Technical Architect | Abu Dhabi, UAE

Technical Architect

ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• To work with multiple teams and team's business stakeholders and deliver state of the art digital experience through resilient, robust and blazing fast Omni channel Microservice designs.

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team and others.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.
• Exert significant influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.
• Actively seek out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster.
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your team.
• Provide mentorship for all Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Seek out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability. Mentor members of other teams as needed.
• Collaborate and decide on your team's engineering work based on the organization's engineering strategy, together with your teammates and senior engineers. Sometimes involved in work on organizational engineering strategy.
• Evaluate and create new product features in collaboration with the product team.
• Regularly participate in the creation of the team roadmap and ensuing feedback. Simplify product and technical design through proactive conversations.

• Consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors.
• Understand when it is appropriate to leave comments, but bias towards self-documenting code. Understand your team's testing approach and use quality metrics to identify gaps.
• Work with your team to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid.
• Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within the scope of your domain.
• Drive monitoring work on your team based on the organization's monitoring philosophy.
• Be aware of the operational data for your team's domain and use it as a basis for driving changes to the team's services to achieve stability and performance improvements.
• Have expertise in your team's domain, including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems. Understand adjacent domains as they affect your team.
• Architect services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
• Anticipate future use cases and make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.
• Actively work with the security team, as well as your own team, to refine them.

• 10+ years of software development experience with strong java/jee/spring development frameworks.
• 3+ years of experience in designing distributed systems.
• Certification in TOGAF/Azure Solutions Architect/AWS Solutions Architect/GCP Solution Architect.
• Demonstrated implementation of Microservices, container and cloud-native application development.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift and related container platform ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of static code analysis, unit testing and test-driven development, security testing and automated test frameworks. Experience using Jenkins, SonarQube, GIT, Maven, Gradle.
• Experience with two or more application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic or WebSphere.
• Strong Agile experience working in Scrum and/or Kanban models.
• Experience with two or more database technologies such as Oracle, MySQL or Postgres, MongoDB.
• Experience working in a DevOps-focused environment previously with advanced understanding of DevOps principles as a big plus.
• Proven track record of delivering high quality and consistent systems and environments for development teams.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills.