Senior Cloud Software Architect

Our client is seeking a senior cloud technologist to take an integral part of designing and developing a strategic application suite platform for the next generation of its products. The Senior Software Cloud Architect will work closely with business and technology partners to design and implement distributed, microservices-driven enterprise SaaS software products. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience delivering scalable enterprise platforms through public cloud. The candidate should have a background in Cloud API architecture, web services, asynchronous and distributed messaging architectures, and scalable SOA implementations. The ability to work in collaboration with others, under high pressure, developing new interfaces needed for the systems identified for objectives.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities shall include, but not limited to, plan, coordinate and perform all activities related to the architecture, design, development, and deployment of solutions and product road map.

Lead the software development teams in cultural change for cloud adoption.
Develop a cloud strategy and coordinate the implementation, adaptation, and adoption processes.
Establish best practices for cloud architecture and software development across the development teams.
Plan information architecture by studying the application concept, strategy, and target audience; envisioning architectural scheme, information structure and features, functionality, and user-interface design; creating user scenarios; preparing data models; designing information structure, work- and data flow, and navigation; evaluating information representation.
Enhance information architecture team accomplishments and competence by planning delivery of solutions; teaching improved processes; mentoring team members; meeting with focus groups and analyzing and adopting the current technology trends.
Organize information by translating user behavior into media structure and elements; crafting interactive experiences; producing workflow diagrams, user scenarios, flowcharts, and storyboards; preparing interaction specifications, navigation rules, organization of information; coordinating with business, technology, and visual strategists.
Implement information and platform architecture by preparing prototypes and mock-ups; coordinating with Product Management to integrate concept, information and data flows, interface, and navigational structure; documenting structure and processes.
Update job knowledge by tracking research regarding product architecture, design, and usability; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; and participating in professional organizations.
Enhance organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Experience

1 Bachelors degree in a related technical field from an accredited college or university or comparable professional experience
2 10+ years of software architecture and development experience with strong hands-on skills, expert level understanding of architecture and design patterns with a solid understanding of public cloud infrastructure services, object-oriented design, and programming (required)
3 5+ most recent years of B2B, B2C or SaaS software product architecture and development experience with expert level understanding of product design and development principles (required)
4 5+ years of experience in implementing enterprise projects as a lead architect covering technical and architectural assessments, services, analytics, security, testing, and deployment
5 10+ years of experience developing ASP.NET solutions leveraging SOA (in particular ReST services) for synchronous and asynchronous communications between components
6 Expert level understanding of data-driven applications, dynamic and event-based architectures is required
7 Expertise in .NET technologies, ReST- and microservices and client-side integration via JSON for interfacing and building required services (APIs) to communicate with existing product suite
8 .Net Core-based microservices architecture expertise required
9 Advanced skills in enterprise data-driven solutions dependent on external content through ReST web services, push notifications, message queue and ESB-based solutions, etc.
10 Advanced skills in both relational (SQL Server, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis) databases, in-memory caching, and optimization
11 Expertise in asynchronous, pub/sub data delivery models and principles, message bus and ESB technologies, event-driven architecture, and solutions
12 Expertise in building distributed scalable systems based on docker containers and orchestration through Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.
13 Advanced knowledge of public cloud architecture and offerings (Azure preferred, AWS, Google Cloud, etc. are a plus), including the serverless architecture, enterprise service bus, scale on demand, DBaaS, IaaS, etc.
14 Extensive expertise in migrating web-based solutions to public cloud, primarily to Azure
15 Expert knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
16 Strong organization skills to manage multiple timelines and complete tasks quickly within the constraints of project timelines and budgets
17 Familiar with UML concepts and Agile methodologies such as SCRUM and TDD a plus
18 A client-orientation / public-facing mobile applications approach to building solutions.