Location – Dubai, UAE

Salary – TBC

Preferred Skills:

• Software development qualifications are an advantage, especially in Java and/or AWS
• Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL
• Amazon Web Services
• Experience managing multi-cultural outsource teams

Responsibilities:

Architectural Oversight

• Ensure on-going development adheres to established architecture best-practices and existing methodologies

Testing Infrastructure Setup

• The company has little automated testing but this has been recognised as an area that would offer benefit as systems grow both in breadth and depth. We have an outsource resource capable of doing the necessary work but the scope of work needs to be defined and prioritised.

Management of Outsource Teams

• An increasing amount of the company development is being done by outsourced teams both in Dubai and abroard. Ongoing allocation and prioritisation of work is needed to make the most of these teams and ensure they are able to work efficiently and productively.

General IT Management

• Assist in planning the future of the company IT. Decisions such as whether to recruit additional in-house staff or continue with outsourcing to 3rd party organisations, as well as the implementation of such decisions. Working with business development and sales staff to scope and prioritise future projects to ensure they’ll offer maximum value to the company as it grows internationally.

About the Role:

IT Manager to oversee ongoing IT development projects and IT operations. The role will include a mix of architectural oversight and management of outsource teams across a range of technologies. While much of the company has been developed in a Java / Linux environment running on AWS servers there is a growing amount of C# code running on windows servers being developed by outsource teams.