Technical Architect

Role :
Technical Architect

Location : Abu Dhabi

Role

Purpose:

To work with multiple teams and team’s business stakeholders and deliver state of the art digital experience through resilient, robust and blazing fast Omni channel Microservice designs

Key Accountabilities of the role

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team and others.

• Solvetechnicalproblemsofthehighestscopeandcomplexityfor yourteam.

• Exert significant influence on the overall objectives and long- range goals of yourteam.

• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standardsforstyle,maintainability,andbestpracticesforahigh- scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.

• Activelyseekoutdifficultimpedimentstoourefficiencyasateam ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster

• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of yourteam.

• Providementorshipsforall Engineersonyourteamtohelpthem grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.

• Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

• Mentors their teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability. Mentors’ members of other teams asneeded.

• Collaboratesanddecidesontheirteam'sengineeringworkbased on organization's engineering strategy, together with their teammatesandseniorengineers.
  
  Sometimesinvolvedinworkon organizational engineering strategy.

• Evaluatesandcreatesnewproductfeaturesincollaborationwith the product team. Regularly participates in the creation of the team roadmap and ensuing feedback. Simplifies product and technical design through proactive conversations.

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role:

• Consistently writes production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors. Understands when it is appropriate to leave comments, but biases towards self-documenting code.

• Understandstheirteam'stestingapproach,andusesqualitymetricstoidentifygaps.
  
  Workswiththeirteamtorecommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid.

• Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within the scope of their domain.

• Drivesmonitoringworkontheirteambasedontheorganization'smonitoringphilosophy.
  
  Isawareoftheoperationaldata fortheirteam’sdomainandusesitasabasisfordrivingchanges tot

team'sservices toachieve stability and performance improvements.

• Hasexpertiseintheirteam'sdomain,includingthebreadthofservices,howtheyinteract,anddataflowsbetweensystems. Understands adjacent domains as they affect theirteam.

• Architects’ services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.

• Anticipates future use cases and makes design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.