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About the Client:
Join one of Egypt's premier financial institutions, renowned for its extensive suite of banking services, including Institutional Banking, Personal Banking, and Islamic Banking. With a global presence through over 50 branches and correspondents, we serve a diverse and dynamic clientele. As we embark on a groundbreaking digital transformation journey, we are committed to leveraging the latest technologies to establish a state-of-the-art data architecture that will redefine our performance and service delivery.
Role Overview:
The Lead Solution/Software Architect will own the architectural decisions for the team, covering backend API, integrations, frontend native Apps and web portals. He/she should be the visionary force behind the technical solution. He/she values simplicity and is unafraid to challenge technical constraints and procedures to achieve an Agile design. He/she works closely with all architects group to reassure creating a modular, scalable solution that addresses/incorporates future architectural changes and designs. He/she should consult in alignment with principals the engineering practices.
The role is hybrid if you are located in Cairo or fully remote for international contractors.
About the contract:
- The role is a long-term (one-year renewable) contract position
- The payments are paid out in gross amount in USD on a monthly schedule
Responsibilities:
- Coach architects to design the overall solution/application architecture of the product with the help of the team
- Guides project teams on technology strategy related to coding practices, continuous integration and automated deployment
- Accountable for the technical design of the product
- Be hands on and engage in coding to help the team to develop his solution and solve all surfacing problems at hand Identifies and removes technical impediments
- Works with Product Owner to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack
- Thought partners with the Product owner in story creation and acceptance criteria, and communicate tradeoffs effectively with Designers
- Constantly looking for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo
- Provides the team a roadmap for implementing software engineering practices for higher code quality
- Shares responsibility with Product Owner for building reusable and scalable components
- Reporting to Head of Engineering, aligning architecture decisions and technology stacks implementation
Requirements
- 12-15 YoE, Expert within the architecture and solutioning of technical components of the domains, products and digital customer journeys
- Expert in designing architecture artifacts, documents and UML as well as presentation capabilities for both backend and frontend solutions considering integrated journeys
- Can make architecture decisions at a team and product level
- Seasoned software architect with deep insight into newest technologies and trends, Java/JVM, Kotlin, swift/Objective-C, Angular/React, GoLang, and/or Python
- Hands-on experience API-first driven decision and secure, easily scalable and available solutions
- Hands-on experience in production native-cloud Microservices, DevOps, and CI/CD environments
- Experience in Agile Development, with specific Solution Architect (or similar) experience preferred
- Understands relationship with Product Lead, Agile Coaches, Quality Head, and Delivery Head towards autonomous decision making
- Experience managing technical priorities within the Backlog