Director - Engineering

About the role

For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories.

What you'll do

• Lead the Software Engineering organization across ecommerce, mobile, APIs and integration, cloud, reliability, security, and quality engineering
• Set the strategic engineering direction for the Engineering domain, defining multi-year platform roadmaps across digital commerce, mobile, retail supply chain, data
• Govern API-first design standards, and cloud-native engineering practices across distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture
• Partner with Omnichannel, Corporate Technology, and Information Security to align engineering priorities, operating rhythms, and delivery standards across customer
• Lead engineering excellence across the full SDLC, governing secure coding, test automation, CI/CD, and observability to ensure quality, security

What you need

• AWS
• Microservices
• Kubernetes
• Test automation
• CI/CD
• LLMs
• Any graduate

Good to have

• GCP
• React Native
• Learning and development
• Azure
• Terraform
• Shopify