Software Architect

Other locations : Canada, London, India & Australia.

Remote : OK

Job Role

As a software architect, you will lead the design effort on a variety of projects in a highly collaborative, dynamic environment. You'll design creative solutions to real market problems. You will work closely with other partners such as, product and marketing managers, designers, and other software engineers to develop new product offerings and improve efficiency of the solution.

Responsibilities

Work collaboratively with product, marketing and other engineering teams in understanding the requirements and assist them in delivering the solution.

Understand the big picture and the various use cases involved while crafting the solution and document them in Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Identify the appropriate software architecture for both server-side and client-side solution to achieve the proposed requirement.

Assist Software Designer / Implementers with the creation of detailed software design specifications.

Own and maintain the architecture document.

Perform software version control and maintain periodic compilation schedule.

Maintain product roadmap, release schedules and architectural standards that ensures alignment with business objectives.

Mitigate risks and problem identified in providing the solution.

Keep an eye out for technology trends, open source projects that can be used.

Integrate internal and external product design into a cohesive user experience.

Drive a compelling long-term vision, build long-lasting design directions, and dive deep to very specific details, so you effectively hold the entire product architecture in your head.

Define criteria for completeness to meet system and business expectations.

Ensure the overall integrity of the software architecture and validates it against the system specification.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or relevant fields.

At least 5+ years experience in with end-end architecture for large design and coordinate project team in SaaS industry.

Excellent social and communication skills.

Demonstrated expertise in building Web Applications, Enterprise Applications, Web Services, and Management at scale is a requirement. Strong knowledge of datastores (SQL, NoSQL), and ability to make choices among available technology based on requirements.

Experience with Architectural patterns for High Availability, Performance, Scale Out architecture, Disaster Recovery, Security Architecture Knowledge of cloud based architectures, deployment and operational aspects of Amazon Web Services cloud is a plus.

Software development experience in one or more programming languages - Ruby, Java, Scala, Go, Python, Javascript.

Exposure to industry standards like REST, BPEL, Java EE, OSGi.

Ability to guide the team in all tiers of enterprise applications including front-end technologies like angular, ember.

Be data driven, identify and demonstrate the right tools at every stage of software development to ensure code and architectural qualities are not compromised.

Ability to prioritize and handle work to critical project timelines in a dynamic environment and develop new approaches to complex design problems.

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