Technical Architect

ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 391,000 - 558,000; Full time

Job summary

ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank is seeking a Technical Architect to lead multi-team efforts in delivering robust omni-channel microservice designs from Abu Dhabi. You will set technical direction, promote best practices, and mentor engineers across the squad.

You will engage with stakeholders, define feature roadmaps, and ensure scalable, secure, and high-performance services while maintaining quality standards and fostering a culture of innovation.

Qualifications

• Writes production-ready code with good testability and clear edge-case handling.
• Understands testing approaches and recommends solutions aligned with testing pyramids.

Responsibilities

• Advocate improvements to product quality, security, and performance across teams.
• Solve high-scope, complex technical problems for the team.
• Influence long-range goals and objectives of the team.
• Maintain and promote internal standards for style, maintainability and best practices.
• Drive innovation and tackle complex problems to enable faster iteration.
• Mentor engineers to grow their technical responsibilities and reduce blockers.
• Collaborate with product teams to define features and roadmap.
• Engage with customers and stakeholders as a technical spokesperson for the team.
• Ship large features with minimal guidance and collaborate on bigger projects.

Skills

Production-ready code

Testing strategy

System debugging

Monitoring & instrumentation

Domain expertise

Software architecture design

Future-proof design

Tools

Architectural patterns

Job description

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.
• Solvetechnicalproblemsofthehighestscopeandcomplexityfor yourteam.
• Exert significant influence on the overall objectives and long- range goals of yourteam.
• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standardsforstyle,maintainability,andbestpracticesforahigh- scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through codereview.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.
• Activelyseekoutdifficultimpedimentstoourefficiencyasateam ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iteratefaster
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of yourteam.
• ProvidementorshipsforallEngineersonyourteamtohelpthem grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to theirautonomy.
• Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on largerprojects.
• 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 asneeded.
• Collaboratesanddecidesontheirteam'sengineeringworkbased on organization's engineering strategy, together with their teammatesandseniorengineers.Sometimesinvolvedinworkon organizational engineeringstrategy.
• Evaluatesandcreatesnewproductfeaturesincollaborationwith the product team. Regularly participates in the creation of the team roadmap and ensuing feedback. Simplifies product and technical design through proactiveconversations.

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge 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.
• Understandstheirteam'stestingapproach,andusesqualitymetricstoidentifygaps.Workswiththeirteamtorecommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks and the testingpyramid.
• Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within the scope of their domain.
• Drivesmonitoringworkontheirteambasedontheorganization'smonitoringphilosophy.Isawareoftheoperationaldata fortheirteam’sdomainandusesitasabasisfordrivingchanges tot team'sservices toachieve stability andperformance improvements.
• Hasexpertiseintheirteam'sdomain,includingthebreadthofservices,howtheyinteract,anddataflowsbetweensystems. Understands adjacent domains as they affect theirteam.
• 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.