Senior Architect - IT

Senior Architect

Responsibilities :

- Provide technical vision and leadership for architecture of one or more software solutions as a part of a platform suite by reviewing, analysing and evaluating multiple domains, market and business needs and user requirements.

- Design the ideal technology solution that serves the needs of business today as well as in future, that addresses domain requirements as also aligns to platform vision.

- Design APIs, Commands, Events, Services and Frontend architecture for the software domain.

- Build tools and shared packages that enable an event-based architecture composed from autonomous microservices.

- Contribute to Enterprise Architecture to define architecture patterns, standards and best practices and hold multiple development teams accountable for their adoption by reviewing architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams and code.

- Determine risks associated with third-party platforms, frameworks and data including open source.

- Present product technical designs and succinctly advise executives and product management on the business value of proposed technical solutions with appropriate tradeoffs and aspects of software, such as characteristics, structure and behavior.

- Work with a range of stakeholders including product managers, product owners, software engineers, subject matter experts and customers to understand the business objectives that will influence the design the product.

- Identify potential knowledge gaps in the organization and create/facilitate training materials, prepare and review presentations.

Technical Capabilities :

- You have architected cloud-based software and delivered it to customers and supported it throughout the lifecycle.

- You understand software architecture patterns and domain driven design; and can debate, decide and deliver documented designs.

- You know how to research and balance the build and buy choices.

- You have expertise in the technology stacks of cloud-based enterprise architecture, infrastructure, and implementation including: Microservices, REST, API Gateway, Domain

- Driven Design, CI/CD, Event Sourcing, ELK, Kubernetes, Docker, Node, Go (and/or other languages), Bash, Spark, SQL, NoSQL, Kafka, Angular, React, Authentication/Authorization (JWT, OPA), and best practices when connecting to and integrating with existing software systems.

- You have a deep understanding of software quality attributes (extensibility, security, scalability, durability, usability, etc.) and how to architect backend and frontend systems with these attributes.

- You have a broad understanding of software technologies that the industry is using and their benefits/drawbacks.