Technical Architect

Technical Architect

Technical Architect

**Role: Technical Architect**

**Location: Abu Dhabi**

**Role Purpose**:

- 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.

**Key Accountabilities of the role**:

- 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 mentorships 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 mínimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
- Mentors their teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner.





Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability. Mentors' members of other teams as needed.
- Collaborates and decides on their team's engineering work based on organization's engineering strategy, together with their teammates and senior engineers. Sometimes involved in work on organizational engineering strategy.
- Evaluates and creates new product features in collaboration with the product team.
- Regularly participates in the creation of the team roadmap and ensuing feedback. Simplifies product and technical design through proactive conversations.

**Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge, Technical Competencies Required for this role**:

- Consistently writes production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers,





and accounts for edge cases and errors.
- Understands when it is appropriate to leave comments, but biases towards self-documenting code. Understands their team's testing approach and uses quality metrics to identify gaps.
- Works with their 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 their domain.
- Drives monitoring work on their team based on the organization's monitoring philosophy.
- Is aware of the operational data for their team's domain and uses it as a basis for driving changes to the team's services to achieve stability and performance improvements.
- Has expertise in their team's domain,





including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems. Understands adjacent domains as they affect their team.
- Architects' services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
- Anticipates future use cases and makes design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.
- Actively works with the security team, as well as their own team, to refine them.

**Previous experience**:

- 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.






- 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.
- 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.

Job ID 300002254159839

▶️ Technical Architect
🖊️ ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
📍 Abu Dhabi