Technical Architect

• Lead the technical direction of the product.
• Document current, intermediate, and future state technical architectures that support the product s vision and mission.
• Assist product development teams to provide technical leadership and guidance
• Facilitate and collaborate with scrum teams and product owners to create technical architectural documentation as required.
• Responsible for contributing to the technical direction of the product for the next 3-5 years by incorporating best of breed technologies.
• Provide ongoing evaluation of technology solutions and capabilities to ensure appropriate alignment of business objectives.
• Assess options, risks and cost-benefit analyses as they pertain to data architecture, security, and other technology issues.
• Outline technical recommendations and identify technological requirements that support the product roadmap.
• Develop a technical roadmap that maps to the product s future state.
• Promote technical standards, guidelines, best practices and quality control measures for enabling and implementing software systems.
• Develop a foundational strategy to scale our platform to meet upcoming growth
• Hands-on coding, code reviews, and leadership of the technical team
• Continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimise systems and tools to best meet evolving business and market needs
• Attention to detail, coupled with ability to think abstractly
• Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development
• Keen to learn new technologies and apply the knowledge in production systems
• Take complete ownership of projects and their development cycle

What skills and experiences would I bring into this role?

• 10+ years of Software Development background.
• Min 3 Years of working experience as an Architect.
• Deep background knowledge in software development and architecture with Java for Enterprise solutions.
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.
• Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, J SON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS, Solr.
• Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back-end systems.
• Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency
• Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.
• 5-9 years of software development experience in Java with web architecture and scalable design.
• Experience with agile development, continuous delivery, and DevOps and related tools.
• Proactive and communicative to be closely aligned within the Product Management and customer requirements.
• Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to develop technical and business artifacts.
• Exposure to Bigdata related technologies tools.
• Exposure to Elastic Search.
• Large scale application development.
• Able to manage large data structure and huge volume of data.
• Exposure of developing interactive graphs and business intelligence tools