Description
The Application Architect will oversee the lifecycle of new development on existing and future products. This includes managing daily product development efforts, designing product architecture, and reviewing product requirements. 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.

Responsibilities

– Own the product development timeline.

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

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

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

– Perform other related duties as assigned by management.

– Create, establish, and sustain technical architecture standards and develop cross-product frameworks and best practices.

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

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

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

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

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

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

– Define and evolve development standards, guidelines, procedures, processes, and metrics.
Requirements
– Capable of creating realistic plans, goals, and aligning plans with company goals, managing resources, and creating contingency plans.

– BA/BS in Software Engineering or Computer Science.

– Ability to complete multiple tasks and projects within deadlines

– Strong understanding of database design.

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

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

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

– Comfortable leading small teams and working independently.

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

– Understanding of common software development languages is preferred.

– Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation experience.

– Experience decomposing and prioritizing components of large systems.

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

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

– Knowledge in threading, asynchronous event handling, data binding, scripting and query languages/tools.