Deployment Lead - Software Platform UAE

The role

You will own a partnership built on a data platform from strategy to delivery. You will embed with the customer to identify AI use cases and coordinate a team of Forward Deployed Software Engineers.

What you will do

• Own the project partnership end-to-end
• Define and own the multi-year roadmap for the partnership
• Run joint governance with the customer
• Coordinate development across use cases
• Work with the customer's IT teams to unblock data access
• Meet the customer's operational teams to understand pain points
• Analyze operational data in the project platform
• Define use case deliverables and requirements with the customer-side project manager
• Feed learnings back to the Product and R&D teams

Required qualifications

• A product mindset
• Project leadership track record in fast-paced environments
• Forward-deployed experience navigating large organizations
• An analytical and engineering mindset
• Self-starter with a high degree of autonomy
• Humility
• Frequent on-site presence with the customer
• Proficiency in English is mandatory

Nice to have

• Experience in defense, public sector, or other large regulated organizations
• Experience delivering AI or data-platform projects with a customer
• Prior experience coordinating software or data engineers

About the company

Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. The company is expanding its teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.