Application Architect, Sr. Manager
About The Position
This role involves developing and leading a team of engineers to build and support Digital Products and Services, ensuring alignment with business goals. The position requires leading multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations, building, developing, and mentoring engineering teams. The Application Architect, Sr. Manager will ensure engineering solutions do not lead to poor business outcomes, add unnecessary complexity, or cause maintenance issues. They will advocate for best practices and new technologies, align application architecture with business goals, manage governance processes, and ensure adherence to architecture principles, policies, and standards. The role also focuses on improving engineering effectiveness through new programs, automation, re-architecture, and platform migrations, as well as eliminating bottlenecks and resolving cross-application architecture problems. The individual will evangelize application strategies to executive audiences and make a compelling business case for software investment through exceptional communication skills. Collaboration with company executives is key to understanding future needs, developing application strategies, and negotiating overall technology direction and resourcing. The role includes supervising the design and implementation of applications, ensuring stability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness, conducting design reviews, and clarifying user stories. Additionally, the position involves reviewing business drivers and strategies, understanding implications to application architecture, and identifying/mitigating risks to solutions. The role also requires conducting industry research, analyzing trends, educating teams on new frameworks, and motivating innovation, as well as developing proof of concepts or prototypes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (US or Foreign Equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
- Ten (10) years of experience in software development and engineering leadership.
- Ten (10) years of experience in Data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and software design patterns.
- Ten (10) years of experience in C#, Java or C/C++, and scripting languages (Python or Perl).
- Seven (7) years of experience in Front end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript or React.
- Seven (7) years of experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres, SQL Azure, MongoDB, Cassandra or similar).
- Six (6) years of experience Architecting fault-tolerant, high-scale distributed systems.
- Five (5) years of experience in Cloud architecture and deployment using Azure, AWS or equivalent private cloud.
- Five (5) years of experience developing and leveraging system-to-system protocols to connect large scale platforms.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead a team of engineers to build and support Digital Products and Services, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations.
- Build, develop, and mentor engineering teams.
- Ensure engineering solutions do not lead to poor business outcomes, add unnecessary complexity, or cause maintenance issues.
- Advocate for best practices and new technologies.
- Align application architecture with business goals, manage governance processes, and ensure adherence to architecture principles, policies, and standards.
- Improve engineering effectiveness through new programs, automation, re-architecture, and platform migrations.
- Eliminate bottlenecks and resolve cross-application architecture problems.
- Evangelize application strategies to executive audiences and make a compelling business case for software investment through exceptional communication skills.
- Work closely with company executives to understand future needs, develop application strategies, and negotiate overall technology direction and resourcing.
- Supervise the design and implementation of applications, ensuring stability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Conduct design reviews and clarify user stories.
- Review business drivers and strategies, understand implications to application architecture, and identify/mitigate risks to solutions.
- Conduct industry research, analyze trends, educate teams on new frameworks, and motivate innovation.
- Develop proof of concepts or prototypes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
