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Job Description:
Responsible for leading the charge to drive technology strategy and technical capabilities for an application ecosystem. Leverage deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks to design application architecture that balances business and customer needs with technical non-functional requirements for resiliency, security and efficiency. Partners with application engineers to ensure the application ecosystem is engineered according to architecture vision and continuously evolve the architecture and application to meet changing customer and business needs. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
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Responsibilities
- Partners with Sr. Product Owner(s) to develop product vision and strategy and align product vision with technology strategy
- Independently oversees the design process for an application
- Coaches' other architects to develop product quality strategy including nonfunctional requirements, such as reliability, availability, and security
- Demonstrates a deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks
- Trains others in solution design patterns
- Coaches' internal technology communities and are actively engaged in understanding and researching modern technologies and patterns
- Keeps abreast of industry changes across their product family. Assesses relative merits of technology maturity against Discovers needs.
- Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:
- Bachelors - Computer Science or related
- Software Development, Software Engineering, Technical Architecture or related
- Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus architecture scale
- Strong experience in cloud architecture, design, and cost optimization.
Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:
- Experience working with Event Driven Architecture
- Good grasp on Non-Functional Requirements
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, and operational stability.
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-22-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
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