Technical Architect

What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Specification of technologies, application architectures and data structures as a basis for application change for internal assets.
• Producing quality, secure, scalable, high-performing, and resilient designs for new or improved services.
• Lead the systems analysts, developers, and testers in sympathetic change to the applications.
• For internal assets, support Application Managers to develop and maintain the Product Roadmap.
• Define and maintain development standards such as system and data design, coding, etc.
• Maintain a capacity plan with historical performance metrics, a future forecast, and a capacity model to ensure services and infrastructure deliver performance and growth targets in a cost effective and proactive manner.
• Manage architecture exceptions for the application, including identifying, documenting, taking through exception approval process, and remediation where and when possible.
• Monitor application services to ensure performance consistently meets non-functional requirements (response time, security, etc.).
• Work with the Application Manager & Delivery Lead(s) in defining, analyzing, planning, measuring and improving product availability and continuity.
• Leads the DevOps team and developers in targeted use of DevOps for their application platform assets.

You will report to the Release Train Engineer.

What you will BRING

Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• A moderate amount of experience with Guidewire Cloud and DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and containerization.
• Proven experience in designing complex, scalable architectures for large enterprise environments.
• Ability to break down complex problems, evaluate multiple solutions & choose the most suitable outcome based on tradeoffs.
• Uphold technical integrity of internal assets at the logical and physical level, ensuring designs and changes done based on an outstanding architectural foundation.
• Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns (API, middleware and/or data migration).
• Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and operations to ensure alignment on technical goals and priorities.
• Develop, own and publish the product technical architecture and design documentation.
• Identify technical resources required to deliver the service and maintain plans for the short-, mid-, and long-term to support business cases for technical investments (upgrades, etc.).
• Translates the high-level designs into the technical specifications to facilitate efficient and effective development and unit testing.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.
• Advanced skills in developing tools, frameworks and processes intended to maximize software quality and minimize time-to-delivery.
• Bachelors degree in the field of computer science, information systems, business management, or a related field preferred.