Head of Engineering

6 days ago

Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Tarjama& Full time 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 per year

Job Purpose

The Head of Engineering provides strategic and operational leadership across all engineering disciplines—including software engineering, AI/ML, data infrastructure, architecture, and DevOps—to build secure, scalable, and high-performing government-grade AI systems.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

·       Define and execute the engineering vision, strategy, and long-term roadmap.

·       Build a high-performing engineering culture centered on quality, collaboration, and innovation.

·       Align engineering goals with organizational priorities and product strategy.

AI System Development

·       Oversee the development of production-grade AI pipelines, platforms, and ecosystems.

·       Ensure AI products adhere to secure-by-design and government performance standards.

·       Guide teams in building scalable architectures for RAG, LLM, and automation systems.

Engineering Management

·       Lead, scale, and mentor engineering teams across multiple technical disciplines.

·       Recruit and develop top engineering talent.

·       Establish effective team structures, workflows, and performance frameworks.

Technical Execution & Quality

·       Oversee technical architecture, system design, and operational excellence.

·       Enforce best practices in software engineering, automation, DevOps, security, and documentation.

·       Ensure system reliability through monitoring, observability, performance optimization, and incident management.

·       Define technical governance, evaluation methodologies, and AI reliability/quality standards.

·       Oversee rigorous testing, benchmarking, and compliance validation to ensure production-grade performance.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

·       Partner with product, data, AI/ML, and business stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.

·       Support technical evaluations, feasibility studies, and architectural reviews.

Qualifications & Requirements

·       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field.

· –15+ years of experience in engineering roles, including 5+ years in senior leadership positions.

·       Proven experience scaling engineering organizations and managing complex systems.

·       Strong expertise in software engineering, AI/ML environments, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps.

·       Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

·       Experience delivering enterprise or government-scale AI systems is a plus.

·       Prior work in regulated or high-security environments is a plus.

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