Technical Architect / Engineering Lead

Greetings,

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

About Company:

Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering.

Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

Synechron: Technology and AI Consulting for Business

Synechron is an innovative global consulting firm delivering industry-leading digital solutions to transform and empower businesses.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Synechron’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program, Same Difference, was developed because we believe in a culture of listening, respect, and opportunity.

We each bring unique backgrounds, thoughts, talents, and experiences with us to work every day, and we know that by embracing them, we are creating an even greater Synechron. The best way to build a strong team is to value individual differences. So, it doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you’ve had to do to get here – if you have the skills, enthusiasm, and drive to make your mark, we’ll support you like we support each other. Choose a career with us and let’s pursue innovation, together.

Job Descriptions:

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.

Key Responsibilities:

Hands-On Engineering

• Code alongside squads: DDD (Bounded Contexts, Aggregates, Domain Events), Hexagonal Architecture, SOLID, TDD
• Ensure Twelve-Factor App compliance for all cloud-native services

Software Factory & CI/CD

• 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

Cloud Adoption

• 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

Reusable Building Blocks

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

Feature Team Enablement

• Pair-program, conduct code reviews, run workshops on DDD / TDD / SOLID / Hexagonal / Twelve-Factor
• Mentor developers to elevate overall engineering maturity

Developer Community

• 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:

Technical — Must-Have

• 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)

Domain — Strongly Preferred

• Capital Markets / Investment Banking: trade lifecycle, pricing, risk, market data
• Corporate finance and securities services

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

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. Certifications are a plus but not a substitute for hands-on craft.