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You are recognized as growing leaders in the field of architecture. You develop architectures for complex projects that significantly impact the businesses of your employers or clients. You identify client needs, apply industry knowledge, and devise business and technology solutions to address those needs. You are able to deliver effectively across multiple business units and geographies?

Responsibilities

• Engage and collaborate with business SMEs, CTOs and technical teams to understand business opportunities pain points, and define, refine and execute architecture vision
• Design high-volume, low-latency architectures for mission-critical applications that deliver high-availability and performance
• Ensure that architecture vision is clearly communicated to business leadership and delivery teams
• Provide architectural oversight throughout all phases of the IT project lifecycle
• Design secure, performant and resilient microservices within a globally dispersed, multi-tenant, cloud architecture
• Define target state architecture and develop phased roadmaps that front load business value and deliver critical capabilities
• Ensure that implemented solutions align with technical vision and comply with architecture design principles and best practices

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Experience working on large, transformational projects and a proven ability to bring disparate technical teams together around a shared architectural vision
• Must have repeated experience successfully directing significantly complex architecture initiatives, developing solutions that typically involve different stakeholders, multiple lines of business, many solution varieties, business transformations, international and/or global scale
• Must have repeated experience in setting and driving architecture goals and objectives for significant business initiatives
• Must have made contributions to the architecture function within their company, such as development of training, or contributions to standards and best practices.  They must also contribute to the development of other architects through teaching, coaching, and/or mentoring?
• Strong communication skills and an ability to document and communicate complex architectural solutions in both business and technical terms
• Excellent knowledge of NoSQL (mongo DB) & Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Experience designing resilient and highly performant integrations in a globally distributed environment
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architecture
• Strong knowledge of Cloud Architecture with practical experience working in Azure, Google or AWS

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