Engineering Lead / Solution Architect

ARM Holdings (Asset and Resource Management Company, ARM Group) is hiring a Engineering Lead / Solution Architect in Ikoyi, Lagos

Job Details

• Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
• Job Type: Full-time
• Experience: 10+ years

About the Role

The Engineering Lead / Solution Architect designs, builds and owns the architecture of ARM's high-volume, mission-critical transactional platforms, including investments, redemptions, payments, wallets and client servicing

This is a hands-on role: the jobholder writes and reviews code, makes binding architecture and technology decisions, and leads engineers to deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions at pace

The jobholder sets the engineering standard for ARM

That means architecture governance, modern engineering practices and the deliberate use of AI across the software development lifecycle to cut cycle times and raise quality, measurably

This is not a people-management-only role

The successful candidate is expected to spend a meaningful share of time in code, design and production systems

Key Responsibilities

Engineering leadership and delivery

• Lead one or more engineering squads to deliver production-grade features and platforms on time, with clear technical ownership
• Translate business and product goals into delivery plans, technical roadmaps and well-sized engineering work
• Remain hands-on: build critical components, prototype new patterns and unblock complex technical problems
• Own production quality for assigned platforms, including incident response, root cause analysis and permanent fixes

Engineering excellence and standards

• Define and enforce engineering standards: coding conventions, branching, code review, testing, documentation and definition of done
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted engineering (coding, code review, test generation, documentation, debugging and design) with clear guardrails on security, data privacy and human accountability
• Reduce lead time for changes and deployment friction through automation, trunk-based practices and continuous delivery
• Manage technical debt deliberately, with a visible backlog and agreed remediation investment

People and capability

• Mentor and coach engineers; build clear growth paths from junior to senior and staff level
• Contribute to hiring, technical interviews and onboarding to raise the engineering bar
• Build a culture of ownership, psychological safety, blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement

Technical & Architecture Responsibilities

Solution architecture

• Design end-to-end solutions for new products and integrations, documented through architecture decision records, C4 diagrams and clear non-functional requirements

Architecture governance

• Lead architecture and design reviews; maintain reference architectures, approved patterns and the technology radar; align solutions with enterprise architecture and security policy

Transactional platforms

• Design for correctness under load: idempotency, consistency models, distributed transactions (saga, outbox), reconciliation and auditability of every money movement

Microservices and events

• Define service boundaries using domain-driven design; design event-driven flows on Kafka and RabbitMQ with schema governance and replay capability

APIs and integration

• Own API design standards (REST, versioning, contracts), API gateway strategy and integration with banks, payment providers, custodians, regulators and fintech partners

Resilience

• Build in circuit breakers, retries with backoff, timeouts, bulkheads, rate limiting and graceful degradation; validate them through failure and chaos testing

Performance and availability

• Set and meet SLOs for latency, throughput and uptime; lead capacity planning, load testing and high-availability and disaster recovery design on Azure

Data architecture

• Design data models, partitioning, indexing, caching and query optimisation for SQL Server, PostGRES and NoSQL stores; ensure data integrity and retention compliance

Cloud-native and DevOps

• Architect containerised workloads (Docker, AKS) with infrastructure as code (Bicep or Terraform); own CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps with automated quality and security gates

Observability

• Implement structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing (Grafana Loki, Prometheus, Application Insights) and actionable alerting across services

Security by design

• Embed secure SDLC, threat modelling, OWASP and OWASP API Top 10 controls, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, secrets management and encryption; support compliance with NDPA 2023, SEC and CBN requirements

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field; a Master's degree is an advantage
• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering, with at least 4 years as a tech lead, engineering lead or solution architect
• Proven track record designing and running high-volume, mission-critical transactional systems in production, ideally in asset management, banking, payments, fintech or capital markets
• Deep, current hands-on expertise in C# and .NET / .NET Core, plus working proficiency with React/NextJS and Flutter
• Production experience with AWS, Azure DevOps, containerisation and CI/CD at scale
• Demonstrated use of AI tools across the SDLC with evidence of measurable productivity or quality gains
• Advantageous: Microsoft Azure or AWS Solutions Architect Expert, TOGAF, or Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD) certification; exposure to Nigerian payment rails and capital-market integrations

How to Apply

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