Overview
Hands-on technical architect/engineering lead embedded with IBM Technology feature teams, coding in Java/C#/Python/Kotlin, enforcing DDD, TDD, SOLID, and cloud-native patterns on AWS/Azure while building reusable libraries and leading a developer community of practice.
Full job description
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.
Responsibilities
- 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 (SonarQube), 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 Feature Team Enablement
- 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 Expected Deliverables
- 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
SKILLS
Must have
- 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, GitLab CI/CD); Docker, Kubernetes; Terraform / IaC
- Cloud: AWS (EKS, MSK, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, API Gateway, SQS/SNS); Azure (AKS, DevOps, 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 (SonarQube, SAST/DAST) Soft Skills:
- Capital Markets / Investment Banking: trade lifecycle, pricing, risk, market data
- Influences through craft, not authority; proven mentor and community builder
- Pragmatic: balances engineering excellence with delivery pressure
- Strong technical writing: ADRs, playbooks, engineering guides
Nice to have
• Corporate finance and securities services
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