Greetings,
We have an immediate vacancy for a Principal Engineer – Technical Expert (Application Platforms) with over 10 years of experience at Synechron in Abu Dhabi.
Job Role:Principal Engineer – GCF - Security Services- Technical Expert (Application Platforms) Experience: 10+ Years
Location: Abu Dhabi
Core Technical role: AI Specialist, Exposure to cloud technologies
About Company:
Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering.
Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.
Synechron: Technology and AI Consulting for Business
Synechron is an innovative global consulting firm delivering industry-leading digital solutions to transform and empower businesses.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Synechron's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program, Same Difference, was developed because we believe in a culture of listening, respect, and opportunity.
We each bring unique backgrounds, thoughts, talents, and experiences with us to work every day, and we know that by embracing them, we are creating an even greater Synechron. The best way to build a strong team is to value individual differences. So, it doesn't matter where you're from or what you've had to do to get here – if you have the skills, enthusiasm, and drive to make your mark, we'll support you like we support each other. Choose a career with us and let's pursue innovation, together.
Job Descriptions:
Role Summary
The Principal Engineer – Technical Expert (Application Platforms) is a senior individual‑contributor role that acts as the deep technical authority within the Securities Services domain.
Works in close partnership with Domain Architects, Application Owners, IT Operations, Risk, and Compliance teams to:
- provide expert technical judgement at the application level,
- introduce innovation and modern engineering practices, and
- embed AI‑driven improvements across the SDLC to materially enhance speed, quality, and resilience.
The incumbent intervenes directly in complex engineering topics, influences outcomes through technical credibility, and helps elevate overall engineering maturity across the domain.
Role Positioning & Interfaces
This role:
- Does provide application‑level technical leadership and innovation
- Does not own enterprise‑wide architecture standards (handled by Architects)
- Does not run day‑to‑day IT operations (handled by Operations teams)
Key interfaces include:
- Application Owners – primary delivery and prioritization counterparts
- Domain / Application Architects – enterprise architecture and design alignment
- IT Operations – stability, incidents, releases, and observability
- Risk & Compliance – secure‑by‑design, regulatory, audit readiness
- Vendors – technical quality, engineering standards, delivery assurance
Key Responsibilities
1. Deep Technical Expertise & Advisory
- Act as the application‑level subject‑matter expert across assigned platforms.
- Provide authoritative guidance on application architecture, design patterns, performance, security, resilience, and scalability.
- Perform hands‑on design reviews, code reviews, root‑cause analysis, and complex troubleshooting where deep expertise is required.
2. Partnership with Application Owners & Architects
- Work closely with Application Owners to strengthen technical decisions, estimates, and delivery outcomes.
- Collaborate with Architects to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture and target‑state direction.
- Translate architectural intent into practical, implementable application designs.
3. SDLC Improvement & Engineering Excellence
- Actively identify bottlenecks, quality gaps, and inefficiencies across the SDLC.
- Embed modern engineering practices covering design quality, testability, automation, and release readiness.
- Support SIT/UAT through defect analysis, prevention strategies, and design corrections.
4. AI‑Enabled SDLC Transformation
- Accelerate SDLC, improve quality, and reduce rework.
- Accelerate technical analysis and documentation.
- Improve code quality and first‑time‑right delivery.
- Strengthen testing depth and coverage.
- Reduce cycle time across build, test, and release phases.
- Embeds AI responsibly within regulated, audit‑ready engineering practices
5. Migration, Modernization & Decommissioning Enablement
- Provide technical expertise for legacy modernization, cloud or platform migrations, COTS transitions, and application decommissioning.
- Use structured analysis (including AI‑based insights) to identify dependencies, risks, and migration complexity.
- Support cutover planning, stabilization, and post‑migration optimization.
6. Run‑the‑Bank & Stability Support
- Support IT Operations during major production incidents with deep technical diagnostics.
- Identify recurring failure patterns and recommend engineering‑led preventive fixes.
- Influence improvements in observability, resilience, and recoverability (without owning operations).
7. Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Actively bring new ideas, tools, and techniques into the domain.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and AI use‑cases for practical adoption.
- Drive a culture of engineering craftsmanship, learning, and forward‑thinking design.
Experience & Background
- 10+ years of hands‑on engineering experience within Banking, Financial Services, or large‑scale enterprise technology environments.
- Proven credibility as a go‑to technical expert handling complex systems, migrations, and production‑grade platforms.
- Demonstrated experience driving engineering innovation and SDLC improvements, including AI‑assisted practices.
- Experience operating in vendor‑led or hybrid delivery models.
