Cloud Software Architect

CARBO

About The Position

The Cloud Software Architect is a key leadership role, responsible for developing new and creative innovative approaches, which will serve as the basis for the company’s next generation solutions as well as revamp our legacy offering. The Cloud Software Architect will be a close collaborator and trusted advisor to the development team (both in-house and third party) and ensure the delivery of high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions. The role is tasked with working with the team in solving technical issues on performance, scalability, security, and enterprise systems including technical leadership for the full product life cycle i.e., requirements gathering, design, development, testing and deployment.

Requirements

Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, and/or client/server systems.
Sound understanding and firsthand experience architecting edge and IoT solutions.
Expertise in software architecture design, distributed systems, microservice architectures, and data distribution strategies.
Knowledge of data stores and both SQL and NOSQL databases (including performance tuning), such as SQL Server, Azure Cosmos, MySQL, Hadoop, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
Demonstrated knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
Knowledge of modern Agile / DevOps tool chains and processes, including CI/CD, tracking of project metrics, unifying development and operations, etc.
Understanding of client / server and distributed system / cloud architecture patterns
Have experience with REST API(s).
Familiarity with cloud storage, such as Azure Storage or equivalent.
Deep understanding in the areas of Applications and Infrastructure in Cloud Compute workloads in Azure.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or closely related field; Advanced degree is preferred.
Ten (10) years of experience in hands-on development, application design in the delivery of software products.
Minimum 3 years in an architect role in previous large-scale software development projects, preferably SaaS delivery model.
Extensive experience with developing and delivering commercial enterprise software.
Minimum three (3) years’ experience in architecting and designing container frameworks used to run microservices or data processing workloads.
Experience with front end technologies, such as Angular and React in a development environment.
Firsthand development experience of Java stack, Knowledge of Spring
Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
Experience in developing software systems, which employ data mining, machine learning, or statistical techniques, methods, and algorithms.
Experience with Progressive Web Applications.
Experience deploying cloud solutions into hybrid environments, including architecting services for simultaneous cloud and on-prem deployment.
Coordination of geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk.
Act as the coach and mentor to team members and technical staff on their assigned project tasks.
Develop a cohesive team and ensure their continued success.
Conduct product work reviews with team members.
Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.
Analyze the design, implementation and testing of cloud based and on-prem software solutions.
Select the right technology and architecture for scalable, high availability, and reliable platform development.
Provide architectural and technical guidance to a distributed development team, i.e., in-house and third-party.
Work closely with the executive team to define product direction and design.
Optimize infrastructure for cost and efficiency.
Lead the design, development, integration, and debugging of systems and applications.
Perform requirements analysis, system/software design and analysis, development/software metric creation and analysis, system risk analysis, integration, and test metrics.
Translate product requirements into engineering specifications.
Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.
Anticipate future system needs and be proactive in identifying solutions.
Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation.
Maintain overall industry knowledge and latest trends, technologies, etc.