Senior Director Software Engineering

About Fanatics Momentum

Fanatics Momentum is building the UAE's leading regulated commercial gaming operator. Licensed by the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA), we operate across lottery, iGaming, sports book, and digital content, combining Momentum's regional foundation with Fanatics' global product, technology, and scale. The business is ambitious, well-resourced, and moving fast. If you want to help build a category-defining operator in one of the world's most exciting regulated gaming markets, this is the right time to join.

We're looking for a Senior Director of Software Engineering with strong technical leadership experience to grow and scale our engineering team, deliver business results, and ship high-quality software across customer-facing products and internal platforms. Your department is a sizable domain with many independent verticals, each pursuing multiple paths of tactics and strategy. Your teams will be responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the software needed to provide our customers with an industry-leading experience.

This role involves both technical leadership and people management, ensuring that our engineering team is effective, motivated, and aligned with the company's goals.

We are one team; we employ the principles of data-driven development, operational excellence, process calibration, and efficiency to deliver a stable, extensible platform ough strong fundamentals and excellence in object-oriented design, coding patterns, modern open-source frameworks, and third-party platform integrations, we can achieve our goals of rapidly delivering and innovating in this exciting new market. You will be AI-forward and able to lead the way, inspiring teams to push AI to its boundaries in modern engineering.

• Build organizations of leaders who lead, fostering an environment where leaders are stretching the boundaries of the art of the possible to solve organizationally impactful software problems
• Lead multiple senior technology and engineering leaders tasked with teams that will deliver software while adhering to and contributing to engineering best practices. These teams will evolve and create architecture and/or product solutions that are exemplary in terms of robustness, stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
• Deliver the roadmap and ensure we achieve our commercial and engineering goals
• Ensure the right people are in the right positions, actively building succession plans and creating leadership opportunities
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement, supporting our mission and advocating for the removal of bottlenecks that impact your department
• Drive others to make the business case for communications externally and speak at public events on behalf of Fanatics and at the cutting edge of technology and culture
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, inside and outside of Engineering, and collaborate with leaders to prioritize technical efforts and provide input on product features and capabilities
• Challenge the bar for operational excellence, pushing leaders to set their sights higher
• Provide clear updates (KPIs, status, metrics) to an executive audience and key stakeholders
• Own the direction of your domain and influence the direction of multiple domains, understanding the impact of decisions on the company, delegating tactics and focusing on strategy
• Use metrics and qualitative feedback to drive decisions, and understand and challenge the status quo on developer experience
• Lead other leaders to create 5-year architectural visions and/or forward-looking product solutions that test the boundaries of engineering creativity
• Mentor at all…