IT Architect

The primary purpose of the Architect is to lead technology from an application and system design perspective. The incumbent will strategically evaluate, advise, and design high-quality technological architectural designs, considering performance, resiliency, scalability, and security, supporting the business requirements, and leading the design's realization into the final solution implementation.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

Define, document and promote the technical architecture standards, including component, database and API design.

Ensure that the product adheres to the defined architectural principles, factoring in performance, resiliency, scalability and security.

Provide API and other technical specifications and diagrams where required.

Collaborating with Product Leads and stakeholders to craft the product vision and roadmap.

Lead the Development Operations practices for the organization including automated testing and deployment, infrastructure as code and secure runtime configuration management.

Ensure consistent implementation of DevOps methodologies across all development teams.

Facilitate the evaluation and selection of new technology solutions to be leveraged by the product, including researching and defining methods for new system integrations as driven by customer and business needs.

Provide technical guidance and coaching to members of the development teams.

Facilitate, evaluate and select new technology that the product will be able to use.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and simply

Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to drive a solution and monitor its progress

Good time management skills

Ability to produce good quality work

Experience in understanding business problems and creating robust, scalable and maintainable technology solutions.

Exposure to cloud technologies (IaaS/PaaS), containerization, microservice architecture, CI/CD and DevOps.

Experience designing and developing web and mobile applications, server-side architecture and REST services in particular.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Master's degree or equivalent professional experience is preferred.

Minimum seven (7) years working experience to include at least three (3) years related experience either as a software architect or in a technical product owner or software development manager capacity.

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES AND BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Strong speaking and writing skills

Initiative

Flexibility

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

Excellent time management. The incumbent needs to be able to produce the design in the given timeline.

Occasional long hours; if the design is not produced, isn't of good quality, or produced in a timely manner.

FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

External: Vendors, Partners, Technology Partners

Internal: Product Lead, Chief Product Officer, Development team, DevOps team, Chief Technology Officer, occasionally Executive Management

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Timeliness, ability to meet set deadlines to allow the other departments to start at the stated time

Quality of design produced, the design needs to be clear and useful. The development team needs to be able to implement design.