Architect

About the job

Vonage is looking for a talented and experienced technical and enterprise architect. You will join a growing architecture team within Vonage’s communications platform. You will lead the architecture initiative for one of Vonage’s highest-profile and key strategic projects.

You will also work directly with engineering teams, enabling them to deliver software more effectively. You will be a member of the API Group’s architecture advisory group.

Finally, you will be a key advisor to the Director of Engineering, being an important bridge between them and the engineering teams.

What You’re Great At

• Independently tackling challenges: You don’t need anyone to keep you on track.
• You’re organized and efficient
• Articulate complex problems simply
• A strategic thinker - able to understand and develop where we are, where we want to get to and how we can get there
• Strong soft skills & ability to work with and influence multiple teams.
• Flexibility and adaptability to work in a growing, dynamic team

What You Must Have Experience In

• 10+ years in software development

What You’re Good At

• Although your focus will be on a key project, you can organise yourself effectively to work cross department
• Energy, curiosity, and a desire to learn and improve.
• Finding pragmatic solutions to complex socio-technological problems.

What technical skills are a must

• At least one of Java, Golang, Kotlin, Python or a similar programming language
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferable)
• Mapping of platform architectures
• System design
• Strong understanding of security best practices

What technical skills are nice to have but not essential

• Kubernetes or a similar container orchestrator
• Kafka or similar event bus technology
• Database architecture

Qualities About You That Might Make Our Decision Easier

• Experience operating in a similar technical lead role.
• Seeing the bigger picture and grasping the full scope of the business.
• Be a strong advocate for DevOps, agile and lean software development practices.
• A drive to always leave things better than how you found them: Code, processes, documentation, interactions with people and every other aspect of your work life.