Technology Architect

Project Role : Technology Architect Project Role Description : Design and deliver technology architecture for a platform, product, or engagement. Define solutions to meet performance, capability, and scalability needs. Must have skills : Enterprise Architecture Framework Good to have skills : Python (Programming Language) Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education Summary: This position is responsible for guiding Business, Product, and Development leaders and teams to make good technology decisions that are innovative, fiscally responsible, and aligned with the overall Technology Strategy, evolving our offerings toward a cloud-native, SaaS-centric Platform. Work closely with Agile development teams offering guidance, proof of concepts, and technical solutions. Utilize extensive expertise in defining technical solutions, assumptions, constraints, and a quality plan for each opportunity or body of work being proposed (features/initiatives) for a given line of business. Accountable for assigned portions of the architecture output by the development teams and helping the teams to adhere to standards and product vision. Roles and responsibilities: Understand and anticipate the technological needs of the products and customers both in the present and in the mid- to long-term Remain well versed in new technologies and architecture patterns so as to provide them as potential solutions to business opportunities Communicate with executives, directors and product managers to understand business opportunities, associated value propositions and provide technical consultation Translate business opportunities and unknowns into clearly defined architecture solutions that development teams can implement Work consultatively with development teams to help them take ownership of a solution while serving as a resource for guidance and mentoring Lead in managing a landscape of perspectives, positions, skills, and personalities in order to lead/mentor people toward optimal solutions Provide in-depth documentation, instructions and learning materials of all works being rolled out to the larger organization or teams - i.e. software/architecture designs and patterns that can be absorbed by development teams Promote acceptance of and conformance to technology strategy solutions should utilize a common services platform-centric approach whenever possible Promote a culture of innovation and mutual advancement within the development community Continuously improve the software development process Participate in other projects or duties.

N/A KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Self-motivated / Creative / Innovative Strong software engineering skills object-oriented analysis and design functional programming analysis and design strong development ability in a well-known stack (functional or OO) such as Java, .NET, or Node database design and S/W - D/B interfacing requirements verification and quality assurance Strong understanding of distributed systems design and patterns an understanding of performance consideration in a distributed architecture an understanding of infrastructure as code - CICD, etc. Strong understanding of Cloud services and how to leverage them Experience with containers and orchestration is a plus Familiarity with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and ability to visually communicate complex architectures Strong customer focus and ability to interact with and create relationships with partners and customers in order to understand the needs being defined and proposed by the Business and Product. Ability to deliver technical expertise, excellence and guidance through a consultative approach. Ability to learn, implement, code against, and evaluate new technologies and approaches at an extremely fast pace. Excellent written and verbal communication skills Quickly assimilate, analyze, abstract, synthesize and act on large amounts of information Ability to