We're Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager
Location: Dubai, UAE
Company: Teamware Solutions
Industry: Retail
Level: Senior Management
Employment Type: Full Time
About the Role
Teamware Solutions is looking for The Senior Engineering Manager Retail Technology will be responsible for driving the modernization, performance, and innovation of store applications including Store Inventory Management (SIM), Point of Sale (POS), Clienteling, and RFID-based
solutions.
This role serves as the technical and delivery leader bridging engineering excellence, business value, and next-generation retail technology. The purpose is to enable seamless in-store experiences, ensure operational reliability, and lead the transformation of legacy store systems into modern, API-driven, and AI-augmented platforms.
The incumbent will play a pivotal role in enhancing developer productivity, embedding AI and LLM capabilities across engineering workflows, and ensuring system scalability and resilience across hundreds of stores.
What You'll Do
- Lead engineering for Store Inventory Management (SIM), POS, Clienteling, and RFID applications.
- Drive the modernization roadmap for legacy store systems into cloud-native, API-first, and microservices
- architectures.
- Partner with product, business, and architecture teams to define and execute retail transformation initiatives across
- stores.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of store systems across all retail formats.
- Oversee and optimize integrations via Metl, ACE, Kong Gateway, and IBM Gateway.
- Champion engineering excellence coding standards, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevSecOps
- maturity.
- Leverage AI and LLM solutions to improve developer productivity, test coverage, and incident diagnostics.
- Ensure smooth integration of POS and SIM with upstream (RMS, RPM) and downstream (OMS, ERP, CRM) systems.
- Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams fostering innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and architecture leaders to ensure end-to-end delivery quality and engineering agility.
What We're Looking For
- 10 years of total experience in software engineering, with at least 8+ years
leading enterprise-scale retail technology programs.
- Strong hands-on or leadership background in Store Inventory Management (SIM),
Point of Sale (POS), Clienteling, and RFID ecosystems.
- Experience in implementing, customizing, or modernizing POS systems (Oracle
Xstore, Jumpmind, or similar) and integrating with ERP, OMS, and CRM platforms.
- Exposure to Oracle Retail applications such as RMS, RPM, and RESA
- Proven experience in large-scale transformation programs modernizing
monolithic store systems into microservices, APIs, or event-driven architectures.
- Proficiency in integration technologies: Metl, ACE, Kong Gateway, IBM API Gateway,
and related middleware.
- Strong understanding of system performance tuning, observability, and scalability
engineering in high-transaction retail environments.
- Working knowledge of AI and LLM technologies, with practical use cases applied in
development or quality engineering.
- Demonstrated success leading engineering, QA, and DevOps teams using agile and
outcome-based delivery frameworks.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), containerization, and
DevSecOps practices.
Why Join Teamware Solutions
- This role provides and opportunity to work with one of the largest retail groups in the Middle East
- Opportunity to shape products used by millions of customers
- High-impact, leadership-level role
- Collaborative, fast-paced, and innovation-driven culture
- Competitive compensation and growth opportunities
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