Lead Technology Engineer - Network

COMPANY INTRODUCTION

Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 20 million customers. The Emirates NBD Group has a total of 853 branches and 4,213 ATMs / SDMs. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of USD 3.89 billion.

At the bank, we serve our customers and help them realise their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.

We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With close to half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.

UNIT PURPOSE

Emirates NBD is seeking a highly innovative and transformative delivery professionals to assume responsibility for developing the people, process and technology to compete on the global stage.

The role will reside in the Group IT division. Group IT drives and delivers the IT solutions, that powers success across multiple international geographies and nationally within the UAE.

The Group IT - Technology Platforms develops and supports a comprehensive catalogue of technology services and platforms. The success of the team is measured through service availability, high velocity delivery of new and enhanced IT services that enable and empower the business and through the successful balancing of cost, capability development, risk and overall service performance.

As part of Group IT and the Transformation program, our focus is on improving effectiveness and efficiency to our customers and partners within Emirates NBD.

JOB PURPOSE

Group IT has a matrix management structure. The Lead Technology Engineer role will have line management and reporting into the VP Technology Chapter but will be assigned to a Platform squad for task management and prioritization. He / She will implement the design and build of the platform along with all associated components from inception to maturity of the running environment over time. The role will be responsible for driving change and delivering new technology into the Bank by onboarding customers and applications to the Platform via self-service and automation.

The Lead Technology Engineer will work closely with other Platform and Product teams in educating them on the new Platform, services and features to ensure any transition and consumption is optimal. Teams work using Agile + DevOps + Product Management methodologies, delivering work packages based on the priority in the backlog.

We are looking for a Lead Technology Engineer to build and maintain ENBD SDN-Fabric network using on Enterprise Sonic and Legacy networking. Our stack is Cisco, Sonic and Cumulus.

Ideally, he / she should have a track record of building Sonic Network for enterprise organization and describe in detail how it was built, or an extensive network administration experience as well as experience in building SDN-Fabric Networks using automation.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead Technology Engineering

• An expert in Compute, Networks, Database, Cloud or associated DevOps
• Strong technical expertise with a focus on development and coding
• Good infrastructure and security knowledge
• Facilitating getting the work done across the parallel development teams
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Clear internal and external communication, improving transparency across teams and stakeholders
• Ability to work at an abstract level and continuously ‘pivot’ to arrive at the best solution for the end customer
• Energized by complex problem solving and ability to innovate new solutions
• Ability to work under pressure, manage client expectations

Relationship Management

Delivery Experience

KEY REQUIREMENTS

Education

Experiences

Technical Skills

Soft Skills

WHY JOIN US ?

We aspire to be an employee’s employer of choice. We believe, we can help you realize your true potential by providing the right opportunities. At ENBD we are reimagining the future of work so that you can unlock your potential, every day we want to ensure, every employee can exceed in the future of work by upskilling, building new digital skills and knowledge. Our goal is to empower our employees to build a career experiences and skills they need in the future and that will produce a great outcome for our bank as well, we want our employees no matter their background, location, preferences to feel engaged to one ENBD team.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. ENBD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, however due to high volume of applicants, only SHORTLISTED candidates will be contacted.