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.

• 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 (Sonar Qube), 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
• 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

• 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

• 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, Git Lab CI/CD);
    Docker, Kubernetes;
    Terraform / IaC
  • Cloud: AWS (EKS, MSK, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, Cloud Formation, API Gateway, SQS/SNS);
    Azure (AKS, Dev Ops, 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 (Sonar Qube, 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

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