Technical Architect & Engineering Lead

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: 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 Domain Strongly Preferred • Capital Markets / Investment Banking: trade lifecycle, pricing, risk, market data • Corporate finance and securities services Other Languages • English: A1 Beginner Seniority • Lead • 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: 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 Other Languages • English: A1 Beginner Seniority • Lead