The role of the CoE (Center of Engineering) Lead is to build and support centre of engineering. Main responsibility areas to be covered by CoE Lead are:
- oversee the engineering team and ensure that the technical objectives and goals of the organization are met
- driving talent growth in organization
maintain high standards of quality for the products or services produced by the engineering team.
Responsibilities- Team management: The CoE Lead is responsible for managing the engineering team and ensuring that team members are being utilized effectively and efficiently. This includes providing leadership, guidance, and support to the team to help them achieve their goals.
- Staffing strategies: Develop and implement staffing strategies, processes, and procedures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering team. This includes creating a CoE structure with the required skills to deliver projects for both internal and external customers.
- Skill distribution: Support skills distribution in the CoE to ensure a balance of freshers, juniors, middles, and senior-level engineers. This helps to promote cross-skilling and collaboration within the team.
- Performance management: The CoE Lead is responsible for conducting performance reviews with the engineering team to ensure that team members are meeting their targets and to identify areas for improvement.
- Talent development: Develop and implement strategies for cross-skilling and talent attraction and create and support training and mentoring strategies to promote the professional growth of team members.
Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams, such as HR, procurement, and facilities, to implement activities related to the CoE and ensure that the team has the necessary resources to deliver projects effectively.
Qualifications- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems or a related field.
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in technology, including project delivery or product build, with experience in team staffing. Additionally, 5+ years of experience in team/department management of 50+ people with experience in building cross-functional teams.
- Communication skills: Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential for this role, as the CoE Lead will be responsible for communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Leadership skills: Strong leadership skills are required to manage and motivate a team of engineers and technical professionals towards achieving their goals.
- Software development lifecycle: Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle is required, including different models of team organization such as agile, waterfall, and mixed.
- Collaboration tools: Experience with collaboration tools such as Microsoft Office 365, JIRA, Confluence, and GIT is essential for this role.
- Payment's domain: Basic experience in the payment's domain is preferred but not mandatory.
- Technical expertise: The CoE Lead should have experience and background in one or several areas, such as Java, Golang, Android, Base24, Way4 Switch, Postilion, Testing and test automation, Solution Design and Architecture for payment systems, Talend, Python, Control-M, Infrastructure, Card Management Systems, Middleware, Cloud, Falcon, PRM, Loyalty, SMS, Qlik, etc.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems or related field
- 10+ years of experience in technology including project delivery or product build and team staffing
- 5+ years of team/department management of 50+ people and building cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong leadership skills to manage and motivate engineering teams
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle (agile, waterfall, mixed)
- Experience with collaboration tools: Microsoft Office 365, JIRA, Confluence, GIT
- Basic experience in the payments domain
- Technical experience in one or more: Java, Golang, Android, Base24, Way4 Switch, Postilion, testing and test automation, solution design and architecture for payment systems, Talend, Python, Control-M, infrastructure, card management systems, middleware, cloud, Falcon, PRM, Loyalty, SMS, Qlik
Network International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Pay is considered decent in some roles and is often paired with bonuses. Phrases like 'salary plus bonuses' indicate variable pay is a meaningful component for certain positions.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage extends to employees, spouses, and up to three children, alongside life insurance. This breadth signals a robust healthcare baseline for the region.
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Retirement Support — Retirement and termination benefits align with UAE/GCC norms, including pension contributions for nationals and end‑of‑service gratuity for expatriates. Such provisions indicate structured, region‑appropriate retirement support.
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What We Do
Over the past 30 years, we have built a business based on long-standing and trusted relationships with many of the leading merchants, financial institutions and payment networks operating in the Middle East and Africa. Such relationships are based on our comprehensive capabilities, scale, local presence in the multiple markets in which we operate, alongside our trusted reputation. This gives us significant scale and leadership in the region, where we operate in more than 50 countries, serve over 130,000 merchants and 250 financial institutions and fintech customers, whilst managing more than 16 million customer credentials. We have a diversified business model and operate across the entire consumer payments value chain. We do this with a growth-focused strategy through two business lines: • That enables our merchant customers to ‘take payments’, by providing them with various payment acceptance methods, both online and offline. • Which supports our financial institution, fintech and other payment issuing institution customers in enabling consumers ‘make payments’, by managing and processing their consumer payment credentials and transactions.
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