Technical Architect / Engineering Lead
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About the Role
Synechron is seeking a Technical Architect / Engineering Lead with 10+ years of experience for a full-time role in Abu Dhabi. The role involves hands-on coding, enforcing engineering best practices, and leading developer communities, with a focus on banking domain and cloud-native design.
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Responsibilities
- Code alongside squads using DDD, 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, 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 and Azure
- Enforce infrastructure as code (Terraform), cloud security best practices, and cost aware architecture
- Design and code shared libraries, starter kits, and project archetypes
- 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
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)
- Capital Markets / Investment Banking domain knowledge strongly preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Full Job Posting
Overview
- We have an immediate opening for a Technical Architect / Engineering Lead at Synechron in Abu Dhabi.
- Role: Technical Architect / Engineering Lead, Experience: 10+ Years, Location: Abu Dhabi, Employment type: Full time, Domain: Banking.
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.
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: trade lifecycle, pricing, risk, market data (strongly preferred).
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
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