Technical Architect - Online/Internet/IT

Technical Architect

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Should have hands on experience and be a developer as and when required.

- Picks up the needs and challenges of the product and technical road-map and devise design solutions that will support the product/technical strategy and goals.

- Provide technical leadership across all areas of the product, to ensure delivery of exceptional technical solutions

- Scope the technical solutions to meet the immediate needs yet have the solution extensible.

- Mentor on approach and execution of solutions, coach on technologies and establishing a team wide comprehension of solution capabilities and direction

- Ensure technical expectations of deliverables are met.

- Maintains strong expertise and knowledge of current and emerging technologies and products.

- Can quickly spike framework options and provide comparison/justification for selection.

- Remove impediment relevant to technology and be catalyst to development team by suggesting tools, better development practices, unit test & coding skills.

Mandatory Skill set :

- Experience leading and inspiring development teams

- 8 to 12 years of software development with at least 5 years designing enterprise web applications

- Good to have experience working with Java programming and Spring/Hibernate web application development

- Expert in designing complex frontend and backend applications using cutting edge technologies like Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, Solr, Hadoop, Spark etc.

- Excellent in database management like MySQL, NoSQL databases.

- Should be a polyglot and should have experience working in multiple technologies (example - Java, Python, Scala)

- Expertise in software engineering principles, object design, security, data interchange, data management, etc.

- Experience working with distributed architecture and services with external vendor integration are must.

- Solid troubleshooting skills and ability to suggest to team members ways to look for root cause of problems

- Solid understanding of the practical application of agile development methods and leading software development teams in an Agile/Lean environment.

- Good to have experience working with infrastructure architecture team in helping incorporate necessary support/automation required in development

- Good to have experience working in enterprise product development life-cycle