Software Architect Offline

Required Knowledge and Skills:

- Proven Senior Backend Development experience

- Any platform: Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, .NET, Java etc

- Proven Software Architect experience

- Software Architecture patterns (SOA vs Microservices, Event-Driven etc)

- Distributed systems design

- High-load systems

- Cloud Infrastructure

- Architecture Documentation and Visualisation tools and frameworks

- Excellent Business and Technical communication skills

- Fluent English

Additional Requirements:

- Ready to travel abroad

- Thinking out of the box

- Leadership abilities

Responsibilities:

- Help Business Stakeholders and Developers understand each other in order to achieve the common goal

- Consult, coach and mentor Development teams and Business Stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle

- Design, document and visualise Software Architecture

Pre-Sale:

- Act as a part of pre-sale team

- Take part in meetings with clients

- Translate client business requirements into an Architecture Vision

- Briefly estimate the project scope and timeline

Discovery:

- Elicit detailed project requirements with Business Analyst

- Take part in workshops and kick-off meetings

- Decompose and estimate project scope of work

- Validate product backlog and acceptance criteria

- Help to find the right people for the project team

Development:

- Keep Architecture Documentation up-to-date

- Communicate the Architecture to Business Stakeholders and Development teams

- Handle the technical part of Change Management

- Groom product scope with the team

- Maintain Architecture Decision Log

- Control infrastructure costs

- Perform Architecture Reviews

- Keep an eye on Technical Debt, find the way for the team to keep it as low as possible