We're looking for a Tech Principal to lead technical strategy and execution on our most ambitious product work: lighthouse projects inside Thoughtworks' integral Customer Experience, Product and Design team.
Within a few weeks, there's something real that customers can actually use and react to. If you have built a career integrating strategy, architecture, AI engineering, and executive collaboration, this role offers an ideal platform to leverage those skills.
Desirability, viability and feasibility tested with real users.
We use AI across the whole lifecycle, from specification and design through build, test and operations, and you'd be one of the people defining what good looks like there.
You're one of the FDEs — the lead engineer on the pod — guiding architecture, delivery cadence, and technical commercial choices, while collaborating with the strategist and designer as equal partners rather than a downstream requirements queue. On larger programmes you'll lead across multiple pods, each running its own 3/3/3 rhythm — sometimes a mix of Product Innovation,



Modernization/Engineering and Data & AI pod types depending on the engagement shape. Lighthouse projects come in all sizes. Within Thoughtworks' Radar and CXPD's delivery standards, you make the calls: architecture patterns, stack selection, pod composition for your engagements, commercial pricing tolerances within the band, and the technical position in a pitch. This role anchors in Riyadh, working across the Kingdom's most ambitious digital bets — Vision 2030-aligned government transformation, PIF-family portfolio companies, financial services, energy, retail and public sector. Expect regulated-industry delivery, data-residency requirements under PDPL, and a client base where Arabic-language proficiency is an asset, though not a strict requirement.
Supporting the pod construct and 3/3/3 commercial arc with client leaders with a clear understanding of pricing parameters. Owning technical scope in proposals, pr

📌 Frontend Engineering Manager (España)
🏢 Thoughtworks
📍 España