Requirements
Requires 15+ years of overall experience and 10+ years in banking. Must have experience implementing API-first strategies, ensuring domain services reflect business capabilities, and maintaining architectural integrity, scalability, and performance. Proficiency in engineering best practices like CI/CD, DevSecOps, and test automation is essential. The role involves translating enterprise goals into platform engineering strategies and championing platform modernization and domain-driven design, along with building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
Description
Job description / Role
Job Type
Full Time
Job Location
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Nationality
Any Nationality
Salary
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Arabic Fluency
Not Specified
Job Function
IT - Software & Web Development
Company Industry
Finance, Investment & Asset Management
Job summary / introduction
Define and lead the strategic vision for API, AI, and domain services engineering across the value streams. Break down the backend into reusable API services by decomposing legacy systems into modular, discoverable, and consumable capabilities. Provide engineering leadership to build scalable, secure, and scalable platforms that power digital transformation. Drive cross-value stream collaboration to ensure platform services are aligned with business outcomes and domain-specific needs. Foster innovation and operational excellence through modern engineering practices and emerging technologies.
Key responsibilities
Lead engineering teams in building robust domain services.
Promote API reuse and developer enablement across value streams.
Define and evolve the enterprise API, AI, and domain services strategy.
Collaborate with product owners, architects, and engineering leads across value streams.
Identify common capabilities and build shared services to support multiple domains.
Ensure platform services are extensible, discoverable, and well-documented.
Adopt emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI Agentic).
Provide leadership to delivery teams, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Maintain delivery roadmaps, capacity plans, and resource forecasts.
Ensure compliance with IT governance, risk, and regulatory requirements.
Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.
Track and report KPIs, including audit and risk metrics.
Promote a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous learning.
Requirements / qualifications
Experience overall: 15+ years, banking 10+ years.
Implement API-first - prioritizes APIs at the beginning of the SDLC process, positioning APIs as the building blocks.
Ensure domain services reflect real-world business capabilities and priorities.
Ensure architectural integrity, scalability, and performance of platform components.
Promote engineering best practices, including CI/CD, DevSecOps, and test automation.
Translate enterprise goals into platform engineering strategies.
Champion platform modernization and domain-driven design.
Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams.
About us
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the largest bank in the UAE and one of the world's largest and safest financial institutions. We offer a comprehensive range of personal and private banking services, including credit cards, Islamic banking, investments, loans, and mortgages. Our commitment to excellence and innovation drives us to provide top-tier financial solutions to our clients.
Life at FAB
Working at FAB means being part of a team of talented and passionate individuals with a shared vision to support the ambitions of our stakeholders to "Grow Stronger." We embrace the needs of our customers across the globe with a sense of responsibility and confidence driven by extensive expertise that can only be delivered by an ambitious world-class organization.
Career development
FAB offers unique career choices, a chance to innovate, craft solutions for the future, and express yourself in a performance-based culture that will unleash the best in you. Whether you are an experienced professional or just starting your career, FAB provides a range of learning and development initiatives to support all employees through training and skill development.
Our values
At FAB, we place our customers at the core of our activities, live our values each day in every way, celebrate achievements, and empower each other to deliver leading solutions. We have structured plans for the recruitment and career progression of Emirati talent to enable them to make a mark in the financial and banking sector both regionally and globally that rewards your hard work and dedication.
Join our team and be part of a journey to shape the future of banking.
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