Technology Manager - Jeddah

Squadio is a Global Remote-first IT service provider headquartered in Riyadh KSA with Delivery Centers in Egypt and KSA. Our distributed teams are located in Tunisia, Egypt, KSA, Palestine, Nigeria & India. We were founded in 2011 in Riyadh, KSA, as an app development company (previously Ibtikar technologies) successfully pivoted our model to support the growing need of startups and companies seeking to hire and manage their own engineering team remotely with engineers vetted by Squadio’s talent community.

About the Role:
Squadio is currently hiring a Technology Manager for one of our leading clients in Jeddah, KSA. This is a full-time onsite role with a 12-month contract, which may be extended based on the client’s business needs.
Job Overview

• Lead, facilitate, and participate in company and team level strategy initiatives.
• Identify opportunities and risks, recommend, develop, implement and support industry-leading digital and technology solutions.
• Primary owner of operating relationships with tech partners and vendors.
• Serve as a working project manager for projects and programs.
• Directly partner with the marketing team at all levels to support the development of marketing strategies with appropriate digital capabilities as part of the coordinated plan.
• Develop and review budgets and ensure they comply with stated goals, guidelines, and objectives.
• Create business cases for investment in deep partnerships with industry vertical ISVs and drive strategic outcomes through executive engagement.
• Actively support the resolution of ambiguous, complex problems that cross organizational boundaries.
• Manage and provide direction and mentorship to a growing team.
• Oversee privacy and data governance matters.
• Develop client specific roadmaps/paths for success and business outcomes.
• The resource is expected to lead resolving any run-the-bank issues encountered in all environments, especially production.
• Conduct weekly one on one and regular team meetings.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure compliance with standards.
• System engineering skills to decompose technical solutions into effective cost models.
• Ensure that all components of the IT infrastructure are maintained appropriately.
• Build confidence and inspire support through a convincing presentation style.
• Develop and maintain standard and subscription reports for obtaining statistics and demographics from the organizations software suite.
• Requires both strategic planning and tactical execution.
• Actively develop new approaches and opportunities for expanding customer base.
• Document software policies, procedures, data standards/flows and change orders for new or revised database functions.
• Ensure hardware and software operate in conformance with specifications.