of a platform that transforms how the business plans demand, manages suppliers, buys products, allocates stock and supports merchandising decisions across multiple markets. This is an opportunity to shape a business-critical platform from the ground up, establish the engineering function and build a high-performing team over time. This is a role for… A product-engineering leader who enjoys building rather than inheriting. You will be comfortable taking manual business area and turning it into a modern, scalable internal platform from the ground up. You may come from e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech, travel-tech or another high-growth product organisation but you will have experience working closely with Product teams to solve complex commercial and operational problems through technology. This is not a traditional IT applications or management role. It suits someone who is technically hands-on, commercially minded and excited by the opportunity to set the engineering direction, build a team and create a platform with real organisation-wide impact. What you’ll do • Define the engineering vision, architecture and delivery roadmap for a new Buying, Planning & Sourcing platform. • Turn manual and legacy business processes into scalable, intuitive internal digital products. • Lead hands-on technical decision-making across architecture, code quality, engineering standards and platform reliability. • Partner with Product, Design, Data and business stakeholders to translate priorities into deliverable product outcomes. • Build and scale a dedicated engineering organisation, initially leveraging existing capability • Drive modern engineering practices across cloud-native development, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, DevOps and CI/CD. • Ensure the platform integrates effectively with Oracle ERP and wider inventory, e-commerce, data and operational systems. • Establish delivery governance, technical KPIs, security-by-design, observability and operational resilience. • Identify practical opportunities for AI, automation, forecasting and data-driven decision-making. What we’re looking for • Significant experience leading software or product engineering teams as a Head of Engineering, Engineering Director, VP Engineering or equivalent. • A strong product-engineering background within a fast-moving digital business, marketplace, e-commerce, fintech, travel-tech or consumer technology environment. • Proven experience building a platform from scratch, or leading a major modernisation of a legacy platform. • Comfortable working in ambiguity and taking ownership of a greenfield technology mandate. • Technically credible and still hands-on: able to challenge architecture, review code and guide engineering teams directly. • Experience building scalable cloud-native products using modern engineering practices such as microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. • Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to partner closely with product leaders while leading engineering delivery. Show more Show less

Significant experience leading software or product engineering teams as a Head of Engineering, Engineering Director, VP Engineering or equivalent. Proven experience building a platform from scratch, or leading a major modernisation of a legacy platform. Comfortable working in ambiguity and taking ownership of a greenfield technology mandate. Technically credible and still hands-on: able to challenge architecture, review code and guide engineering teams directly. Experience building scalable cloud-native products using modern engineering practices such as microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to partner closely with product leaders while leading engineering delivery.

Define the engineering vision, architecture and delivery roadmap for a new Buying, Planning & Sourcing platform. Turn manual and legacy business processes into scalable, intuitive internal digital products. Lead hands-on technical decision-making across architecture, code quality, engineering standards and platform reliability. Partner with Product, Design, Data and business stakeholders to translate priorities into deliverable product outcomes. Build and scale a dedicated engineering organisation, initially leveraging existing capability. Drive modern engineering practices across cloud-native development, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, DevOps and CI/CD. Ensure the platform integrates effectively with Oracle ERP and wider inventory, e-commerce, data and operational systems. Establish delivery governance, technical KPIs, security-by-design, observability and operational resilience. Identify practical opportunities for AI, automation, forecasting and data-driven decision-making.