Solutions Architect

Description:

Are you a skilled Solution Architect looking for your next challenge? Our team is looking for someone like you to help shape the future of tech! You'll work with a dynamic team of professionals who are passionate about innovation and are dedicated to providing the best solutions for our clients. From designing and implementing custom solutions to staying up-to-date with emerging trends, you'll be at the forefront of the industry. If you're ready to take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you! Main areas of responsibility include:Directing Solution Software Architecting, Programming, and Documentation Development Processes across a number of teams that consist of Developers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Architects, and Tech Leads.Control and manage choices available during development by choosing a standard way of pursuing application development by creating, defining, or choosing an application framework best suited for the engaged and client.Recognize potential reuse in the organization or in the application by observing and understanding the broader system environments and ecosystems, creating component designs showing knowledge of other applications across the iOCO landscape.Where appropriate, subdivide complex applications and solutions, during the design phase, into smaller, more manageable pieces during client engagement processes.Understand the interactions and dependencies among components, teams and clients.Carry accountability for the quality of the final product and projects.Responsible for technical growth and mentorship across various iOCO teams, inclusive of recruitment and retention of technical team members.Where appropriate, provision required skills, select an appropriate deployment model, direct testing protocols to validate releases and monitor performance after releases.Experience and expertise:At least 10 years’ experience in Software Development with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in leading software development teams with hands-on architectural and distributed systems experience.Experience with delivering software projects using Agile / Scrum methodologies.A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, and co-dependent projects.Must be able to assist strategically in advising on new technology.Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and business executives.Strong problem-solving abilities.Proven track record of multi-tasking between business development, client-side delivery, and people management.Solid exposure in back-end, front-end and integration development.Must have a good understanding of DevOps implementations and disciplines such as: Continuous Integration/Continuous DeliveryAutomated Environment Provisioning using Docker and/or Kubernetes (Containerisation software) (advantageous)Ability to evaluate overall architecture of an application, looking for structural quality, best practices, code quality.Must have solid experience with the DevOps