Principal Architect

FAB, the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions, is looking for a Principal Architect with experience and passion for building modern web and mobile applications for corporate and investment banking customers. As a Principal Architect, you will be a technical leader and exemplary practitioner.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term technical strategy and architecture vision for FAB CIB.
• Think big and build foundational/reusable solutions and services that will help CIB brands use these solutions, where applicable, instead of building their own.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring other members of FAB architecture and developer community on advanced technical issues.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Lead or contribute to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and/or technology initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Domain knowledge of Corporate & Investment Banking services.
• Working knowledge in mobile banking, internet banking, host to host, open banking, and corporate payments.
• Experience in building high-performance, highly available, and scalable distributed systems, preferably running on AWS or Azure.
• Expert knowledge in reliability, performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• 5+ years leading large-scale software projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code services such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager templates.