Senior Lead Architect

• Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technical approaches to meet current and future needs
• Defines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
• Participates in architecture governance bodies
• Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on new technologies
• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Partners / Collaborates with application development teams to ensure efficient, secure, scalable, stable design and code
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability and performance of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) like Java, Python
• Demonstrated proficiency in building Microservices on cloud / distributed environments
• Experience in Architecting building highly scalable, fault tolerant, distributed system.
• Experience in designing and building batch and streaming pipelines to process data
• Experience in UI/UX Architecture - Frontend application Design using React or Angular
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle including automated end to end and performance testing.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Practical cloud native experience, preferably AWS
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best solutions for the future state architecture

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in modeling languages like UML or C4 model and knowledge of EA frameworks like TOGAF is preferable
• AWS Certification preferred
• Mobile Native Design and Architecture experience is preferred - iOS and Android