Principal Software Engineer - ERP Cloud Data Migration

Job Purpose

At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai; and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers Fly Better.

Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, we’re always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer – ERP Cloud Data Migration to design, implement, and operate resilient data migration strategies using cloud and hybrid capabilities as part of a major Cloud ERP transformation and its ongoing service operations.

This is a 36-month fixed-term contract based in Dubai, with 5 days per week in the office.

As Principal Software Engineer – ERP Cloud Data Migration, you will take end to end accountability for defining and governing the end to end data migration strategy across multiple source systems and entities, ensuring data accuracy, control, and business continuity during the transition to a single global ERP platform. You will engage with internal and external stakeholders, lead technical design reviews, and ensure production grade migration outcomes aligned to corporate standards and technology strategy.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the technical design, development and deployment of complex software solutions across teams. Carry out effective technical design reviews to ensure that the right architecture patterns are used by engineering teams.
• Champion development of best engineering practices and modernization techniques including process automation, lean software development, built-in-quality, test driven development, agile practices, optimal pairing strategies and timely root cause analysis and blameless incident post-mortems. Support defining and refining the software engineering playbooks for use by relevant people in Technology.
• Provide technical leadership and partner with cross-functional teams during discovery phase and in the development of high level design of medium to large projects.
• Drive proof-of-concepts and implement prototypes to validate ideas. Investigate, debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions.
• Identify and develop framework, tools and practices to improve delivery quality of technology solutions and productivity of engineers.
• Responsible for the measurement and monitoring of engineering metrics that enable agility, scalability, data quality and reliability of technology solutions across the enterprise.
• Contribute to the creation of world class engineering practices, play books and artefacts required to drive technical career of software engineers in line with the software engineering strategy.
• Support and guide the team of engineers in working autonomously in multi-disciplinary release trains.
• Ensure optimal use of enterprise application platforms, tools and libraries in line with the approved technology architecture and associated Software Vendors.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of interdependences and limitations within assigned technology area and solution operational context.
• Provide leadership, guidance and ongoing engagement with technical teams in the effective technical documentation of developed software.
• Manage multiple assigned teams, with accountability for hiring top talent, define development goals, manage performance, mentor and coach.
• Guide and support software engineering team definition decisions and staff movements according to program requirements, staff capability and development.

Qualification

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in Information Technology, including engineering and operating enterprise‑grade cloud and/or hybrid infrastructure in a 24/7 environment.
• Ability to define and own an end to end data migration strategy for large scale ERP consolidation programmes.
• Strong experience implementing and executing migration architectures covering extraction, transformation, validation, loading, and reconciliation.
• Expertise in phased migration approaches (trial loads, dress rehearsals, cutover loads) across multiple deliveries and waves.
• Deep understanding of enterprise data domains, including Master data, Transactional data and Reference/Configuration data.
• Experience in establishing data quality standards and acceptance criteria for migration.
• Experience driving data cleansing, de duplication, enrichment, and standardisation across entities.
• Experience designing repeatable, automated migration pipelines for trial and production loads.
• Ability to build reconciliation, validation, and control reports to prove completeness and accuracy.
• Understanding of performance tuning and volume handling for large data sets during migration windows.
• Experience defining fallback, rollback, and contingency strategies.
• Ability to manage entity specific constraints while enforcing global standards.
• Experience in stakeholder management with global business teams, finance, and local IT.
• Ability to challenge vendor assumptions and validate migration approaches independently.Leadership Role: Yes.

Salary & benefits

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax‑free salary, along with travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world. This role also offers an excellent leave and healthcare package, transport benefits, life insurance, and more.

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