Sr Lead Architect

Responsibilities

Architecture Vision and Direction

• Assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles, and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize reuse of technology.

• Facilitates technical design reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.

• Assists in the identification, analysis, and resolution of technology infrastructure problems.

• Connects local teams with broader enterprise capabilities, driving integration and standardization as appropriate.

• Mentors engineers on business knowledge, technology, and career guidance.

• Creates a culture of knowledge sharing and failing forward, providing opportunities for engineers to learn from each other's successes and challenges.

Technical Architecture Development

• Develops the logical and technical architecture for project and platform initiatives and collaborates with project teams to realize them.

• Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology, and interoperability requirements and produces high-level design deliverables that enable development teams to create products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.

• Communicates technical architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery teams and other stakeholders.

Technology Monitoring & Evaluation

• Evaluates emerging technologies and the evolution of current technologies to define a future vision roadmap for optimal application of technology to meet business needs.

• Recommends improvements to technology and processes that increase team effectiveness.

• Creates proof of concepts to determine the viability of new or different technologies.

• Oversees and facilitates the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technologies.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 6years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years’ experience in a related field; or 12 years’ experience in a related field

• 5+ years of experience in the implementation of structured design and architecture processes in a corporate environment.

• 8+ years of experience in full development life cycle and significant experience in delivering applications and architecture services in a production environment.

• Requires strong knowledge AWS Services and offerings with a focus on Serverless patterns

• 5+ years of expereince in API design patterns including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, messaging-based APIs and other architectural integration patterns.

• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels

• Software development background in modern server-side computing stacks

• A solid understanding of the solutions architecture of consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems integration and cloud computing platforms is strongly desired

• Software development background in modern browser environments with React based single page app patterns preferred