This position will be responsible for software systems ensuring they align with business objectives, performance, security standards, and scalability needs. You will review and implement changes using new technologies and methodologies to enhance existing systems. You will provide guidance to development teams, ensuring projects align with architectural standards and offer technical leadership across multiple projects, systems, and clients.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to scope definition, requirements analysis, and design to align new features with the system context
- Present architecture diagrams (UML) and technical specifications, refining them based on feedback
- Define or select an application framework to optimize reuse within the organization
- Ensure a robust design within budget constraints and deadlines
- Work with IT to ensure the system environment meets or exceeds expected requirements
- Provide technical expertise in diagnosing and resolving system issues, including solution alternatives
- Utilize coding to analyze and integrate emerging technologies
- Develop and enforce quality, performance, and security standards across projects and teams
- Advise clients on appropriate technologies that balance project requirements and business constraints
- Assist development teams in prototyping proof-of-concept solutions
- Present on emerging technologies to development teams and clients
In your role as a System Architect, you will also be responsible for:
- Defining and owning the overall architectural strategy and technical roadmap
- Making high-level design decisions to align with business and technical goals
- Leading technical discussions and mentoring teams to enhance best practices
- Driving the adoption of emerging technologies that align with business needs
- Ensuring system scalability, performance optimization, and long-term sustainability
Technical Qualifications:
- Experience in technical architecture including technology evaluation and design decisions
- Experience in distributed, scalable systems and service-oriented architecture
- Experience in automating system and application builds
- Experience in server-side development (Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python)
- Experience in RESTful API services and web services implementation
- Experience in scripting technologies (Angular, TypeScript, React.js)
- Experience in unit testing tools and best practices
- Experience in MS SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle relational databases
- Knowledge in database design, SQL, data security, and data backup
- Knowledge of architecture design patterns, UML, and data modeling
- Knowledge of object-oriented principles (Interfaces, Classes, Inheritance, Encapsulation, Polymorphism)
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven architectures
Personal Skills:
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Ability to switch between macro and micro perspectives effectively
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to make holistic decisions
- Ability to foresee, plan, and mitigate risks
- Balances technical and business needs to offer the best compromise
- Attention to detail and a future-focused mindset
Education & Work Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in application design and development
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What We Do
Creative Capsule was founded in 2003 in Kansas City and since then has grown into a team of more than 200 motivated software professionals in Overland Park Kansas, Zürich Switzerland, and Goa India. Our founders continue to be involved in day-to-day operations, bringing an overriding customer focus and a dedication to technical excellence. Many of our best clients are rapidly evolving SaaS and software startup companies and life sciences companies who share our passion for innovation.
Creative Capsule builds lasting development relationships. We create highly skilled and effective software teams that integrate seamlessly with our clients’ organizations. We do not deliver one-off projects. Instead, we work to understand each client’s unique business needs and culture, and then construct cohesive teams that empower our partners and strengthen their delivery capabilities.
Creative Capsule helps clients to transform their software delivery capacity. For each client, we build a dedicated development group that works hand-in-hand with their organization, creating a single virtual team. We ensure a close fit with each client by selecting team members that have technical and personal attributes that resonate with the client’s needs and culture. Each of our teams spans continents, providing an optimized balance of responsive local presence and cost-effective offshore resources, while operating as a single innovative and agile force that shares risks and rewards.
