Architect- Dubai First

Company Description

Job Description

Full stack Solution Architect with total of 10+ years’ experience will have a range of responsibilities from shaping and designing digital products solution and services to ensuring that we stay on the leading edge of technology.

As Solution Architect, you will work in a cross-functional team with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, Business Analyst and Engineers to co-develop the digital products.

Key Accountailities

• Responsible for creating HLD and LLD for mobile application platform including backend and integrated services.
• Work closely with Head of Cross Business Unit as well as different IT teams to drive secure architecture design both high level and low level (HLD/LLD) and technology decisions.
• Ownership and fully accountable about solution design and translating business requirements to technical requirements.
• Introduce and maintain best practice and technologies to ensure the product stays on the leading edge of technology.
• Utilize a mix of open Source and commercial technologies to create the foundation for rapid and cost-effective implementation of systems that maximize value from day one in alignment with the bank’s policies and procedures and in alignment with different teams within the bank.
• Lead multiple development teams while delivering best in class enterprise grade software solutions across a breadth of different platform and technologies.
• Collaborate and facilitate integration with other teams and products within the bank including risk , security and compliance.
• Manage and mentor agile teams through motivation, engagement and leading.
• Foster a digital culture of knowledge sharing, job pride and collaboration
• Develop the team’s capability by suggesting improvements and providing honest and instant feedback
• Define and update the skillset and responsibilities required for each of the roles in the team
• Contribute to the recruitment process, technical interviews, RFP and ARB bank process.
• Advice the business on the implications of utilizing particular technologies including the advantages and disadvantages

Technical Advocacy

• Lead the technical solution within the technical team through knowledge sharing sessions and Geek-Talks.
• Be a technology thought leader within the digital team and the bank, suggesting and advocating new technologies to deliver business benefit.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience

• Solution Architect should be coming from development background and role with minimum of 5+ years’ experience in software development lifecycle holding roles such as Senior Developer.
• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience as Solution Architect in digital platform specially microservices architecture
• Minimum 5+ years of product development using Agile SCRUM methodology
• Excellent programming skills in at least 2 modern programming languages/ frameworks, such as Java Node.JS,
• Strong knowledge and experience of the following technologies: SOA, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Oracle, MySQL, REST APIs and AWS EC2, S3, Cloud direct connect, could front, could direct connect, VPCs, AZ, firewalls/ security groups, IAM, SQL and Non-SQL DB.
• Infrastructure knowledge including Single Sign On, LDAP, LAMP, Search & Authentication Technologies
• Experiences of engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous integration, Dev-Ops, building highly scalable applications, application security.
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Being a participant in technical communities such as external/internal meetups e.g., speak at conferences, author books and blog posts is an advantage

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent; Masters preferred
• Architecture certification (architecture certification from any of AWS, Microsoft, Google, etc.) preferred