Moodle / LMS Technical Lead
Experience: 6+ years of relevant experience, including 2+ years in a technical lead capacity.
Location: UAE
Position Summary
We are looking for an experienced Moodle / LMS Technical Lead to lead the architecture, development, integration, and lifecycle management of a large-scale learning management platform.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining Moodle platform engineering, LMS architecture, software development, integrations, and team leadership.
Experience delivering LMS solutions within academic, education, training, or large-scale learning environments is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Moodle/LMS architecture, configuration, customization, and implementation.
- Lead custom Moodle plugin and module development.
- Provide technical leadership, code reviews, mentoring, and technical support to software engineers.
- Design and manage integrations with identity platforms, learning systems, content platforms, and enterprise applications.
- Implement and support learning standards including LTI, SCORM, and xAPI.
- Support learning workflows including course management, enrollment, assessments, grading, learning records, and reporting.
- Manage LMS environments, CI/CD pipelines, releases, patches, and version upgrades.
- Ensure platform performance, scalability, availability, security, caching, and capacity planning.
- Define LMS technical standards, development practices, code-review processes, and governance.
- Troubleshoot complex L3 platform and integration issues and coordinate patches and technical fixes.
- Work closely with learning, functional, business, and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable LMS solutions.
- Manage technical priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery activities.
- Mentor engineering team members and promote strong development, quality, and engineering practices.
Technical Requirements
Strong hands-on knowledge and experience in:
- Moodle core and plugin architecture
- PHP development
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MariaDB
- LTI, SCORM, and xAPI
- SAML, OAuth, LDAP, and SSO
- Linux-based hosting environments
- APIs and enterprise system integrations
- LMS integration patterns and data synchronization
- CI/CD and release management
- Moodle caching and performance tuning
- Scalability, availability, and capacity planning
- Application security and access controls
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Typically 6+ years of experience in Moodle/LMS platform engineering, development, or implementation.
- Minimum 2+ years in a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or similar technical leadership role.
- Strong hands-on experience with Moodle development, customization, plugins, integrations, and upgrades.
- Experience implementing or supporting LMS solutions within education, academic, training, or complex learning environments.
- Good understanding of course structures, enrollment, assessments, grading, learning content, and reporting workflows.
- Experience with LMS integration standards including LTI, SCORM, and xAPI.
- Experience integrating LMS platforms with identity, content, data, and enterprise systems.
- Experience with multi-organization, multi-site, or complex Moodle/LMS deployments.
- Strong programming, debugging, and technical problem-solving skills.
- Understanding of platform governance, security, access control, and data-isolation requirements.
- Previous experience mentoring or technically leading software engineering teams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills. Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in a relevant technical field.
- Relevant Moodle, LMS, Linux, cloud, or software engineering certifications.
- Experience delivering large-scale learning platforms or enterprise applications.
- Previous experience supporting academic or education-focused learning environments is an advantage.
Key Skills
Moodle | LMS | PHP | Moodle Plugin Development | LMS Architecture | LTI | SCORM | xAPI | SSO | SAML | OAuth | LDAP | Linux | MySQL | PostgreSQL | MariaDB | API Integration | CI/CD | Performance Tuning | Technical Leadership
