Enterprise Architect – VP Technology

• Aligning EdTech technical and business strategies
• Design and lead the architecture of a solution
• Assess a customer’s current architecture by investigating its components
• Analyze a customer’s objective and assess the opportunities, risks, benefits, and costs
• Own the technical solution parameters in a proposal response
• Bring a “big picture” perspective to the adoption of new ideas
• Define how technology can be used to solve a given business problem
• Identify which framework, platform, or tech stack needs to be used for a given solution
• Implement transformation and transitional architecture
• Participate in the transformation board alongside the customer’s CTO
• Define and drive the technology advisory and consulting services
• Collaborate with project management and IT development teams.

The candidate should have a minimum experience of 10 years in building EdTech platforms and solutions with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in a similar role. The candidate is expected to have experience, practical skills, and knowledge in the following:

Must have

• Proven experience in engineering and software architecture design for developing EdTech solutions like Content distribution, Learning management, Authoring, Web / mobile reader, Assessment, Learning Analytics
• Ability to review the actual implementation of the architecture and integration point
• Infrastructure and engineering design
• Web and Mobility platforms
• Dev Ops

Good to have

• System security measures
• Database management
• SaaS-based platform
• Business analysis
• Project and product management

The candidate should possess the following qualities:

Expert communication skills: The Solution Architect must be capable of communicating clearly the technical aspects with CTO and the business organization.

Mastery of software development process and technical skills: The candidate must possess plenty of knowledge in technical aspects to be able to provide guidance, identify risks, and assess the technology architecture and infrastructure of the solution.

Detail oriented: The candidate must be a detail-oriented individual.

Technology agnostic: Technology is constantly changing, the candidate must stay on top of the latest technologies, techniques, and tools.

Collaboration: The candidate must have past experience in collaborating with the remotely located team at offshore locations that entail a different time zone.