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.

• 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 Dev Ops 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.

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

• 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.

• Strong speaking and writing skills
• Initiative
• Flexibility

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.

• External:
  Vendors, Partners, Technology Partners
• Internal:
  Product Lead, Chief Product Officer, Development team, Dev Ops team, Chief Technology Officer, occasionally Executive Management

• 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.