Summary
Takamol Holding is seeking a Technical Delivery Director in Riyadh to lead multiple delivery tracks and manage their priorities, dependencies, budgets, risks, and outcomes. The role oversees track leads and delivery staff, vendors and contractors, delivery standards, releases, and executive reporting. Applicants should have 10+ years in technology, including multi-team delivery leadership and a hands-on engineering background, with experience in budgets, contracts, and managed services. Clear English communication is required; Arabic is an advantage.
The posting
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• Lead multiple concurrent delivery tracks, each with its own lead, and be accountable for their combined outcomes, dependencies, and priorities.
• Own delivery governance: planning, milestones, resource allocation, risk and issue management, and executive-level reporting on status, risks, and financial exposure.
• Manage and develop the track leads and delivery staff: performance, capability, workload, and succession.
• Own vendor and contractor delivery: scope, performance, escalations, renewals, and transitions.
• Set and enforce engineering and delivery standards, including architecture governance, quality gates, release management, and documentation.
• Lead the stabilisation and modernisation of existing systems, including legacy platforms with varied technology stacks.
• Oversee release and change management across tracks, ensuring coordinated, low-risk deployments to production.
• Manage delivery budgets and forecasts, and ensure spend is tracked against plan.
• Establish delivery metrics and reporting (velocity, quality, incident trends, SLA adherence) and use them to drive decisions.
• Maintain effective working relationships with client stakeholders and ensure delivery commitments are clearly communicated and met.
• Identify and manage delivery, technical, security, and compliance risk.
• Ensure delivery practices align with information security, data protection, and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery maturity, automation, and team capability.
• 10+ years in technology, including several years leading multi-track or multi-team delivery.
• A hands-on engineering background (software development, architecture, platform engineering) with credible technical judgement across modern and legacy stacks.
• Proven experience managing employees, contractors, and vendors within a single delivery organization.
• Strong vendor and contract management experience, including performance management and transition of outsourced services.
• Experience managing delivery budgets and reporting to executive stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of agile and hybrid delivery methods, and the judgement to apply the right approach per track.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, DevOps practices, ITSM frameworks, and modern quality engineering.
• Working knowledge of enterprise IT cybersecurity and regulatory requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to handle conflict constructively.
• Decisive under pressure, with a track record of resolving delivery blockers and escalations quickly.
• Clear, direct communicator in English; Arabic is an advantage.
• Experience in managed service or outsourced delivery models.
• Background in digital products or customer-facing platforms.
• Exposure to data platforms or AI initiatives.
• Relevant certifications (e.g. PMP, SAFE, ITIL, or a cloud provider certification).