Description

The Application Architect organizes the lifecycle of new development on future and existing products. This includes managing daily product development efforts, designing product architecture, and reviewing product requirements. You will be responsible for managing complex interactions between business processes and technologies as well as translating product specifications into production level applications.

How you will make an impact

– Invent and document solutions to product specifications for shared capabilities throughout the architecture.

– Lead code reviews — identifying best practices and efficiency steps for increased stability and capability.

– Aid in writing the technical section of functional specifications for new product development.

– Guide team members to grow abilities and strengthen capabilities.

– Give technical and non-technical mentorship and oversight to developers.

– Design, establish, and maintain technical architecture standards and develop cross-product frameworks and best practices.

– Get hands-on with code development for web-based n-tier applications.

– Assist in product release planning and helps assess feature viability/effort.

– Complete other related duties as assigned by management.

– Determine and progress development standards, guidelines, procedures, processes, and metrics.

– Own the product development timeline.

– Collaborate with the product team to understand requirements and create functionality specifications.

– Manage the deployment of alpha and beta releases during the stabilization of new product development.

 

Requirements

– Experience in a consulting environment with business analysis, data management, system architecture, and distributed technologies.

– 5+ years of experience in team management in a related field.

– Vow to meet business deadlines

– Understanding of common software development languages is preferred.

– Aptness to create, debug, secure, test, and optimize code for multiple web-based applications and services.

– Capacity to examine architecture and record issues and suggested improvements.

– Knowledge of database design.

– BA/BS in Software Engineering or Computer Science.

– 10+ years of experience in application development, software design, and architecture.

– Skilled in oral and written communication, including presentation experience.

– Experience with threading, asynchronous event handling, data binding, scripting and query languages/tools.

– Capable of decomposing and prioritizing components of large systems.

– Capable of learning new technologies related to the Web and application development.

– Must be able to work independently and lead small teams.

– Experience with creating realistic plans, goals, and aligning plans with company goals, managing resources, and creating contingency plans.