Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer – Enterprise Platforms & Automation

About the role

Our client in Abu Dhabi is looking for a hands‑on Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer to drive the architecture and delivery of complex enterprise platforms, automation and workflow‑driven products. The role blends technical leadership with active coding, design and production responsibilities.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end architecture, system design, APIs, data models and technical delivery.
• Design and implement complex workflows, state management and human approval processes.
• Build scalable enterprise integrations, including ERP/SAP where required.
• Lead a small engineering team while remaining hands‑on with code reviews and production support.
• Establish standards for security, testing, CI/CD, observability and reliability.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Identify and prototype opportunities to leverage AI/LLMs within enterprise workflows.

Required profile

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years in a Staff, Principal, Lead Engineer or equivalent role.
• Strong background in backend and distributed systems.
• Recent hands‑on production engineering experience.
• Experience in regulated environments such as financial services or government is a plus.

Required skills

• Security and reliability engineering.
• CI/CD pipelines and observability.
• APIs, databases and microservices.
• Cloud platforms, containers and Kubernetes.
• Enterprise integration, workflow/BPM and state‑machine design.
• ERP/SAP integration.
• Azure cloud services.
• LLM/GenAI or agentic AI in production.