Now it’s your time to join the #1 bank in the Middle East and one of the most prestigious financial companies in the region. Shaking up the world of banking requires a lot of smarts and skill. We’re looking for the brightest and best to help us reach our goals and we’ll also help you reach yours. Your success is our success as you grow stronger in your career. Join us and leave a legacy of your own, as a pioneer in both the company and the industry.

FAB, the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest institutions, offers an extensive range of tailor-made financial solutions, products and services. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi the bank’s international network spans five continents.

The Digital Platforms & Operations team is responsible for the container, API management, release and testing, Open Banking and Automation platforms. Our service lines provide the platforms that enable and support our personal (retail), corporate and investment banking businesses.

FAB Digital Platforms & Operations is looking for a Service owner that has experience and passion building modern platforms and shared services. As a Service owner you will be a technical leader and exemplary practitioner.

FAB Principle Engineer are hands-on cloud native engineer.  You will help establish high standard service and manage end to end Technology Service  Execution.

You will need exceptionally strong technical skills, strong business acumen, analytical skills, and be able to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

Key Accountabilities: 

• Functions effectively as a Team Leader, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and timely execution of deliverables
• Drives best practices inside and outside of organization
• Solves  problems with high ambiguity.
• Effectively estimates design implementation efforts
• Thinks in terms of architecture as well as code.
• Consistently makes systems simpler. Improves system interaction.
• Spends time reviewing code and design, providing value-added feedback.
•  Successfully launches projects of significant impact. Balances technology with business value.
• Has 2 years’ experience in Digital Transformation and Agile Ways of Working
• Mentors and guides other engineers, ensures technology debt is controlled and managed
•  Performs, assists  and coaches on coding, testing and technical design related best practices / principles
• Analyses and guides the delivery team on E2E solution hosting and technical aspects of the platform
• Strong technical background with key focus on automation
• Proven track record of manual testing transformation to automation

Specific Accountability

• Should have hand on experience on cloud Kubernetes and api gateway platform level advanced management
• Proactively address issues discovered in the software components, infrastructure and scripts in the various environments
• Ensure that  SDLC procedures defined for Requirements and Solution Design within the domain/service/application/feature are followed.
• Ensure the team adheres to the key dates and that any exemptions are known and mitigated
• Share knowledge through Code Reviews and Communities of Practice opportunities across the Service
•  Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Ensure 100% compliance to standards / principles set by Bank / Enterprise Architect in solution design
• Deliver high quality service and design ensuring 100% completeness of solution
• Engineering sustainable and high performing solution that are scalable across Bank’s international locations
• Bank’s regulatory adherence & compliance from an Architectural and Design Solution perspective

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
•  AWS or Azure certified

Minimum Experience

• 10-15 Years of Experience in SDLC
•  Experience building web and mobile applications for banking customers
•  Experience with automated deployments using CI/CD pipelines
•  Direct experience driving large application and infrastructure platform migrations (and ideally application modernization) to AWS, Azure or GCP
• Practical Experience and expertise in at least 3 of the following domains: Kong/ Web Sphere / Web Logic / Tomcat / Data Power / IBM IIB
• Development in a distributed systems environment
• Experience developing cloud security practices and architecting highly secure public-facing infrastructures with significant market visibility and brand power
•  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
•  Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code services such as AWS Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager templates