Senior Solution Architect (JD#11407)

Job Summary

Our client in a well established industry is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to be responsible for the end to end architecture of their enterprise systems in their digital transformation journey.

Mandatory Skill-set

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline;
• Has 12 years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering, technology delivery and technical leadership;
• Proven track record in designing and delivering complex, large-scale and mission-critical software solutions;
• Strong experience in defining architecture principles, engineering standards, technology governance and best practices;
• Demonstrated ability to make and communicate architecture decisions covering scalability, performance, security, resilience, integration and maintainability;
• Strong hands-on knowledge of modern software architecture, including cloud-native solutions, microservices, APIs, distributed systems and modern application development;
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD and modern software engineering practices;
• Experience working across public cloud, private cloud and/or on-premises technology environments;
• Experience building reusable engineering frameworks, common services, development platforms and software accelerators;
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and lead technology experimentation, innovation and R&D initiatives;
• Proven experience mentoring senior engineers and architects, developing technical capabilities and driving engineering maturity across teams;
• Strong understanding of security architecture, technical risk management and secure software engineering practices;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and able to work well with cross-organizational teams;
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate architecture methods, concepts, standards and policies.

Desired Skill-set

• Cloud Security;
• Cloud certifications;
• PMP / ITIL / TOGAF.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership and establishing the direction for the IT architecture, standards, design and implementation;
• Translate business requirements, including application resiliency requirements, into application architectural specifications;
• Evaluate and recommend the use of leading edge technologies and methods, considering their practicality, technical limitations and criticality;
• Create, evaluate and implement high-level plans and design proposals for IT solutions;
• Design the architecture blueprint of the organisation's architecture set-up using multiple models;
• Manage technical project delivery - perform code reviews and ensure performance tuning and scalability;
• Document all solution architecture design and analysis work;
• Collaborate with vendor development team to resolve technical challenges;
• Analyze and determine performance tuning and scalability improvements of code and queries;
• Provide architecture and technical support during production incidents;
• Mentoring technical staff and raising the collective technical competencies;
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and digital trends.

Should you be interested in this career opportunity, please send in your updated resume to [email protected] at the earliest.

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Skills

Architectural Modeling, Application Architecture, Architecture, Implements Design, Develops Software Solutions, IT strategic plan, Architect, Systems Architecture, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, Agile, Information Technology Architecture, Vendor Management, Solution Architecture, DevSecOps, Technical Project Delivery, Business Requirements