Technology Lead

Synechron; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking a Technology Lead in Abu Dhabi to manage the Development team and drive complex back-end and cross-platform solutions. The role focuses on designing, developing, and coordinating across architecture layers to deliver high-quality software.

The candidate should have 10+ years of experience, strong leadership, and hands-on expertise in Java, cloud platforms, and modern architectures. This is a full-time on-site position in the Banking domain.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years of experience in software development or a lead engineering role.
• Strong expertise in distributed architectures and microservices.
• Proven ability to lead development teams and deliver complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
• Managing team and successfully delivering the project.

Skills

Microservices

Containers

AWS

Azure

Java

Python

Frontend JS

Spring Framework

NoSQL MongoDB

SQL Oracle/PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Jenkins/GitLab CI

Git

Swagger/OpenAPI

Tools

Swagger/OpenAPI

Git/GitHub

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

We have an immediate opening for a Technology Lead position at Synechron in Abu Dhabi.

• Role Title: Technology Lead
• Experience:10+ Years
• Employment type: Full-time
• Domain: Banking

About Company:

Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,700 professionals across around 60 offices in over 22 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering.

Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

Synechron: Technology and AI Consulting for Business

Synechron is an innovative global consulting firm delivering industry-leading digital solutions to transform and empower businesses.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Synechron’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program, Same Difference, was developed because we believe in a culture of listening, respect, and opportunity.

We each bring unique backgrounds, thoughts, talents, and experiences with us to work every day, and we know that by embracing them, we are creating an even greater Synechron. The best way to build a strong team is to value individual differences. So, it doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you’ve had to do to get here – if you have the skills, enthusiasm, and drive to make your mark, we’ll support you like we support each other. Choose a career with us and let’s pursue innovation, together.

Job Descriptions:

• We are looking for a Technology Lead responsible for managing the Development team. This includes anything between complex groups of back-end services and their client-end (desktop and mobile) counterparts. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.
• Responsibilities
• Senior professional with 10-12 years of experience.
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Managing team and successfully delivering the project.

Skills:

• Working experience in an agile software development environment with a good understanding of the principles of agile architecture. Strong collaborative mindset for collective decentralized decision making.
• Demonstrate strong technical skills with a deep understanding of modern architectural styles and practices such as Microservices, Containers, Cloud (AWS, Azure), APIs, Continuous Delivery, Event-driven architecture, Evolutionary architecture, etc., with a passion for hands on coding.
• Strong foundation knowledge of software architecture concepts, patterns, principles, and quality attributes. Ability to consistently apply them in real-world scenarios with a pragmatic, system thinking, and problem-solving mindset by analyzing architecture trade-offs for delivering high-quality, sustainable solution architecture.
• Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth mindset. Ability to foster and motivate programmers for delivering with craftsmanship. Good personal skills to continuously engage and communicate with an egoless empathetic mindset.
• Experience and expertise in delivering architectures for large software solutions meeting critical business purposes. Ability to proactively discover technical debts and continuous improvement opportunities of existing live systems. Work closely with the product owner and enterprise architects to influence and prioritize technical backlog items.
• Proficient in Java & Java EE, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems and skill to write reusable components/Java libraries.
• Deep familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google and Serverless architecture and Cloud Native solutions.
• Experience in working with AWS services like API Gateway, Dynamodb, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Lambda Authorizer, kinesis, IAM and SAM .
• Work experience in Python .
• Work experience in front-end technology like Angular/React/Vue/Flutter and knowledge on Node JS.
• Familiarity with concepts of OOPS, MVC, JDBC, and RESTful and Experience with JSON and Swagger Open API specification, microservices orchestration (choreography, orchestration, and state machines), service mesh, authentication, and authorization (IdP and OAuth2), testing patterns and automation, app reliability (Monitoring, Logging, and Observability).
• Experience in NoSQL (Mongo preferable) and RDBMS DB (Oracle, PostgreSQL). Should be able to write complex SQL queries / procedure and functions.
• Design & Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Work experience inC (Spring core / Spring Batch / AOP / Spring Data / Spring JDBC / Spring Boot/ Spring Reactive), Hibernate ORM. And Working experience in Spring Security and OAuth2 implementation.
• Experience with messaging technology like JMS, Active MQ, IBM MQ and Experience with Apache Kafka.
• Experience and expertise in container-based architecture – Kubernetes, docker, CI/CD like Jenkins and Gitlab CI/CD.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Azure Repo, Bitbucket, Git, GitLab etc.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle.