(Senior) Development Manager AI Products & Solutions UAE-Region
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About the Role
SAP is seeking a Senior Development Manager to lead an engineering team building AI-enabled products and platforms in Dubai. You will drive execution, delivery predictability, and team growth, managing the full development lifecycle.
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Responsibilities
- Lead an engineering team building AI enabled products and platforms
- Drive strong execution, delivery predictability, and team growth
- Own planning and delivery across the full development lifecycle
- Guide teams building scalable services, data pipelines, ML enabled applications, and LLM based features
- Ensure sound engineering around architecture, quality, observability, security, and operational readiness
- Help the team make good decisions about model integration, experimentation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and governance
- Balance innovation with business value, cost, and time to market
- Establish delivery metrics, engineering KPIs, and operational cadences
- Manage engineers across diverse skill sets including backend, frontend, data engineering, machine learning, and platform engineering
- Work with senior stakeholders to translate business goals into execution plans
Requirements
- 8 10+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or related field
- Strong software engineering foundation with ability to lead teams building scalable products, services, platforms, and AI enabled applications
- Working understanding of machine learning and generative AI concepts
- Experienced in leading delivery of AI or data intensive programs
- Strong project and program management skills
- Experience managing engineers across diverse skill sets
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
- Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, security
- Strong people leadership skills including hiring, coaching, performance management
- Fluent professional English (written and spoken)
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What You'll Build
- In this role, you'll lead an engineering team building AI enabled products and platforms while driving strong execution, delivery predictability, and team growth.
- You'll own planning and delivery across the full development lifecycle: roadmap translation, scope management, staffing, prioritization, sprint execution, release planning, risk management, dependency handling, and stakeholder communication.
- On the technology side, you'll guide teams building scalable services, data pipelines, ML enabled applications, and LLM based features, ensuring sound engineering around architecture, quality, observability, security, and operational readiness.
- You’ll help the team make good decisions about model integration, experimentation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and governance, while balancing innovation with business value, cost, and time to market.
- Your impact will be measured not just by delivery, but by the strength of the team, the quality of execution, and the adoption of AI capabilities that solve real customer problems.
What You Bring
- You bring a strong software engineering foundation with the ability to lead teams building scalable products, services, platforms, and AI enabled applications
- You have a working understanding of machine learning and generative AI concepts, including model lifecycle, LLM use cases, evaluation, deployment constraints, and production risks
- You are experienced in leading delivery of AI or data intensive programs, aligning product scope, technical dependencies, staffing plans, and execution milestones
- You bring strong project and program management skills, including roadmap planning, estimation, sprint execution, release coordination, risk management, and dependency tracking
- You have experience managing engineers across diverse skill sets, including backend, frontend, data engineering, machine learning, and platform engineering
- You are skilled at establishing delivery metrics, engineering KPIs, and operational cadences that improve execution predictability and quality
- You have a strong understanding of Agile methodologies, backlog management, prioritization, stakeholder communication, and escalation handling
- You bring practical knowledge of cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, security, and the operational needs of production AI systems
- You are able to evaluate technical trade offs, including build vs. buy, delivery speed vs. technical debt, and experimentation vs. reliability
- You demonstrate strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and building high performing teams
- You are confident working with senior stakeholders to translate business goals into execution plans, budgets, staffing decisions, and measurable outcomes
- You apply sound judgment around responsible AI, data governance, compliance, and quality standards in enterprise environments
Where you belong
- You will be part of a growing AI and industry expert team dedicated to serving customers across the United Arab Emirates.
- We are building a collaborative, high‑impact environment that brings together deep AI expertise, strong industry knowledge, and regional understanding to help customers innovate, transform, and lead in their markets.
- This team thrives on working together to turn complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions.
- You will find an environment that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning, where new ideas are encouraged and real‑world impact matters.
- This is a place for people who enjoy building something new.
- You will thrive here if you are customer‑centric, motivated by meaningful outcomes, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast‑evolving AI landscape.
- We work across boundaries, help teams make better design choices, and build foundations that let AI products scale safely and efficiently.
- We value clarity, system thinking, and practical innovation.
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