Technical Architect

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank is seeking a Technical Architect in Abu Dhabi. You will deliver state-of-the-art Omni-channel microservice designs, collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders, and drive high-quality, secure, high-performance software.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and push for continuous improvement while shaping the team roadmap and architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Writes production-ready code that is easy to test and understand.
• Understands testing approaches and quality metrics to close gaps.
• Skilled in systematic debugging within their domain.
• Drives monitoring aligned with the org's philosophy to improve stability.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance across teams.
• Solve high-scope, complex technical problems for the team.
• Influence overall objectives and long-range goals of the team.
• Define and improve internal standards for style and maintainability.
• Drive innovation and tackle complex engineering challenges.
• Mentor engineers to grow autonomy and unblock blockers.
• Collaborate with product and seniors to shape roadmap and features.

Skills

Clean code

Testing

Debugging

Monitoring

Domain knowledge

Software architecture

Forward planning

Tools

Testing frameworks

Monitoring tools

Debugging tools

Job description

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.