Position Summary

Defines, designs, develops, and implements technical strategies to fulfill high-level business requirements, this includes solutions for global platforms, products and services. Leads strategic and tactical infrastructure initiatives by designing, building and managing complex systems. Provide technical leadership by sharing best practices and technology trends and acting as a technical mentor related to their area of expertise. Scope of work is typically components across multiple products or services. 

Position Responsibilities & Essential function

• Gathers feature requirements for various product development teams and engage the team in planning and execution based on feature requirements
• Work with stakeholders and engineers to define architectures that meet both functional requirements and quality attributes
• Create functional design documents, translate the business requirements into system requirements, create a prototype of recommended solutions, demo to the users, and implement the solutions
• Use prototyping, test plans, and other means to validate that a particular architecture will meet defined requirements
• Verify that architectures are in synchronization with relevant system architectures
• Communicate with internal staff on trends in development
• Communicate with business teams, engineers and other architects to brainstorm solutions
• Design systems, components, applications and services which implement specific business objectives
• Work with engineering teams to implement the architecture in line with current engineering best practices

Qualifications

Preferred:

• Ability to organize and present complex solutions clearly and accurately
• Project leadership skills and solid design skills
• Previous experience as an architect, senior or lead engineer
• Good knowledge of Agile development methodologies

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience in Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics or related field
• 8 years of experience in development

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