A new product or business system needs to be built
The objective is clear and the organization needs a team that can take it from requirements to a system running in production.
Engineering Lifecycle Services
Software and systems engineering that we design, build, integrate, verify and operate.
We take on defined engineering responsibilities across the lifecycle, whether the work involves a new system or one already in use. Commission a single phase or a broader scope, and we agree the outputs and acceptance evidence at the start.
When organizations bring us in
A platform in use needs to change
Features, integrations or a migration are needed without disrupting the people and processes that depend on the system today.
Systems need to work together
Applications, data and external services have to be connected, with clear contracts and failures that can be diagnosed when they happen.
Releases need to become predictable
Testing, release pipelines, monitoring and recovery need to reach the point where shipping a change is routine rather than a risk.
Six phases, one accountable team
Commission a defined phase or a broader engineering scope. Each phase has agreed outputs and the evidence needed to accept them.
Establish what the system must do, its operating constraints, and the evidence needed for acceptance.
Define components, interfaces, material trade-offs, and verification needs.
Build the agreed components and connect them to the systems they depend on.
Assess behaviour against requirements and prepare the agreed release or commissioning.
Establish access, monitoring, recovery, support, and operating responsibilities.
Maintain the commissioned system and deliver prioritized changes.
How the work is arranged
The engagement mode defines how responsibility is shared. We agree the mode and scope around the work your organization needs. For Engineering Lifecycle Services, the highlighted modes are the most common.
Advisory
We provide technical direction and review. Your team owns implementation and operation.
Embedded
We work within your team with an agreed technical leadership or engineering remit. Responsibilities and decision authority are defined together.
Common for this serviceManaged
We take delivery responsibility for an agreed scope, with explicit milestones, acceptance criteria, and operating boundaries.
Common for this serviceWork in this service
Case studies, described as they were built.
A booking and operations platform for sports facility owners in the UAE
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Moving more than twelve applications from GCP to Azure with infrastructure as code
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One authorization service for many applications, built in Rust with Casbin
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Building a test suite that makes releases predictable for a growing AI and data platform
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A pipeline engine that runs, pauses and resumes data workflows
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A controlled three-environment release pipeline on Azure
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Connecting AI workflows to Outlook and SharePoint through Microsoft Graph
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Live run monitoring and cancellation across server instances
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Workspace-level permissions that carry down to every project and asset
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Running user code and parsing documents in isolated services
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Common questions
Can you work on a system that is already in use?
Yes. Much of our work changes systems that people rely on every day, such as a migration of more than twelve applications between clouds and a test suite added to a platform that had none.
Can you work inside our existing team?
Yes. In the Embedded mode we work within your team under an agreed technical leadership or engineering remit. In the Managed mode we take delivery responsibility for an agreed scope.
How do you choose the technology for a system?
Around the system's requirements and the environment it has to work in. We work across a wide range of languages, frameworks, databases and cloud platforms, and where your organization already has a technology estate, we build on it rather than replace it without a reason. Material technology choices are made explicitly, with their cost, risk and operational implications recorded.
Do you only work with organizations in the UAE?
No. CharCentric is based in Abu Dhabi and works with organizations in the UAE and internationally.
Discuss your initiative
Share the initiative, what it needs to achieve, and the constraints you already know. We can discuss the engineering work involved and whether CharCentric is the right partner.