Software Architect - Centurion

SUMMARY:
Software Architect

POSITION INFO:

Software Architect

**Job Responsibilities **

• Partner with Solutions engineering, product development, network engineering, site reliability operations,

and other related groups

• Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance for the overall enterprise architecture that covers

vendor platforms, networks, different proprietary systems, and applications

• Control the conformity of solutions to architecture standards, rules, and roadmap.

• Lead multiple sub teams of three to four engineers, organise meetings with technical departments and key

stakeholders

• SME for internal OSS and BSS applications, as well as modern technologies used in distributed web

applications, B2B integrations, automation tools and data management.

• Understand capacity plans, tooling needs, automation plans, product launch plans, and other issues and

create comprehensive plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges

• Coach others, participate in knowledge transfer, assess employee performance frequently, address under-performance, and recognise and promote performance

• Balance between tasks related to “keep things running” and medium to long term “impact projects”

**Experience Required **

• Several years’ experience leading engineering teams in a tech. company

• Experience as a software engineer at various levels

• Demonstrable project management and service ownership experience

• Expertise in software development methodologies and DevOps best practises

• Polyglot with experience in PHP - Symfony framework

• Fast-learner of software languages, frameworks, and APIs

• Expertise in Apache, MySQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis etc.

• Utilisation of agile methods & TDD/BDD

• Superior troubleshooting skills

• Design and use of event sourcing, Docker, Jenkins, and Git

• Designing scalable web software architecture like SOA and Micro-service architecture

• Strong inter-personal skills

• Collaborating with external suppliers

• Experience as a software architect, designing large-scale, highly scalable, highly available web

applications using appropriate technology stacks

**Experience Desired **

• Memcached, NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, and SNMP

• Cloud technologies like AWS tools

• Migrating applications from on-prem. to cloud-based infrastructure

• Using multiple languages like Python, Java (Spring), Typescript etc

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