Technical Architect & Engineering Lead

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Relocation friendly

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Software/System Architecture

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BCM Industry

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02/07/2026

Req. VR-123802

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Project description

A hands-on technical architect / engineering lead embedded with feature teams across IBM Technology. The role codes, builds solutions from scratch, and enforces software engineering best practices (DDD, TDD, SOLID, Hexagonal Architecture, Twelve-Factor App) while delivering reusable building blocks. The Technical Architect also animates a developer community of practice to elevate engineering maturity across all squads.

Responsibilities
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Hands-On Engineering

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Code alongside squads: DDD (Bounded Contexts, Aggregates, Domain Events), Hexagonal Architecture, SOLID, TDD

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Ensure Twelve-Factor App compliance for all cloud-native services

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Software Factory & CI/CD

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Define and enforce CI/CD pipelines, code review standards, trunk-based branching, static analysis (SonarQube), and API standards

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Establish observability patterns: structured logging, distributed tracing, correlation IDs

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Cloud Adoption

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Drive cloud-native design patterns across squads: microservices, serverless, event-driven, container orchestration on AWS (primary) and Azure

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Enforce infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), cloud security best practices (IAM, secrets management, network segmentation), and cost-aware architecture

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Reusable Building Blocks

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Design and code shared libraries, starter kits, and project archetypes embedding all best practices

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Feature Team Enablement

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Pair-program, conduct code reviews, run workshops on DDD / TDD / SOLID / Hexagonal / Twelve-Factor

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Mentor developers to elevate overall engineering maturity

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Developer Community

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Animate Community of Practice: tech talks, coding dojos, hackathons

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Maintain an engineering playbook with patterns, anti-patterns, and reference implementations

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Expected Deliverables

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Engineering Playbook (DDD, TDD, SOLID, Hexagonal, Twelve-Factor, CI/CD, API standards)

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Reusable building blocks, starter kits, and project archetypes

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CI/CD pipeline templates for all service types

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Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

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Monthly code quality and CoP activity reports

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Technical debt register

Skills

Must have

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Technical Skills:

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10+ years hands-on software development, building solutions from scratch

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Expert in Java (Spring Boot), C# (.NET Core), Python, or Kotlin

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Deep DDD, TDD/BDD, SOLID, Hexagonal / Clean Architecture, Twelve-Factor App

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CI/CD tooling (Git, GitLab CI/CD); Docker, Kubernetes; Terraform / IaC

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Cloud: AWS (EKS, MSK, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, API Gateway, SQS/SNS); Azure (AKS, DevOps, Service Bus, Key Vault).

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Event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS/Service Bus/IBM MQ); API design (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI)

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Security-by-design, observability, and code quality tooling (SonarQube, SAST/DAST)

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Soft Skills:

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Influences through craft, not authority; proven mentor and community builder

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Pragmatic: balances engineering excellence with delivery pressure

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Strong technical writing: ADRs, playbooks, engineering guides

Nice to have

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Domain — Strongly Preferred

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Capital Markets / Investment Banking: trade lifecycle, pricing, risk, market data

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Corporate finance and securities services

Other
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Languages

English: A1 Beginner

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Seniority

Lead

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Req. VR-123802

Software/System Architecture

BCM Industry

02/07/2026

Req. VR-123802

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