Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer — Enterprise Platforms & Automation
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE | Full-time
The Role
Our client is seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of complex enterprise platforms, automation and workflow-driven products.
This is not a pure management role. You will lead a small engineering team while remaining hands-on across architecture, design, coding and production delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Own architecture, system design, APIs, data models and technical delivery.
- Design complex workflows, state management and human approval processes.
- Build scalable enterprise integrations, including ERP/SAP where relevant.
- Lead engineers while remaining hands-on with code and technical reviews.
- Establish standards for security, testing, CI/CD, observability and reliability.
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Identify appropriate opportunities to leverage AI/LLMs within enterprise workflows.
Requirements
- 10+ years software engineering experience.
- 4+ years at Staff, Principal, Lead Engineer or equivalent level.
- Strong backend and distributed-systems experience.
- Expertise in APIs, databases, microservices and enterprise integration.
- Experience with workflow-heavy or transaction-heavy platforms.
- Cloud, Kubernetes, containers and CI/CD experience.
- Strong security, reliability and observability mindset.
- Recent hands-on production engineering experience.
Strong Advantage
- Workflow/BPM or state-machine experience.
- Event-driven architecture.
- ERP/SAP integrations.
- Azure.
- LLM/GenAI or agentic AI in production.
- Financial services, government or other regulated environments.
***Only successful candidates will be contacted ***
