Solution Architect - IT

Objectives of this Role :

- Strategize, implement, and maintain program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives

- Assisting in the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology

- Development of a solutions architecture program including departmental roadmaps and project portfolios for IT systems architecture

- Oversee multiple project teams, ensuring program goals are reached

- Champions a structured approach to business application solutions

Key responsibilities:

- Provide thought leadership to the senior leaders for the direction of the overall product portfolio and manage and evolve our architectures and product designs. Identify and escalate issues, dependencies and risks and collaborate with business stakeholders to mitigate the risks

- Lead complex software development teams in a hands-on manner. Prototype code, participate in code reviews, facilitate breaking down user stories into technical tasks and help manage the process by which code is delivered. Expertise will expand into Cloud technologies, DevOps and continuous delivery domains

- Develop a growth mindset & relish opportunities to use familiar and unfamiliar technologies, closed source, and open-source software, and develop better approaches to solving business and technical challenges

- Strong understanding of key agile engineering practices to guide teams on improvement opportunities in their engineering practices. Lead the adoption of technical standards and best practices to improve our organizational capability

Qualification and Skills:

- Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, microservices, design and enterprise integration patterns, test and design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application and infrastructure security

- Broad working experience across multiple programming languages and frameworks with in-depth experience on MERN

- Hands-on experience with relational databases like SQL Server, PostgreSQL and document stores like Elasticsearch or MongoDB

- Hands-on experience with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes