Our client is a public technology company, with 20 years of experience of working with some of the world’s leading Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Retail companies. Through the Digital Evolution, Agile Transformation and Automation solutions, they help their clients be more engaging, responsive and efficient by supporting them from ideation to production.

They have over 5,000 employees located in offices in North America and Western Europe and delivery centers in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Colombia.

Along with investing in long-term customer relationships, they recognized the importance of providing rewarding and challenging careers for people and, by doing so, has established itself as the employer of choice in certain regions.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a dynamic and highly experienced technical leader with outstanding client-facing skills. As a Lead Architect, you will be taking an active technical leadership role on projects to deliver solutions to our clients, and also be heavily involved in pre-sales efforts and in mentoring the company’s technical staff. Candidates will be evaluated on:

1. Hands on technical skills
2. Client-facing & sales skills
3. Breadth & length of experience
   

In this role you must be confident in engaging in a range of conversations with senior client management and staff, have the ability to lead discussions and workshops, have the technical ability to both architect and design complex enterprise solutions as well as talk clients through your concepts, and the technical experience to code Proof of Concept systems and contribute code to MVP projects.

Main Duties:

The key architecture activities you will be involved in include:

1. Supporting pre-sales and ‘pitch’ activity by providing technical and solution expertise to the sales team and participating in sales calls to clients.
2. Actively shaping scope, requirements, technical details and staffing of projects
3. Developing architectural solutions in collaboration with clients. Reviewing and validating solutions produced by clients.
4. Coding POCs and contributing to MVP solutions.
5. Working with company’s teams on design and estimation tasks
6. Mentoring delivery teams to improve their technical ability and processes
7. Broadening company’s knowledge base in emerging technology areas such as IoT, Augmented Reality, Blockchain systems, bot-based solutions, machine-learning etc.
8. The candidate should be prepared for travel within the Central region to our client’s sites for sales meetings and limited engagement work.
9. In some cases, the Lead Architect may be required to be present on client sites within the Central region for extended periods up to several months.
10. There will be very occasional travel to our Delivery Units in Central America, Central Europe and/or Eastern Europe for short periods at a time or our close-to-client centers elsewhere in the U.S. as well as Western Europe and into APAC.

Requirements:

Essential:

1. 15+ years of experience in delivering quality software solutions
2. Exceptional client-facing communications skills, both written and verbal
3. Expertise with architecting, designing, delivering large systems implemented in one or more popular technology stacks (including those based on Java, .Net, Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc).
4. Very strong object-oriented analysis skills
5. Experience in pre-sales efforts and running client engagements from a technical perspective
6. Extensive experience in application architectures
7. Understands a broad range of architectural patterns and styles (e.g. SOA, Microservices, etc)
8. Experience in modernizing legacy architectures
9. In-depth knowledge of one or more cloud platforms (eg. AWS, Azure)
10. Knowledge of database architectures, data modeling, SQL and NoSQL approaches.
11. Proficiency in creating a broad range of architecture documentation
12. Ability to conduct in-depth design reviews of large systems
13. Understanding of DevOps culture, practices and tools

Desirable:

1. Enterprise Architecture experience
2. Advanced degree in computer science or related field
3. Knowledge of functional programing in one or more languages
4. Experience with one or more leading SaaS platforms such as Salesforce.com
5. Exposure to offshore development using both agile and other delivery techniques
6. In-depth knowledge with one or more complex technical domains, including Distributed Cache Solutions, Master Data Management, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Visualization, Augmented Reality, Internet of things, etc.
7. Experience with Data Warehouse, ETL, dashboard, and associated reporting solutions is a big plus
8. Experience with one or more CMS platforms such as Sitecore or others.
9. Wide exposure to a variety of computer languages (e.g. Go, Rust, Ruby, Python, etc).
10. Experience with Continuous Delivery
11. Experience working in the Media, Healthcare, Financial, Pharma, or Retail sectors
12. Public speaking experience

Offer and Benefits:

Opportunity to work in a Global Organization

Career Development opportunities

Work/Life benefits

Travel opportunities

Competitive salary package

Training opportunities

Robust benefits package which includes options for:

• Health Care Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short / Long Term Disability
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical, Transit, and Dependent Care)
• Paid Life Insurance and AD&D Coverage
• Wellness Benefits