Job responsibilities
- Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
- Defines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
- Participates in architecture governance bodies
- Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on new technologies
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Partners / Collaborates with application development teams to ensure efficient, secure, scalable, stable design and code
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability and performance of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) like Java, Python
- Demonstrated proficiency in building Microservices on cloud / distributed environments
- Experience in Architecting & building highly scalable, fault tolerant, distributed system.
- Experience in designing and building batch and streaming pipelines to process data
- Experience in UI/UX Architecture – Frontend application Design using React or Angular
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle including automated end to end and performance testing.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Practical cloud native experience, preferably AWS
- Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in modeling languages like UML or C4 model and knowledge of EA frameworks like TOGAF is preferable
- AWS Certification preferred
- Mobile Native Design and Architecture experience is preferred – iOS and Android