CONTEXT

As part of a strategic international project, we are looking for a digital Technical Lead based in Qatar full-time (12 months initial engagement).You will play a dual role as both the technical lead and the on-site operational liaison between the client and your colleagues in France..

This role is critical to ensuring the successful delivery of cutting-edge digital solutions, maintaining technical excellence, and enabling effective collaboration between client and delivery Teams.

You’ll be our company’s technical ambassador on-site, promoting best practices, ensuring delivery consistency, and facilitating delivery across all stakeholders.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Project delivery :

• Understand the client’s business issues and needs, and translate them into technical requirements.

• Specify the technical solution (architecture, technical stack, etc.) and explain technical options and their impacts to stakeholders to guide and facilitate decision-making.

• Identify all tasks to be carried out and related prerequisites, organize and sequence work, estimate workload and highlight the critical path.

• Propose alternative options when needed, to manage difficulties encountered and ensure timely and quality delivery.

• Coordinate the work of the development team, provide technical coaching and methodological support to developers and guarantee code quality.

• Act as the privileged point of contact of the development team and ensure smooth interactions with all technical contributors (Architect, Data Scientist, DevOps, UX/UI) and delivery management roles in the agile environment (PO / PPO / Scrum master).

• Contribute to development activities and code review.

Multi-site communication & coordination :

• Liaising between local teams of the client in Qatar and technical team in France.

• Report on progress (main achievements, issues, risks, and planning updates).

Client engagement :

• Be the local face of the company for clients and partners.

• Promote and embody our company’s working methods, project culture, and values.

• Identify new needs.

TEAM AND ONBOARDING

You will collaborate closely with the project manager based in France, as well as with all project teams located in both France and Qatar (including front-end and back-end developers, UX/UI designers, data scientists, etc.).

To ensure a smooth integration, an initial onboarding period of several weeks in France will be required. This phase will allow you to gain a solid understanding of our business, culture, and working methods.

Following this onboarding, the assignment will continue on-site in Qatar.

You enjoy challenges and adventure and are seeking an opportunity in a dynamic company working in an innovative and demanding industrial context. You are autonomous and flexible, eager to learn as much as to do, and know how to communicate your ideas.

We’re seeking a talented professional with a background in Engineering or Sciences (from a Grande École, Master’s degree, or equivalent), and 5 to 12 years of successful experience.

Technical skills :

• Advanced knowledge of the python programming language and its ecosystem. Knowledge of javascript & React is a plus.

• Deep understanding of the main Python web Frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Flask, …) and related technologies (Celery, Airflow, Redis, PostgreSQL).

• DevOps spirit and understanding of  the challenges and technologies in deploying web applications, either cloud or on-premises :

• Knowledge of the main cloud providers and understanding of their main differences, ability to design architectures leveraging their specificities.

• Familiarity with devops cloud tooling and IaC technologies (terraform. helm, cloud sdks).

• Knowledge of main Kubernetes concepts.

• Ability to lead technical streams :

• dynamically adapt to project context evolution, quickly identify the right balance between delivering applications that are either complex, fast, scalable or robust based on challenging timelines.

• Choose the right project & development practices to deliver on project goals.

Personal qualities :

• Business-value oriented.

• Ability to create a positive and team-oriented work environment.

• At ease in interpersonal interactions, with multi-disciplinary profiles.

• Clear and effective communication skills in English, with the ability to deliver impactful presentations.

• Proactive mindset, with the ability to take initiative and put forward ideas.

• Willing to learn and challenge yourself and our clients, with the ability to adapt to different work environments and culture.

Candidates with the following experience will be considered in priority :

• Exposure to the client on a daily basis in the context of digital services.

• Exposure to industrial engineering and/or industrial data.

• HR phone interview

• Interview with technical team, aiming at testing your fit to the specific job,

• Interview with one or several founders to validate the application