Position Vacant For Technical Manager in Emirates, Dubai, UAE (Dec-2023)

Emirates invites applications for Technical Manager in Dubai, UAE (Dec-2023)

Job Title:

Technical Manager

Job Purpose:

The Technical Manager – Integration will manage a high-performance product-oriented Integration team of software and technical engineers whose mission is to operate and develop the integration platforms in terms of features, performance, reliability and ease of use, in a mission-critical hybrid multi-cloud environment.

Manage the technical lifecycle of the relevant technologies and services under the technical manager responsibilities. Design, engineer, plan, implement, operate and support each technology, ensuring they meet business requirements and comply with corporate policy and standards.

Provide documented operational processes and procedures for 1st and 2nd level operational support groups, as well as act as a centre of excellence and 3rd level support for the respective technologies.

Ensure the respective technologies have optimum capacity and availability to meet the existing and future needs of the business. Manage and minimize risks within the respective technologies.

Job Outline:

Define KPIs for the teams in line with departmental goals and objectives. Consistently meet or exceed agreed KPIS. Ensure all communications, reports and updates are accurate and consistently delivered in a timely manner.
Ensure technologies comply with corporate security policies and procedures and all audit observations, risks and/or exceptions are identified and positively managed. Ensure all security and other operating system patches are promptly identified, reviewed, and assessed for their impact on the relevant environment and accordingly implemented on the relevant technologies.
Responsible for providing 3rd level support for the relevant technology environment to the Incident and the Problem Management teams ensuring efficient root cause analysis is provided and avoiding reoccurrence of incidents.
Collaborate closely with all IT teams to deliver products and services that contribute to the organization growth.
Responsible for setting clear and consistent performance objectives, implementing performance management and development plans to ensure standards of performance and productivity are achieved and maintained enabling a high performance culture. Manage the technical expertise within the team so that resources are appropriately and effectively allocated. Assign suitably qualified resources to projects to support the ongoing IT work programme.
Identify and develop needed products or services by creating Business Cases, conducting RFTs and coordinating with various stakeholders inside IT as well as other departments.
Develop and effectively manage the team and technology budgets. Manage total cost of ownership of products and services within the respective technologies ensuring costs are identified, defined and reported, to enable businesses to make informed financial decisions, positively contribute to the process of cost control and provide financial transparency.
Work closely with teams responsible for vendor management and vendor contract negotiations, to ensure SLAs are monitored and managed and contracts are seen to be value for money.
Provide technical consultancy and guidance to the team members and technical manager of other technologies, enterprise architects, and project teams. Providing technical expertise to the enterprise architecture team for defining architecture strategy and standards and design the relevant technologies accordingly.
Identify areas of improvement in existing technologies including end of life technology replacement and evaluation of new relevant technologies within the relevant environment in accordance with industry trends. Drive projects through assigned project managers.

Qualifications & Experience:

Information Technology. Other : 8+ Years

Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)

Knowledge/skills:

Event Driven Architecture
Service Oriented Architecture
Integration Platform as Service (IPaaS)
ETL Platforms
API Management Gateway
Solace PubSub+
APIGEE
Informatica
TIBCO Business Works

Salary & Benefits:

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers