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

About MLSDev

MLSDev is an IT-outsourcing company currently located in Vinnytsia and Kiev, Ukraine. We are a constantly growing team of experts: MLSDev comprises over 60 developers, designers and managers who work together and pursue a common goal of making successful and high-quality products for our customers.

Company website:
http://mlsdev.com/