Tech Architect | Remote

Important IT company At the Latin American level, growth requires:

Tech Architect

The selected candidate will:

• Design the technical architecture to address business requirements, including the design of system configurations (hardware, software, and messaging, as appropriate), solving complex problems in realms where solutions may not currently exist, necessitating new solutions / ways of working / technologies and proactively articulating these to the business

• Develops relationships across the business to understand requirements, applies deep technical knowledge of product or capability to solve business problems and works closely with development teams to oversee implementation

Your key responsibilities

• Provides innovative and practical designs for the design and integration of new and existing systems, applying advanced technical capabilities

• Provides technical expertise to maximize value from new and existing IT products and solutions and may lead on tool evaluation efforts including the definition of evaluation criteria, tool identification and the actual evaluation

• Guides others in resolving complex issues in technical architecture and solves complex, escalated aspects of a project and contributes to project management activities, such as providing estimates for tasks

• Works across multidisciplinary teams and with the business to deliver simple and easy to use systems that meet user needs and gains stakeholder buy-in

• Provides coaching and support to development teams during blueprinting and implementation phases

• Reviews and develops due diligence to confirm the developed solution complies with architectural design

• Contributes to development standards to promote optimization and consistency (including code modularization and reuse)

Skills and attributes for success

• Has an advanced understanding of technical architecture and can apply this in the development of new technical architecture components

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Master’s/Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, or related field preferred

• More than 15 years applied experience

• Experience of ""owning"" the design of a major/large component of an application or software architecture

• Possesses deep knowledge on technical architecture spanning across all aspects of each system and how it can be applied in a business context

• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems

• Deep understanding of software engineering best practices

• ·trong understanding of distributed systems and web services technology

• Understanding of agile project management methodologies

• Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented design

• Working knowledge of REST and RPC service patterns and other client/server interaction models

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated results in delivering excellent technical designs

• Experience managing vendors and service providers in order to meet business and company goals.

• Experience with managing teams, onshore, remote and offshore teams to work towards development best practices.

• Experience in technical design development and review, with the ability to provide insight, guidance and review at all levels from architecture to design and code.

• Experience in development using the Microsoft .NET platform, and responsive UI technologies like ReactJS, Angular1.5-2

• Experience building Cloud-native solutions (MS Azure preferred)

• Experience managing cross-functional disciplines of development, test and operational roles preferred

• Exposure to project management principles and methodology preferred

• Self-starter and able to handle multiple tasks and priorities

Ideally, you will also have

• Azure Cloud Certified

• Pivotal Certified

• TOGAF

ADVANCED CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH ESSENTIAL (Will be evaluated).

If you are a foreingner residing in Mexico, you must have a valid INE, CURP, NSS and RFC.

Job type: Remote.

Location: Mexico

Salary: $130,000 gross

Benefits: Excellent superior benefits.

Highlights

Strong experience with SQL, Selenium and Manual Testing