Solutions Architect Jobs

Lead solution-driven discussion for Digital and Data Products.

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• Translation of functional and non-functional requirements into a solution design document
• Conduct analysis to determine the best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement, systems enhancement, user training, and/or software procurement
• Ensure solutions developed across the organization are aligned to architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet financial targets (cost and benefits)
• Coaching and mentoring engineers in architecture best practices
• Regularly present the latest architectural decisions and direction via documentation and presentations to the rest of the Product Development team
• Provide professionally designed solutions based on requirement analysis
• Apply and utilize business modelling methods to ensure results oriented deliverables in a way that can be recreated and used as a corporate knowledge resource available to project level initiatives and executive decision making
• Understand and evaluate existing and future state product objectives and ensure target state architecture alignment is cognizant of the Digital and Data business capability needs
• Guide software development and quality engineering team to rigorously improve inline service scalability, performance and robustness
• Technical sign off on the implementation project to ensure that work done confers to best practices and delivers on functionality
• Act as a subject matter expert in the development of product architecture framework development, tool suite selection and design and methodology development
• Collaborate with Product Management to translate technical objectives/deliverables to a project plan
• Create product architecture models demonstrating how products, operations and systems interoperate within the organization
• Take hands-on development tasks on strategically important projects
• Operate in a collaborative manner by guiding technical discussions to help reach a consensus; once a decision is made, clearly communicates and backs that decision
• Develop new product or feature prototypes for proof of concept (POC)
• Establish best practice across multiple engineering teams
• Review, analyse, and evaluate ideas, projects and opportunities to develop new products, new technologies and business models for various business segments
• This role will include preparation of product architecture deliverables based upon product architecture standards, creating conceptual product Architecture views, current state gap analysis and target state product architecture views
• Ensure a swift and smooth delivery of agreed services
• Provide overall direction, guidance and definition of product architecture to effectively support business strategy
• Assess business and technical functionality to support build, buy, or partner decisions

Job Requirements:

• Experience with migrating workloads onto the cloud
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field from a top university
• Previous career track of progressive growth from software engineer, technical leader to software architect, with thorough hands-on development experience. Strong advocate of test-driven development methodology
• Experience solving challenging business problems with innovative enterprise solutions aligning business needs to IT capabilities
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers
• Able to work within the GMT+8 time zone
• Experience with business analysis and process impact analysis
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals, excellent problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Experience architecting, or operating -based applications or infrastructures with building at least one well-known successful product, ideally from inception to deployment
• Experience communicating architecture direction and decisions through presentations and clear architectural diagrams to engineering / product groups
• Must have true startup spirit and be willing to wear multiple hats, including hands-on prototyping, architecture and software development work. Must be an strong advocate of leading by example
• Combined experience of product development and architecture/design
• Sound knowledge of various operating systems and databases
• A solid understanding of industry-wide technology strategies and best practices
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations
• Experience as a Full Stack developer with hands on experience in Technologies such as NodeJS, ReactJS, NextJS, Typescript, Golang, Python, Java, Kotlin, Android, Graphql, Elasticsearch, Redis, Distributed Computing
• Experience with AI/ML/eCommerce/Digital Health/Marketplaces/Blockchain technologies/solutions
• Technical expert of at least 3 of these domains: HTTP and SSL Proxy, Security Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker, Next-Generation Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System, Server Load Balancing, Virtual Private Networks, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Kubernetes, VM and Container Networking
• Experience in a software design and architecture role, ideally in a SaaS based product organisation
• Additional skills: agile methodologies, dynamic presentation, influencing and negotiating
• Strong collaboration, communication and negotiation skills
• Experience in customer journey mapping, product roadmaps, competitive analysis, and product architecture