Description

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

Major responsibilities

– Support team members so that they grow abilities and strengthen capabilities.

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

– Help with writing the technical section of functional specifications for new product development.

– Oversee the timeline for product development.

– Create, design, and document solutions to product specifications for shared capabilities throughout the architecture.

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

– Help with product release planning and assessing feature viability/effort.

– Establish and improve development standards, guidelines, procedures, processes, and metrics.

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

– Play an important role in code development for web-based n-tier applications.

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

– Carry out other related duties as assigned by management.

– Lead code reviews, calling out best practices and steps for increased stability and capability.

 

Requirements

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

 

– Ability to work independently and lead small teams.

 

– Capable of decomposing and prioritizing components of large systems.

 

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

 

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

 

– Consulting experience with business analysis, data management, system architecture, and distributed technologies.

 

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

 

– BA/BS in Software Engineering or Computer Science.

 

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

 

– Ability to complete multiple tasks and projects within deadlines.

 

– Software development language skills preferred.

 

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

 

– Desire to learn new technologies related to the Web and application development.

 

– Strong understanding of database design.

 

– Demonstrated capability to evaluate existing architecture, documenting issues and suggested improvements.