Tech Director (Head of Engineering) Globant — Riyadh, KSA

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (on-site). Alternative locations: Jordan, Lebanon, UAE, Egypt — with regular travel to Riyadh required.

Reports to: VP of Technology

Direct scope: 50+ engineers across back end and front end disciplines

Role type: New role | Permanent | Leadership/Strategy

About the Role

This is a senior engineering leadership position responsible for the strategic direction, delivery performance, and technical maturity of Globant's software engineering function in the MENA region. The Head of Engineering will own the engineering roadmap, drive AI adoption, establish engineering culture and standards, and lead a growing organisation of 50+ engineers across back end and front end teams.

Key Priorities

Key Responsibilities

• Set the technical vision and engineering strategy aligned with business objectives

• Lead and develop engineering managers, SMEs, and senior engineers across all disciplines

• Own engineering delivery performance, reporting, and continuous improvement

• Collaborate closely with architecture, cybersecurity, product, delivery, design, QA, data, and DevSecOps/platform disciplines to ensure alignment and cohesive outcomes across the engineering organisation

• Represent engineering in senior leadership forums and client engagements

• Manage stakeholder relationships across the organisation and with external partners

• Champion modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, and automation

• Ensure compliance with security, governance, and regulatory requirements

Technical Landscape

The role provides strategic oversight across the following technology stack. Hands-on coding is not expected, but a strong understanding of the technologies in use and the ability to engage credibly with technical teams is required.

Back End: NodeJS, Adobe Experience Manager, Apigee, RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, event-driven architecture, SQL and NoSQL databases, OAuth/JWT, message queuing and async processing.

Front End: Flutter, Svelte, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/TypeScript, Android and iOS native development, component-based architecture, micro frontend patterns, progressive web applications, accessibility (WCAG), state management.

AI & Emerging Tech: AI-assisted development tooling, Agentic AI, LLMOps, AI integration into engineering workflows, evaluation of emerging AI/ML technologies for engineering productivity.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading engineering organisations of 50+ in a Tech/SaaS environment

• Proven track record of improving delivery velocity and engineering maturity at scale

• Experience introducing AI tooling and practices into engineering teams

• Strong understanding of back end and front end technologies — able to engage credibly with engineering teams and contribute to technical discussions

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across disciplines including architecture, cybersecurity, product, delivery, design, and QA

• Experience building engineering teams across multiple geographies, ideally in the MENA region

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with senior/executive audiences

• Experience with engineering governance, standards, and platform modernisation

• Track record of building engineering culture, career frameworks, and communities of practice

Desirable

• Experience in a consulting or digital services environment

• Experience working with Saudi Arabia's digital transformation landscape (e.g. Vision 2030 aligned programmes)