Head Of Infrastructure And Data Platform

About The Role

Role summary:

Soar is a SAMA-regulated Saudi home-finance platform. We're looking for a hands-on leader to own all of our infrastructure, DevOps operations and data platform. You'll be accountable for reliability, secure and fast delivery to production, and a Snowflake-based data stack the business can trust. You'll report to the CTO and lead the DevOps and data engineering teams across Cairo and Riyadh.

Key responsibilities:

Infrastructure:

• Own the cloud architecture (GCP, KSA-resident production), networking, zero-trust access and cost management.
• Set and meet the SLOs for uptime, latency and recovery, and run incident response, on-call and blameless post-mortems.
• Keep infrastructure compliant with SAMA CSF, data-residency and audit requirements, working with Security and GRC.
  
  

• Own the CI/CD and deployment pipelines end to end: build, test gates, release, rollback and environment parity across dev, UAT and prod.
• Standardise infrastructure as code, Kubernetes and Cloud Run practices, secrets management and change control.
• Build observability into everything: logging, metrics, tracing and alerting that cut noise and catch real problems early.
  
  

• Own the Snowflake warehouse and the wider data infrastructure: ingestion, pipelines, modelling, orchestration and access controls.
• Deliver reliable, governed data for finance, risk, regulatory reporting and analytics, with clear data quality and lineage.
• Manage data security, PII handling, retention and residency in line with SAMA and PDPL.
  
  

• Hire, grow and lead the DevOps and data engineers, and set the roadmap, standards and budgets.
• Partner with Product Engineering, QA, Security and the business on priorities and on readiness for each go-live.
  
  

• 10+ years in infrastructure, SRE or DevOps, including 3+ years leading teams.
• Deep hands-on experience with a major cloud (GCP preferred), Kubernetes, Terraform and modern CI/CD.
• Proven ownership of production reliability for a high-availability, customer-facing platform.
• Strong experience running Snowflake or a comparable cloud warehouse, plus data pipeline tooling.
• Experience in a regulated environment such as fintech, banking or payments, with security and compliance controls.
• Clear communicator who can turn technical risk into business decisions.
  
  

• SAMA, PDPL, ISO 27001 or PCI DSS experience, and KSA data-residency setups.
• dbt, Airflow or Dagster, streaming such as Kafka or Pub/Sub, and Snowflake cost optimisation.
• Experience with zero-trust networking (e.g. Twingate), WAF/Cloud Armor and SOC integration.
• Exposure to mortgage, lending or core banking systems.
• Arabic language skills.