Software Architect
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Software Architect holds the overall technical ownership of a large area of work, a product or a part of a product, a specific technology or a client solution/s. His / her main responsibility is to make sure the area of work of responsibility adhere to the architectural and technical principles as per the guidelines issued by the Architecture Board. Software architects often plays a delivery role in addition to the main architect role where they hold the total ownership of the technical delivery including design, quality at source and drive the technical team for timely deliveries within budget, supporting the project directors. They are expected to mentor and empower technical teams and work collaboratively with other interested parties. Some architect roles will have line manager responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
Owns overall technical aspects of either a product, sub-product or a very large technical area.
Proactively identify and manage the implementation of all architectural changes and improvements to the area in servicing the business better. They should work with product managers in the area to identify upcoming business trends and technical improvements that are required to service them and work towards securing investments via valid business proposals.
Responsible for aligning and growing the product as necessary to the upcoming technology trends and demands while maintaining or improving the non-functional aspects such as performance, resiliency, security, hardware efficiency and operability
They should ensure the architectural designs and the codebase are maintainable and extensible. Expects them to research and identify credible third-party solutions including open source solution that can be embedded into the product.
They should represent the area as the technical owner in senior internal and external stakeholder forums
They are a member of the Architecture review board and are expected to provide inputs to review areas outside the responsible area. Also is responsible for getting the Architecture review board assistance for any changes/ alternatives that deemed sophisticated and do not fall into the general build patterns.
They should provide guidance to the successful delivery and implementation of customer projects of the area. In certain cases, the customer can be another internal product or a solution.
They should drive and provide the technical leadership to the teams for high quality and timely delivery of customer solutions. Should identify and highlight any technical or delivery risks beforehand and should work very closely with the other business, quality and delivery management stakeholders in the overall software delivery.
Holds the responsibility of training and mentoring all direct and indirect reports that include engineers and junior architects who work for the area and in the related customer deliveries. Special emphasis on the training will be required when new technologies or design methodologies need to be adopted in getting the team members and project stakeholders up to speed.
Most software architect roles carry line manager responsibilities for a team of Tech leads and associate architects.
Should ensure that the team is following the recommended SDLC procedures and standards. They are responsible for maintaining engineering baseline metrics within required limits and should contribute fully for team level baseline metrics to achieve required limits.
Encouraged to provide recommendations for overall company software architectural principles and SDLC standards.
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or similar technical field
Proven software engineering and architect background in C++
At least 10 years of industry experience and at least 2 years’ experience at the architect capacity
Experience in providing technical leadership to medium size teams
Up to date with modern IT trends
Hands-on experience in cloud technology, different open source technologies and integration of them
Understanding of the full SDLC and related tools
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