Technical Architect ADIB IT 06:18

AimGulf; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced software engineer to deliver state of the art digital experiences through resilient, robust microservice designs across Omni-channel platforms.

You will collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders, mentor engineers, tackle high-complexity problems, and drive improvements in quality, security, and performance while aligning with engineering strategy.

Qualifications

• Writes production-ready code that is easily testable and self-documenting.
• Understands accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid.
• Proficient at systematic debugging to diagnose issues in scope.
• Drives monitoring to improve stability and performance of services.
• Has domain knowledge of services, data flows and adjacent domains.
• Architects services with design patterns to enable autonomous development.
• Anticipates future use cases and designs to minimize future changes cost.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance across teams.
• Solve high-scope technical problems for your team.
• Influence long-range team objectives and goals.
• Define and uphold internal standards for style and maintainability.
• Drive innovation and prototype improvements for complex problems.
• Address technical debt to improve team efficiency and cadence.
• Interact with customers and stakeholders as a technical consultant.
• Mentor engineers to grow technical ownership and autonomy.
• Ship large features with minimal guidance and collaborate on major projects.
• Provide mentorship that creates team redundancy and cross-team support.
• Contribute to engineering strategy and team roadmap discussions.

Skills

Production-ready code

Testing awareness

Debugging mastery

Monitoring & ops

System domain knowledge

Architectural design

Design patterns

Job description

Job Location

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Work Mode

On-site

Date Posted

5 November 2026

Job Reference/ID

4865

Job Description / Role

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 Responsibilities

• 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 minimal 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.

Skills Required

• 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.

Employment / Job Type

Full Time

Nationality

Any Nationality

About the Company

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, a Sharia compliant financial institution offering retail, corporate, private and digital banking. Its products cover accounts, home and vehicle finance, cards, wealth management and business services for customers in the UAE and selected international markets.

Company Industry

Banking

Department / Functional Area

Information Technology

Closing Date

11 November 2026