Data Engineering Manager II
Role Overview
The role leads a critical engineering area and is accountable for technical strategy and delivery across multiple complex, related product domains.
Lead a high-performing team of 6–10 senior engineers, potentially organized across two squads, and align team goals with broader organizational priorities.
Guide architecture for reliable, scalable, and performant systems; partner with product and business leaders on strategy and measurable impact.
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About Tamara
Tamara is a fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC, serving more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants.
The company provides financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and other sectors, and is backed by Sanabil Investments and SNB Capital, among others.
Role overview
The role leads a critical engineering area and is accountable for technical strategy and delivery across multiple complex, related product domains.
Lead a high-performing team of 6–10 senior engineers, potentially organized across two squads, and align team goals with broader organizational priorities.
Guide architecture for reliable, scalable, and performant systems; partner with product and business leaders on strategy and measurable impact.
Leadership and team development
- Set direction for senior engineers, align technology goals with product priorities, and balance long-term technical quality with short-term delivery.
- Develop direct reports and skip-levels for future leadership roles; mentor senior engineers aspiring to management and support new managers.
- Drive team structure, hiring plans, succession planning, and performance management across levels.
- Foster an inclusive environment of trust, ownership, accountability, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
Technical strategy and delivery
- Lead architecture discussions and continuously improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and technical health.
- Balance new feature delivery against technical investment.
- Own delivery plans and resource allocation for initiatives spanning teams; proactively resolve complex cross-team challenges and make strategic trade-offs.
- Communicate project status, risks, and mitigation strategies to leadership.
- Partner with product and business leadership on medium- and long-term strategy, measurable outcomes, ROI, and thoughtful experimentation.
- Coordinate with peer Engineering Managers and the architecture board to align engineering standards.
Experience and qualifications
- At least 4 years managing one or more engineering teams, with a proven record managing senior individual contributors and leading medium-to-high complexity projects.
- Demonstrated ownership of delivery spanning multiple teams or complex product domains.
- Strong modern software development background; examples include Java or Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, messaging queues, and cloud services.
- Experience leading architectural discussions and technical strategy, partnering with product managers, and aligning technology with business objectives.
- Proven ability to develop engineering talent, mentor senior engineers and aspiring managers, and resolve complex cross-team delivery challenges.
- Expertise in Agile methodologies is required; fintech or eCommerce experience is a strong plus.
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