Senior IT Specialist (Technology Engineering - Product)

Asian Development Bank - ADB

Staff Closes 22 Jun 2026 12 days left

Overview

Lead ADB's product engineering enablement capability to help teams deliver software more efficiently through reusable engineering assets, practical guardrails, and shared developer tooling. Serve as a senior hands-on technical leader contributing to solution design, prototyping, debugging, and code reviews.


Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the product engineering enablement capability and deliver shared engineering assets that improve delivery speed, code quality, security, reliability, and developer productivity.
  • Build and maintain reusable engineering components such as shared libraries, UI components, starter kits, templates, and reference implementations.
  • Package engineering standards into practical tools, templates, and pipelines that teams can adopt in their delivery workflows.
  • Prototype and validate solutions through direct code contribution before broader rollout.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership through coding, debugging, and code reviews, including support for complex or cross-cutting implementation issues.
  • Improve delivery practices through better use of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), observability, and test automation.
  • Drive adoption of shared solutions through implementation support, examples, and coaching.
  • Partner with architecture and product leadership to align standards with delivery needs.
  • Support the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in software delivery, including tools that improve developer productivity.
Required Experience
  • At least 10 years of relevant work experience, including international experience.
  • Experience working in cloud-native, microservices, or Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices such as reliability improvements or monitoring.
  • Strong software engineering skills, including writing and reviewing code, debugging, and prototyping.
  • Experience identifying common engineering challenges and developing reusable solutions such as templates, libraries, or developer tooling used across teams.
  • Ability to guide teams toward maintainable and sustainable engineering practices and communicate the impact of technical decisions.
  • Experience coaching or supporting distributed engineering teams.
  • Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience optimizing cloud usage or costs, and building internal developer platforms or golden-path tooling are preferred.
Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent in computer science or university degree with at least 5 years specialized experience.

Other Details
Languages Required
• Written and verbal proficiency in English.
Languages Preferred
• Public speaking, open-source contributions, or thought leadership in software engineering or developer productivity are preferred.
Contract Duration
Initially for a period of up to 3 years, or up to the Normal Retirement Date (NRD), whichever comes earlier. Option to renew for up to an additional 3 years.
Work Modality
Not specified
Remuneration
Not specified
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