Associate Technical Architect

We are seeking a Associate Technical Architect to join our growing team!

Position Overview

The Technical Architect position is responsible for contributing to the high-level decisions in the software development process, determining everything from design choices to technical standards, such as platforms and coding standards. This position will leverage tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interface of desired product. Architect will develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility. This position may contribute by developing application code as needed. The Senior Architect will prescribe standards and guidelines and will act as a consultant to other architects, developers and leadership teams and must demonstrate quality, brevity, and timeliness in all deliverables.

In this role candidate will:

• Determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or existing applications
• Use tools and methodologies to deliver wireframes and representations of desired products
• Mentor and coach development team members
• Solve the most difficult software development challenges
• Establish frameworks for the development of software that will result in high quality solutions
• Maintain balance of business and technical acumen in decision making
• Prescribe source-code management and work item tracking best practices
• Prescribe the estimation process
• Provide consultation to development management team

Competencies:

• Must demonstrate good decision making and effective business acumen
• Must be able to communicate in both written and verbal form
• Must maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials
• Must have a growth mindset and subscribe to a continuous learning philosophy
• Demonstrate expertise and mastery in your area of technology and industry
• Must establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Must work well within and as part of a team

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• 10+ years professional experience performing software development
• 2+ years professional experience performing software development architecture activities and setting direction
• Master knowledge with respect to the following:
  • Microsoft Tech Stack
    • C#, .NET (Framework, Standard and Core 8+)
    • SQL Server (Fluent with stored procedures, functions, indexes, views, profiler, tracing)
    • Web Services (gRPC, REST)
    • ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core and Web API
    • Unit and integration tests (MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, mocking)
    • Relational Databases (SQL Server preferred), NoSQL(Added advantage)
  • Cloud Native solutions
    • Microservices (system decomposition, containerization, Kubernetes container orchestration)
    • Public Cloud (Azure or AWS a must)
    • Container Orchestration
    • Container Security & Networking/Segmentation.
  • Experience with Multi-Tenant Solutions
  • Master knowledge of toolsets such as:
    • Build Tools: Azure DevOps Pipelines, Terraform(added advantage)
    • Source Control: Git
    • Work Request Systems: Azure DevOps, Jira
  • Non-functional Requirements:
    • Scaling, performance
  • Master knowledge of SDLC Methodologies:
    • Agile, SCRUM, SAFe, use of architectural patterns/frameworks
  • Design
    • Design patterns
    • Architectural patterns, microservices
    • Code quality, clean code

• Ability to collaborate, validate and assist prioritizing requirements for projects and request
• Ability to properly assess and articulate risk

Preferred Education and Experience:

B.S. or higher in computer science/technology field preferred or equivalent industry experience

• Excellent customer-service orientation
• Effective delegation of tasks and follow-up
• Lead technology assessments and author recommendations
• Knowledgeable of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies
• Capable of meeting deadlines and focuses on results and value creation
• Capable of professionally resolving team issues/conflicts
• Works well with customers and vendors, knows when and how hard to push to maintain a stable and reliable environment
• Capable of leading research into application development issues to successful completion
• Self-motivated and directed
• Capable of prioritizing and execution of tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and regulations preferred (PCI, PII, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, ADA, etc.)