Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical and architectural leadership for Microsoft .NET web applications by leveraging Azure Cloud services
• Create Architecture and Design documentation for the applications and present them to the review board
• Collaborating frequently with clients to provide cloud solutions and assistance; and working with these customers to understand their requirements for cloud implementations that add the most value to their business.
• Create functional design specifications, Azure reference architectures, design documents and assist with other project deliverables as needed.
• Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on Azure that address customers' requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance and leverage existing investments in Azure platforms.
• Designing, developing, implementing, and releasing high quality custom software solutions using Scrum.
• Creating project and application architecture deliverables that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Leading technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed.
• Applying the very best technical agile patterns and practices when building custom software solutions.
• Working under some supervision from a Solution Architect, but will be expected to work independently on complex, non-routine tasks and projects. You may interact with end users and other technical personnel to identify and correct issues.
• Maintain continuous, open, consistent professional communication with customers, peers and team members. Openly listen to others and confirm understanding to ensure everyone is on the same page.
• Reviewing and approving 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.
• Communicating implications of architectural decisions, issues and plans to business and IT Leadership.
• Defining and validating non-functional (technical) requirements, and establishing traceability between requirements and application architecture/design.
• Providing support / guidance to the development teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes.
• Providing input to the development of project initiation documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, and deliverables, when needed.
• Working closely with Performance Engineering and our Web/Infrastructure Technology teams on defining the deployment architecture.
• Participating, and technically leading when needed, production troubleshooting and 'War Room' Activities.
• Learn, learn, and learn by staying up-to-date on all technical developments related to Azure and other public cloud platforms.
• This role is expected to generally work in India business hours with occasional off-hours status meetings with the on-shore team

Skill sets: (Must have)

• Education qualification: BE /B Tech / MCA / MSc / M. Tech.
• 10+ years ofIT experience in application development and maintenance activities with Microsoft technology stack
• 4+ years of experience as an architect
• Experience in architecting complex Enterprise grade solutions in cloud environments.
• Experience in developing of IT architecture plans and software development methodologies.
• Experience in handling architectural needs of a system like conceptual architecture diagrams, design proposals, arriving at non-functional requirements, capacity planning, landscape planning, estimations, cross platform compatibilities, authentication & authorization mechanisms, project release & business continuity plans, reviews and technology governance.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of .NET Framework
• Microsoft SQL Server and other most common backend Microsoft technologies. Well versed with all SQL concepts.
• Expertise on Object Oriented Analysis & Design.
• Design, Implement and deployment experience in following:
  • Azure PaaS technologies such as
  • Azure Web App
  • Azure API App
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure Data Lake
  • Azure SQL,
  • Azure Cosmos DB,
  • Azure Storage,
  • Azure Service Bus,
  • Azure Service Fabric,
  • Azure Cognitive Services (ML, AI, RPA, Bots, OCR & NLP)
  • Azure App Service Environment,
  • Azure Redis Cache,
  • Azure Key Vault,
  • Azure Visual Studio Team Services,
  • Azure AD / MFA etc.
• Well versed in designing and building Azure solutions that include high availability, multi-region and multi-set architectures using virtual networks, availability sets and affinity groups.
• Insights and Diagnostics using Azure Log Analytics for both on-prem and Azure cloud environments
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communications skills.
• Strong knowledge of web-based technologies; HTTP, AJAX, HTML5, React, JavaScript/jQuery and CSS3
• Strong team skills including the ability to lead and be a team player

Skillst (Preferred):

• Client facing and exposure to onshore offshore delivery model
• Experience in working in a global environment involving multiple development sites on various time zones.
• Agile development environment especially SCRUM using ADO.
• Capable of building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals.
• Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions.
• Desire to take the initiative, moving projects/ideas forward with clarity.
• Adept negotiation skills in high-pressure situations.
• Leadership skills to indirectly lead cross-functional teams towards common solutions.
• Certifications in Scrum, TOGAF (or any other architecture related)