Architect- CIB Platforms

First Abu Dhabi Bank is an inclusive environment where each person values the experiences, perspectives, ideas and beliefs of others. We’re in a unique position to learn from all our colleagues, combining international experience with deep cultural knowledge and local expertise. At FAB, you’ll have the support of your team and a strong relationship with your line manager, who will trust you with responsibility and recognize your good performance. As we embrace different ways of seeing the world, listening to each other and respecting different viewpoints, we grow stronger – together.

Job Purpose:

• Liase with business and technical stakeholders to identify new functionality that should be implemented by the domain/service/application/feature.

Key Accountabilities:

Generic Accountability

• Exploring Technical upgrade road map based on business domain requirement, technical innovation to ease the development, design process, incident handling process
• Share knowledge through Code Reviews and Communities of Practise opportunities across the Service
• Proactively address issues discovered in the software components, infrastructure and scripts in the various environments
• Ensure that SDLC procedures defined for service within the domain/service/application/feature are followed.
• Ensure that all performance and career-based activities, conversations and artifacts are prepared together with the individuals, such as; Development Plan
• Co-ordinate with Product owner/ Business analyst for Agile Sprint Planning
• Taking initiative in innovation, bringing new tools and technology to make process easy, mentoring
• Technical team on new tools and technologies

Job Context:

Specific Accountability

• Owner of an application or a feature within the application
• Defines and communicates a shared technical and architectural vision (including infra)
• Consult with the Enteprise Architecture practice to ensure that the service is aligned with FAB architectural patterns
• Ensure that SDLC procedures defined for Requirements and Solution Design within the domain/service/application/feature are followed.
• Document quality procedures for the service
• Ensure that talent is continual brought into the team through facilitating interviewing new team members including on boarding
• Ensure that all performance and career based activities, conversations and artefacts are prepared together with the individuals, such as; Development Plan
• Share knowledge through Code Reviews and Communities of Practise opportunities across the Service

• 10-15 years overall experience in IT starting with the hands-on engineering positions
• 2-5 years’ experience doing practical design or architecture within the specialization (solutions, infrastructure, network, security, etc.)
• Practical experience and deep understanding of technology in the area of specialization, software stack, patterns and best practices
• Knowledge and experience in requirements traceability throughout the design phase, including functional and non-functional requirements
• Design patterns and Agile practises
• Ability and experience in translating functional and non-functional requirements into solution/feature/component design and service architecture
• Understands how the business structures and functions in FAB relate to the nature of the service
• Can create a high-level and low-level design (functional and non-functional) of a single or a small collection of components or a small end-to-end service
• Has good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and ensures that SDLC procedures defined for service or application are followed
• Conducts / participates in code reviews, identifies bug root causes, and finds a workable solution
• Participates in Communities
• Proactively addresses issues discovered in the software components, infrastructure and scripts in the various environments
• Should be aware of Application security best practise available in the market
• Should have sound understanding in evolving technologies like AI, Data Science and should be able to co-ordinate with core teams in FAB for getting task done specific to project requirement
• Sound understanding in modern languages, Python and other scripting languages and related frameworks .
• Sound understanding of Microservices & understanding in DevOps, Docker and K8s, Data pipeline and cloud platforms, Event Driven architecture,Kafka ,EMQ like AWS etc