Technical Architect & Engineering Lead

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

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

Skills

Must have

Technical Skills:

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)

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

Nice to have

Domain — Strongly Preferred

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

Corporate finance and securities services

Other

Languages

English: A1 Beginner

Seniority

Lead

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Req. VR-123802

Software/System Architecture

BCM Industry

02/07/2026

Req. VR-123802