Application Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate passion for excellence in software engineering services, education, and support.
• Provide technology leadership and strategic direction for application architecture across the organization.
• Collaborate with regional and global partners across multiple functional units.
• Navigate complex, matrixed organizational structures to influence and lead senior stakeholders.
• Design and architect fault-tolerant, high-scale distributed systems.
• Drive full-stack engineering initiatives, including front-end frameworks and backend services.
• Implement and consume large-scale web services and cloud-native solutions.
• Advocate for best practices in design patterns, object-oriented design, and software engineering principles.
• Support scalable digital transformation initiatives through architectural guidance and oversight.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience.
• 3+ years of experience architecting fault-tolerant, high-scale distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Proficiency in programming languages beyond Java (e.g., Ruby, Python, Perl).
• Experience with cloud platforms including Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, and their PaaS/SaaS offerings.
• Experience with mission-critical, 24x7 systems and high-throughput cloud-native distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and full-stack engineering, including JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux, or equivalent front-end frameworks.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills across global teams.