Engineering Manager - Digital Banking

Al Masraf is looking for an experienced and innovative Engineering Manager – Digital Banking, to join our Digital & AI team. The ideal candidate will lead high-performing engineering teams, drive digital transformation, and deliver secure, scalable, and AI-powered banking solutions across digital platforms. Main Responsibilities: Lead and scale high-performing engineering teams and pods, developing technical leaders, creating genuine ownership and building engineering culture. Set the technology direction for the Bank’s digital ecosystem across mobile, web, APIs and emerging channels, remaining close enough to architecture and critical design decisions to challenge assumptions and guide secure, scalable and differentiated solutions. Embed AI-native engineering, intelligent automation, modern platform practices and continuous delivery to materially accelerate how digital products are conceived, built and improved. Translate the Bank’s digital transformation strategy into bold, executable roadmaps and lead the portfolio from investment planning through delivery, adoption and measurable customer and business outcomes. Drive internal advocacy for the organization’s digital journey by leading conversations and organizing roadshows, showcases and engagement forums that build awareness, celebrate progress and mobilize colleagues around the digital agenda. Own delivery performance across priorities, scope, budgets, dependencies, resources, vendors, risks, releases and production readiness; enabling teams to move with speed while delivering resilient, high-quality outcomes. Champion engineering excellence and responsible innovation, using customer adoption, reliability, speed to market and business value as measures of success while embedding security, privacy and regulatory compliance by design. Qualifications, Skills & Experience: Bachelor's degree or above. Preferably in computer science or related technical field. Certification in Project Management preferred. 10+ years of experience building and scaling digital products and platforms in banking or fintech, including senior accountability for executing complex digital transformation strategies across customer journeys, channels, technology modernization and operating-model change. Deep experience across digital acquisition and onboarding, mobile and online banking, payments and transfers, cards, servicing journeys, BPM, API ecosystems and digital identity, with a strong understanding of how these capabilities combine into a coherent omnichannel proposition. Proven track record of building and leading multidisciplinary engineering and digital delivery teams, establishing clear accountability, developing technical leaders and delivering complex, large-scale platforms and transformation programmes through to production and adoption. Deep experience working in Agile, product-centric environments with cross- functional squads. Demonstrated mastery of modern mobile and web engineering, API ecosystems, cloud-native platforms, digital identity, analytics and emerging technologies, with the judgement to select and apply technologies that materially improve customer experience, resilience and speed to market. Ready to shape the future of capital markets? Apply now! Show more Show less