We seek a Subject Matter Expert, Back End, Expert-Level who shares our passion for innovation and change. This role is critical to helping our business partners evolve and adapt to consumers' personalized expectations in this new technological era. This role is responsible for leading the architecture of back end and server side systems. The architect defines standards for APIs, distributed systems, integration, data modelling, and security. The role requires broad architectural understanding across multiple disciplines alongside deep expertise in back end technologies.
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Key Responsibilities
- Define back end architecture strategy aligned with organisational goals
- Design scalable and secure server side systems and APIs
- Establish API standards, integration patterns, and service design conventions
- Lead technical design reviews and key architectural decisions
- Architect microservices and distributed systems
- Define data models, schemas, and data flows
- Implement authentication, authorisation, and data protection practices
- Define monitoring, logging, and error handling strategies
- Optimise system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Mentor engineering teams and support capability development
- Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance
- Produce and maintain architectural documentation and system diagrams
- Evaluate back end frameworks and emerging technologies
- Manage technical debt and lead refactoring initiatives
- Present architectural decisions to senior stakeholders
Expected Outcomes
- A coherent and consistent API and service ecosystem
- Improved reliability, resilience, and observability in back end systems
- Reduced complexity through well designed architectures and integrations
- Adoption of consistent back end architecture patterns across teams
Decision Making Authority
- Acts as technical authority for back end architecture
- Owns API and service design standards
- Responsible for long term back end architectural direction
- Makes informed decisions balancing immediate needs and strategic goals
Technical Skills
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Core technologies
- NodeJS
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Apigee
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Architecture and design
- RESTful API design
- Microservices architecture
- Event driven architecture
- SQL and NoSQL database design
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Security and performance
- Authentication and authorisation patterns including OAuth and JWT
- Data encryption and secure data handling
- Caching and performance optimisation techniques
- Resilience and fault tolerance patterns
Work Conditions
This job can be filled in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia #LI-Hybrid.
