Technical Architect - Omni-channel Microservices

About the role

ADIB Group is hiring a Technical Architect in Abu Dhabi. The role works with multiple teams and their business stakeholders to deliver state-of-the-art digital experiences through resilient, robust and very fast omni-channel microservice designs.

Key responsibilities

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security and performance across the team and beyond.
• Solve highly complex technical problems and exert significant influence on the team's objectives and long-range goals.
• Shepherd the definition and improvement of internal standards for style, maintainability and best practices in high-scale web environments, maintaining them through code review.
• Drive innovation, experiment with bold approaches and tackle problems of great complexity.
• Identify technical debt, propose and implement solutions so the team can iterate faster.
• Act as consultant and spokesperson for the team with customers and external stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers on the team, help them grow in technical responsibility and remove blockers to autonomy; mentor teammates of other teams as needed.
• Ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance, collaborate on larger projects and help shape the team roadmap.
• Decide on the team's engineering work based on the organisation's engineering strategy, and evaluate and create new product features with the product team.

Required profile

• Writes production-ready, easily testable and understandable code that handles edge cases and errors, with a bias toward self-documenting code.
• Works with the team to recommend solutions that fit accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid.
• Uses systematic debugging to diagnose issues in their domain.
• Drives monitoring work based on the organisation's philosophy and uses operational data to improve service stability and performance.
• Has deep expertise in the team's domain, including services, their interactions and data flows, and understands adjacent domains.
• Architects services and systems using well-known design patterns to enable iterative, autonomous development and future scaling, anticipating future use cases.