Sr. Software Architect

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Senior Solutions Architect (Sr. Sol Arch), you will play a critical role in designing and delivering innovative technical solutions to address complex business challenges. Leveraging your extensive experience and technical expertise, you will lead architectural design efforts, provide technical guidance, and ensure the successful delivery of technical solutions for medium-sized complex projects, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance. Responsibilities include close collaboration with cross-functional teams, providing technical guidance to team members, and contributing in the development of architectural methodologies, strategies, and initiatives, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Requirements Definition and Management

• Provides valuable input in proposal generation and identifies client requirements for large scale complex projects.
• Translates the requirements into a high-level application design, and coordinates these specifications with the relevant project stakeholders (e.g. Business Analysts when defining the product features).
• Determines the appropriate requirements management methods, tools, and techniques for large and complex projects

Solution Design and Architecture

• Serves as a Subject Matter Expert in providing technical solutions for the projects such as Application Architecture, Database Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, and any other system analysis and design needed, ensuring alignment with project goals, scalability, and performance requirements.
• Architect end-to-end solutions with detailed designs encompassing system components, interfaces, and integrations to meet business needs, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and deliverability, particularly for medium-sized and complex projects.
• Oversee the end-to-end delivery of solutions, from initial concept to implementation and deployment, in partnership with the Project Manager.
• Provide technical direction and guidance, ensure the correct application of strategies, policies, standards, and practices, and manage all software development requirements including repositories and development servers.
• Contributes to the development and enforcement of the application of best practices.

Systems Design, Integration and Build:

• Design system components and implement integration strategies for connecting disparate systems and applications using appropriate techniques and standards.
• Provide technical expertise for configuring system components for testing and collaborates with technical teams on integration plans.

Data Modeling and Database Design:

• Apply standard data modeling and design techniques and implement data warehouse designs for medium-sized, complex projects.

Documentation, Architecture Governance and Collaboration:

• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and implementation guidelines  to ensure performance, resiliency, scalability and compliance with security and project requirements, and communicate plans to stakeholders.
• Conduct architecture reviews to mitigate risk and ensure adherence to approved technical solutions.
• Review code, designs, and technical deliverables for new and existing solutions for alignment with architectural principles, plans,  and quality standards.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to drive consensus on technical solutions.
• Participate in training, design, documentation, and delivery efforts with the Project Manager.

Technology Evaluation:

• Designs and implements long-term strategic goals and short-term tactical plans to manage and maintain existing or new technology and software.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools to recommend optimal solutions. Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices to drive innovation and continuous improvement.

Knowledge Sharing:

• Assists SA team with any SA related tasks
• Contribute to the formulation initiatives to increase skills, quality & efficiency for the SA team
• Participate in process standardization and/or improvement on SA-related tasks.
• Other job-related activities that may be assigned from time to time.

FUNCTIONAL/TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

Systems Design, Solution Architecture, Systems Integration and Build, Requirements Definition and Management, Data Modelling and Design, Database Design, Stakeholder Relationship Management

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Teamwork & Collaboration, Accountability, Customer Focus, Communication, Innovation, Quality.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

• Education –  Graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or any related course.

• Related Work Experience – working experience in Software Development, providing technical solutions such as system architecture, infrastructure design, and database structure.

• At least 5+ years of experience in software engineer roles such as web and mobile application development.

• Knowledge – In-depth knowledge, strong experience and expertise on the following:

• Software development with the ability to code at some level and knowledge of APIs and SDKs

• Software development languages like PHP, Java, Python, .NET
• Infra as a Code such as Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Architecture design principles, methodologies, and best practices
• API design, and microservices architecture.
• Enterprise integration patterns is a plus
• Web service integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML)
• Any integration protocols like SMPP, UCP, and HTTP, and others
• Version control (e.g. SVN, GIT).
• Debugging and optimization skills
• Collaboration and documentation tools such as Confluence, Jira, Asana, or Trello
• Cloud computing technologies and architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP). Must have a certification in any of the cloud platforms.
• Frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman is a plus

• Skills:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Demonstrates presentation skills with a high degree of comfort for diverse audiences.
• Must have sound problem resolution, judgment, analytical and decision-making.
• Possesses solid Stakeholder Relationship Management and the ability to collaborate with various teams to attain goals and pursue excellence.
• Demonstrates excellent Organizational, Time Management, and Attention to Detail Skills.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and able to guide new team members.
• Must be adept to work in a fast-paced environment with tight SLAs.