Senior Software Architect

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities

• Evaluates internal functions, system development strategies, and suggests recommended improvements.
• Develops system architecture models to align with the organization's strategies and goals.
• Organizes team trainings to improve employees' knowledge and skills for organizational and developmental growth.
• Identifies and implements build versus buy strategies, mentors personnel, and views of the overall system strategy.
• Guides development teams in re-architecting legacy applications (Microsoft stack) to make them scalable, and satisfactory for end users using micro-service architecture.
• Mentors technical teams for designing customer-facing enterprise class applications to deliver robust, scalable, and efficient software solutions.
• PARTNERS WITH PROJECT LEADS TO CONCEPTUALIZE TECHNICAL STRATEGIES, AND DESIGN/REVIEW REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PROJECT.
• Implements solution design standards and develops reference implementations.
• Provides documentation, training, and support for the designed solution.
• Contributes to the timely, high-quality delivery of customer facing software projects.
• Experience in robust, quick, and efficient system integrations with 3rd parties.
• Able to assist business partners to be self-sufficient in designing business process workflows.
• Understandings of various cloud offerings - SaaS, Paas and Iaas.
• Maintains up-to-date industry knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and new cutting-edge technologies around Single Sign-On, Mobile development, DevOps, Software Architecture, Cloud Offerings etc.
• Able to effectively and accurately convey information to others.

Qualifications And Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Advanced Degree preferred
• 5+ years’ experience in architecting software applications
• Prior leadership experience with responsibility for team capacity planning, coaching, and performance

Skills, Abilities, And Knowledge

• Strong leadership capabilities with ability to lead a team with influence in a cross-functional, matrixed environment; develop and maintain effective relationships to enable required results.
• Strategic, forward thinker with the ability to problem solve at a strategic and tactical level.
• Strong analytical skills; effective decision-making skills; ability to appropriately exercise independent judgment.
• Client focused, blending strong execution skills and a results orientation.
• Strong project management skills with experience leading initiatives across a distributed organization structure.
• Self-directed and comfortable working with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Accountable; strong work ethic.
• Strong quality orientation with an attention to detail and accuracy.
• Integrity, ability to maintain and work with confidential information.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly establish credibility, coupled with the ability to recognize and support the organization’s preferences and priorities.
• Effective at managing multiple priorities under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; ability to organize time and resources to bring initiatives to successful completion.
• Ability to participate on several development project teams with perspective to ensure all standards and processes are followed, good designs and quality documentation is created before handoff of a project to the support team.
• Strong verbal/written communication skills to communicate with both technical and non-technical parties.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain effective relationships across the organization.