Technical Architect – Cloud & Software Engineering
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About the Role
Dicetek LLC seeks a hands-on Technical Architect for a contract role in Abu Dhabi. The role involves coding alongside squads, enforcing software engineering best practices (DDD, TDD, SOLID, Hexagonal Architecture, Twelve-Factor App), and driving cloud-native design patterns on AWS and Azure.
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Responsibilities
- Code alongside squads: DDD (Bounded Contexts, Aggregates, Domain Events), Hexagonal Architecture, SOLID, TDD
- Ensure Twelve Factor App compliance for all cloud native services
- Define and enforce CI/CD pipelines, code review standards, trunk based branching, static analysis (SonarQube), and API standards
- Establish observability patterns: structured logging, distributed tracing, correlation IDs
- Drive cloud native design patterns across squads: microservices, serverless, event driven, container orchestration on AWS (primary) and Azure
- Enforce infrastructure as code (Terraform), cloud security best practices (IAM, secrets management, network segmentation), and cost aware architecture
- Design and code shared libraries, starter kits, and project archetypes embedding all best practices
- Pair program, conduct code reviews, run workshops on DDD / TDD / SOLID / Hexagonal / Twelve Factor
- Mentor developers to elevate overall engineering maturity
- Animate Community of Practice: tech talks, coding dojos, hackathons
- Maintain an engineering playbook with patterns, anti patterns, and reference implementations
Requirements
- 10+ years hands on software development, building solutions from scratch
- Expert in Java (Spring Boot), C# (.NET Core), Python, or Kotlin
- Deep DDD, TDD/BDD, SOLID, Hexagonal / Clean Architecture, Twelve Factor App
- CI/CD tooling (Git, GitLab CI/CD); Docker, Kubernetes; Terraform / IaC
- Cloud: AWS (EKS, MSK, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, API Gateway, SQS/SNS); Azure (AKS, DevOps, Service Bus, Key Vault)
- Event driven architectures (Kafka, SQS/Service Bus/IBM MQ); API design (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI)
- Security by design, observability, and code quality tooling (SonarQube, SAST/DAST)
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
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Job 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Code alongside squads: DDD (Bounded Contexts, Aggregates, Domain Events), Hexagonal Architecture, SOLID, TDD
- Ensure Twelve Factor App compliance for all cloud native services
- Define and enforce CI/CD pipelines, code review standards, trunk based branching, static analysis (SonarQube), and API standards
- Establish observability patterns: structured logging, distributed tracing, correlation IDs
- Drive cloud native design patterns across squads: microservices, serverless, event driven, container orchestration on AWS (primary) and Azure
- Enforce infrastructure as code (Terraform), cloud security best practices (IAM, secrets management, network segmentation), and cost aware architecture
- Design and code shared libraries, starter kits, and project archetypes embedding all best practices
- Pair program, conduct code reviews, run workshops on DDD / TDD / SOLID / Hexagonal / Twelve Factor
- Mentor developers to elevate overall engineering maturity
- Animate Community of Practice: tech talks, coding dojos, hackathons
- Maintain an engineering playbook with patterns, anti patterns, and reference implementations
Expected Deliverables
- Engineering Playbook (DDD, TDD, SOLID, Hexagonal, Twelve Factor, CI/CD, API standards)
- Reusable building blocks, starter kits, and project archetypes
- CI/CD pipeline templates for all service types
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Monthly code quality and CoP activity reports
- Technical debt register
Skillset And Experience
- 10+ years hands on software development, building solutions from scratch
- Expert in Java (Spring Boot), C# (.NET Core), Python, or Kotlin
- Deep DDD, TDD/BDD, SOLID, Hexagonal / Clean Architecture, Twelve Factor App
- CI/CD tooling (Git, GitLab CI/CD); Docker, Kubernetes; Terraform / IaC
- Cloud: AWS (EKS, MSK, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, API Gateway, SQS/SNS); Azure (AKS, DevOps, Service Bus, Key Vault)
- Event driven architectures (Kafka, SQS/Service Bus/IBM MQ); API design (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI)
- Security by design, observability, and code quality tooling (SonarQube, SAST/DAST)
- Capital Markets / Investment Banking domain knowledge strongly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
Soft Skills
- Influences through craft, not authority; proven mentor and community builder
- Pragmatic: balances engineering excellence with delivery pressure
- Strong technical writing: ADRs, playbooks, engineering guides
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