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Shd | Technical Lead Engineer

Location Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City
Category
Consultancy
Working Model
Hybrid

Overview

Our client is a video streaming platform owned by the Saudi government, operating across the Middle East, North Africa, and various global locations. Launched in London in 1991, it relocated its headquarters to Dubai in 2002. 

 

We are seeking for a Technical Lead Engineer to join with our team. This role acts as the central point of excellence to define, promote, and enforce engineering governance, operational best practices, and technical standards across our client.

 

It is not about writing features or building UI — it’s about ensuring that what we build is scalable, secure, and aligned with our long-term strategy.

This includes:

  • Auditing how teams build and deploy
  • Documenting systems and processes for clarity and repeatability
  • Defining and maintaining standards
  • Driving alignment across departments with structure, metrics, and reporting

Qualifications

  • Strong background in governance, process optimization, and technical documentation
  • Experience with CI/CD, microservices, Kafka/RabbitMQ/Redis, cloud infrastructure, and security protocols
  • Excellent technical writing and architecture documentation skills
  • Solid written English communication

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Responsibilities

As a Technical Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for:

 

1. Operational Excellence & Optimization

  • Optimize processes to improve code efficiency, deployment flows, and infrastructure cost
  • Automate scale-out capabilities based on platform load and usage

2. Standards, Governance & Documentation

  • Define and maintain technical and process benchmarks for engineering teams
  • Lead documentation efforts for microservices, architecture flows, controller logic, and deployment processes
  • Establish a framework for reviewing and auditing code, pipelines, and service structure
  • Collaborate with SA/TA and others to identify gaps and improve operational maturity

3. Security, Compliance & Quality

  • Ensure compliance with data protection laws like PDPL (Saudi) and GDPR (Europe)
  • Promote security-first design: OAuth2.0, gRPC, and defensive architecture patterns
  • Maintain consistency in technical documentation as part of quality assurance

4. Reporting & Strategic Support

  • Contribute to reporting on operational health, governance maturity, cost efficiency, and documentation status
  • Support the creation of feedback loops to continuously improve delivery and infrastructure

5. Soft Skills & Influence

  • This is a cross-functional and politically sensitive role that requires empathy, clarity, and influence
  • Ability to gain buy-in from developers and leadership is key
  • Must navigate cultural resistance and act as a consistent voice for platform excellence
  • Provide continuous support and guidance to less senior colleagues through regular coaching activities and support them in fulfilling their personal development plans.

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