AI Delivery lead

Role overview

Work arrangement

• Full-time role on site in Dubai.
• The description states a 12-month contract and immediate start.

What you will do

• Own plans, budgets, and milestones across parallel workstreams with fixed deadlines.
• Lead weekly reporting and client steering meetings; manage risks, issues, changes, and acceptance sign-offs.
• Allocate and track team-member FTE by workstream and month, and arrange approved absence cover.
• Ensure AI solutions meet data residency, security, responsible-AI, and audit-trail governance requirements.
• Run post-launch managed operations, including service levels, incidents, and change requests.
• Lead knowledge transfer so clients can run the solutions themselves.

Must-have qualifications

• Significant delivery or project leadership experience on AI, automation, or data platforms that reached production.
• Experience delivering for large UAE organizations; regulated-sector delivery is ideal.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365 delivery.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or an agile certification such as SAFe or PSM, plus evidence of running hybrid plans.
• Fluent English and confidence with senior client stakeholders.
• Already present in the UAE and available to start immediately, with five days’ notice.

Nice to have

• Arabic.
• Experience in regulated industries such as energy, utilities, or financial services.
• Knowledge of UAE data-protection and information-security standards.