Senior Data Engineer & Architecture Lead

Abacus Global; Lahore; On-site; PKR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Large-scale platform projects

Collaborative environment

Professional development resources

Global exposure

Job summary

Abacus is seeking a senior software engineering leader to provide technical direction across multiple squads within the Software Engineering Centre of Excellence. You will guide solution design, ensure architecture alignment, and drive high-quality delivery across enterprise platforms.

Collaborating with architects, PO, and DevOps teams, you will set standards, oversee SDLC, and mentor engineers to maturity while championing CI/CD and cloud-based practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field preferred.
• At least 4–6 years of experience in software engineering and application development environments.
• Strong experience in enterprise application architecture, system integration, APIs, and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile delivery models.
• Experience working with distributed systems, microservices, and scalable application design.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Relevant technical certifications advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide software engineering teams in the design, development, and delivery of enterprise software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple agile squads and support engineering best practices.
• Drive solution design, architecture alignment, and technical decision-making across projects and platforms.
• Collaborate with architects, Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to define technical requirements and delivery approaches.
• Ensure engineering standards, coding practices, security controls, and quality assurance processes are implemented consistently.
• Support estimation, sprint planning, technical roadmaps, and delivery execution activities.
• Review and approve technical designs, code quality, and implementation approaches.
• Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies, and delivery blockers.
• Support DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and cloud engineering practices across delivery teams.
• Mentor and coach developers and engineers to improve technical capability and engineering maturity.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the Software Engineering CoE.
• Support production stability, operational readiness, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis activities where required.
• Contribute to reusable engineering assets, frameworks, accelerators, and standards.
• Collaborate with Business Operations, Delivery leads, and stakeholders to support governance and reporting requirements.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, tools, and engineering practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Solution design

Architecture alignment

DevOps practices

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Microservices

APIs

Team leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Software Engineering

Tools

CI/CD tools

Docker

Kubernetes

APIs

Microservices

Job description

Abacus is seeking a senior software engineering leader to provide technical direction across multiple squads within the Software Engineering Centre of Excellence. You will guide solution design, ensure architecture alignment, and drive high-quality delivery across enterprise platforms.

Collaborating with architects, PO, and DevOps teams, you will set standards, oversee SDLC, and mentor engineers to maturity while championing CI/CD and cloud-based practices.