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: 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