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.