Software Architect (Tooling, Signon Bonus)

Architectural Duties

• Collaborating with the Tooling and PM to understand product direction and produce solution designs to match
• Setting short to medium-term technical direction for their area of ownership
• Accountable for the technical evolution of the architecture within their area of ownership
• Anticipating and planning ahead 6-12 months in order to identify the areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them.
• Working with the rest of the Architecture team to drive the overall Skedulo product architecture forward.
• Being data-driven, identifying and demonstrating the right tools at every stage of software development to ensure code and architectural qualities are not compromised.

Communication & Leadership Duties

• Operating in a collaborative manner by guiding technical discussions to help reach a consensus; once a decision is made, clearly communicate and back that decision.
• Communicating concepts and engineering vision to the product development team
• Regularly presenting the latest architectural decisions and direction via documentation and presentations to the product development team.
• Taking the lead in technical discussions with other product teams across Skedulo: UK, Australia, and US

Squad (Daily Ongoing Duties)

• Overseeing and driving the progress of the development team to ensure consistency with product vision, UX design, and technical design
• Driving and finding balance in prioritization of technical needs alongside product needs
• Ensuring the development team commitments are realistic and meet delivery timelines
• Coaching and mentoring engineers in architecture best practices.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 3 years acting in a technical leadership role (e.g. Architect or Technical Lead) in a product engineering organization
• Minimum 7 years of full-stack web application development experience with significant exposure to server-side delivery

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

• Preferred candidates will have experience with service-oriented applications delivered via container-based technologies (e.g. Kubernetes) in a public cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Preferred candidates have experience building platform capabilities for a developer persona. Preferred candidates will have experience to Node, Typescript, Kotlin/Java, Spring, and experience with relational database systems (Postgres is an advantage).
• Preferred candidates will have experience setting up and contributing to CI/CD pipelines/environments
• Preferred candidates will have knowledge of Data Movement and Processing Platform
• Preferred candidates will have strong working experience in prior product environments and with agile development methodologies
• Preferred candidates with proven ability to prioritize and handle work to critical project timelines in a dynamic environment and develop new approaches to complex design problems.
• Preferred candidates will have a team player mentality, will be quick on their feet, agile, and aren't afraid to speak up and voice their opinion

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