Architect- CIB Platforms

First Abu Dhabi Bank; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution seeks an experienced IT professional to oversee application features and architecture. This full-time role requires 10-15 years in IT, with practical design or architecture experience. The ideal candidate will coordinate Agile Sprint Planning, ensure adherence to software development life cycle procedures, and mentor team members. Candidates should have strong capabilities in modern programming languages such as Python and a deep understanding of architecture patterns, including Microservices and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years overall experience in IT.
• 2-5 years experience in practical design or architecture.
• Ability to translate requirements into service architecture.
• Good understanding of software stack patterns and best practices.
• Experience with application security best practices.
• Proficient in modern languages and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with stakeholders to identify new functionality.
• Coordinate Agile Sprint Planning with Product Owner.
• Address issues in software components and infrastructure.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC procedures.
• Facilitate onboarding of new team members.
• Share knowledge through code reviews.

Skills

IT engineering

Solutions architecture

Agile practices

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Microservices

Python

Cloud platforms

Job description

Job Purpose

• Liase with business and technical stakeholders to identify new functionality that should be implemented by the domain/service/application/feature.

Generic Accountability

• Exploring Technical upgrade road map based on business domain requirement technical innovation to ease the development design process incident handling process
• Share knowledge through Code Reviews andCommunities of Practise opportunities across the Service
• Proactively address issues discovered in the software components infrastructure and scripts in the various environments
• Ensure that SDLC procedures defined for service within the domain/service/application/feature are followed.
• Ensure that all performance and career-based activities conversations and artifacts are prepared together with the individuals such as; Development Plan
• Co-ordinate with Product owner/ Business analyst for Agile Sprint Planning
• Taking initiative in innovation bringing new tools and technology to make process easy mentoring
• Technical team on new tools and technologies

Job Context

Specific Accountability

• Owner of an application or a feature within the application
• Defines and communicates a shared technical and architectural vision (including infra)
• Consult with the Enteprise Architecture practice to ensure that the service is aligned with FAB architectural patterns
• Ensure that SDLC procedures defined for Requirements and Solution Design within the domain/service/application/feature are followed.
• Document qualityprocedures for the service
• Ensure that talent is continual brought into the team through facilitating interviewing new team members including on boarding
• Ensure that all performance and career based activities conversations and artefacts are prepared together with the individuals such as; Development Plan
• Share knowledge through Code Reviews andCommunities of Practise opportunities across the Service

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Qualifications

• 10-15 years overall experience in IT starting with the hands-on engineering positions
• 2-5 years experience doing practical design or architecture within the specialization (solutions infrastructure network security etc.)
• Practical experience and deep understanding of technology in the area of specialization software stack patterns and best practices
• Knowledge and experience in requirements traceability throughout the design phase including functional and non-functional requirements
• Design patterns and Agile practises
• Ability and experience in translating functional and non-functional requirements into solution/feature/component design and service architecture
• Understands how the business structures and functions in FAB relate to the nature of the service
• Can create a high-level and low-level design (functional and non-functional) of a single or a small collection of components or a small end-to-end service
• Has good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and ensures that SDLC procedures defined for service or application are followed
• Conducts / participates in code reviews identifies bug root causes and finds a workable solution
• Participates in Communities
• Proactively addresses issues discovered in the software components infrastructure and scripts in the various environments
• Should be aware of Application security best practise available in the market
• Should have sound understanding in evolving technologies like AI Data Science and should be able to co-ordinate with core teams in FAB for getting task done specific to project requirement
• Sound understanding in modern languages Python and other scripting languages and related frameworks .
• Sound understanding of Microservices & understanding in DevOps Docker and K8s Data pipeline and cloud platforms Event Driven architectureKafka EMQ like AWS etc

Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Full-time