Deployment Lead - Software Platform UAE
Core
Lead a forward-deployed partnership to deliver AI use cases and mission-critical defense systems for allied forces, embedding with customer organizations to define requirements and coordinate engineering delivery.
Role type
Senior program lead (forward-deployed)
Builds
AI use cases and mission-critical defense systems
Domain
Defense / Autonomous systems / AI
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
project leadership, stakeholder management, requirements definition, roadmap planning, cross-functional coordination, data analysis, product mindset, autonomy
Preferred skills
defense or public sector experience, AI or data-platform delivery experience, software engineering coordination
Technologies
AI, data platforms
Responsibilities
Own the project partnership end-to-end from strategy to delivery; Define and own the multi-year roadmap for the partnership; Run joint governance with the customer including steering committees; Coordinate development across use cases by prioritizing work and removing blockers; Work with customer IT teams to unblock data access and technical dependencies; Meet with operational teams to understand pain points and refine value propositions; Analyze operational data to understand problems before building; Define use case deliverables and requirements with customer-side project managers; Feed learnings back to Product and R&D teams to shape the platform.
