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The role combines technical and people leadership with governance across security, quality, performance, observability, and CI/CD, while driving the adoption of AI and Generative AI across customer experiences and software development. A key focus is selecting the most effective technology approach based on business and engineering needs rather than advocating a single technology stack.\nAccountabilities\nLead the implantation of mobile engineering and architecture strategy and standards across iOS, Android, and hybrid/cross-platform applications, with a focus on Ionic-Angular.\nDefine reference architectures, reusable components, SDK strategies, integration patterns, and engineering guardrails, including native versus hybrid criteria.\nDrive API-first and event-driven integration patterns, ensuring scalability, reliability, offline capabilities, accessibility, localization, analytics, and security.\nDrive AI-assisted development across requirements, design, code, test, security, release, and operations using tools such as GitHub Copilot.\nSet engineering standards based on SOLID principles, clean architecture, code reviews, static analysis, dependency management, and automated quality gates.\nEstablish effective testing, automation, performance KPIs, telemetry, and observability across mobile applications.\nGovern mobile CI/CD and DevSecOps, including automated build/testing, SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection, signing, and App Store/Google Play deployment.\nLead mobile security and privacy, including OWASP Mobile, OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect, biometrics, encryption, secure storage, device integrity, and API security.\nGovern architecture, engineering standards, technical debt, technology lifecycle, and modernization roadmaps across legacy, hybrid, native, APIs, cloud integrations, and design systems.\nProvide technical leadership across Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, Architects, Mobile Engineers, QA and DevOps, while governing vendor engineering quality, standards, and knowledge transfer.\n Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.\n7+ years of software engineering experience, working with mobile application development.\n5+ years in technical leadership, engineering management, architecture, or equivalent senior engineering responsibility.\nExperience with Swift and/or Kotlin, alongside Ionic-Angular or other hybrid mobile technologies using WebKit/WebView i.e., PhoneGap, Cordova.\nMaster’s degree in computer science, AI, Software Engineering, Technology Management, or a related discipline is desirable.\nRelevant cloud, architecture, cybersecurity, mobile, or AI certifications are advantageous.\nDemonstrated delivery of large-scale, customer-facing mobile applications.\nSignificant experience with native and hybrid/cross-platform mobile architectures.\nExperience leading multiple engineering squads or technically governing a significant engineering portfolio.\nStrong understanding of enterprise SDLC, DevSecOps, testing, security, observability, and production operations.\nPractical experience adopting AI within software products and/or the engineering lifecycle.\n Etihad Airways is more than the UAE’s national airline - we’re shaping the future of global aviation. From our hub in Abu Dhabi, we connect people across continents and cultures, while driving our “Journey 2030” ambition to double our fleet, expand our network and grow our people for a new era of excellence. Join us and become part of a vision where the world is your workplace and extraordinary experiences take flight.\nTo learn more visit www.etihad.com\nRecruitment Fraud Alert\nBeware of fraudulent job offers from individuals or organizations claiming to represent the Etihad group. We will never ask for personal information, bank details, or payment during the recruitment process. Interviews are conducted face-to-face or via video/telephone before any formal offer. 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