Software Solution Architect

Designation: Chief Architect

Responsibilities

• Build high quality systems and applications that solve key challenges for the customer
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit and understand their requirements, challenges and develop potential solutions
• Proactively identify areas of improvements, come up with innovative solutions, and drive adoption
• Push boundaries on infrastructure and cost optimisation, reusability, simplicity and scalability • Own significant engineering projects end-to-end
• Sign-off on all significant architectures and technical designs regardless of front-end or back-end.
• Translate business requirements to tangible engineering deliverables
• Setup and streamline processes and introduce best practices to improve the overall efficiency and throughput of the engineering team
• Be an effective mentor and help in building capacity in the larger team, strategize and work towards helping junior engineers grow
• Stay current with latest tools, technologies, methodologies and ideas; spread the knowledge and conduct effective POCs to demonstrate applicability and benefits

Requirements

• 15+ years of strong experience in developing highly scalable backend and middle tier enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with large volume batch and real-time data processing applications
• Experience building enterprise SaaS applications. Strong knowledge of AWS.
• Programming Languages: Java (must have), Python (good to have)
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from premier institutes
• Strong in problem solving, data structures and algorithm design.
• Clear Object Oriented Design and Design Pattern concepts
• Significant experience working with non-functional requirements such as performance, security, compliance, automation etc.
• Experience developing AI-based solutions is a big plus.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail

·         Oversee the workflow and the workforce involved in the entire software development process ·         Responsibilities include creating strategies for optimal performance, coordinating with different teams and departments to identify strengths and weaknesses, implementing training and workshop programs, and liaising with external agencies, including key clients

1. Key Accountabilities

Application Development ·         Pioneer and drive Agile development practices, leading sprint teams and backlogs ·         Provide guidance to the team and ensure they adhere to development standards ·         Ensure team structure is optimized, and resources managed, to facilitate efficient project delivery - seamlessly integrate, mentor, and manage internal (remote) and external teams (contractors), continually monitoring quality and effectiveness ·         Innovation and product development – generate and facilitate ideas development, requirement gathering and user evaluation to continually develop new and exciting features and value add services ·         Balance competing priorities – have a good understanding of software technical debt and ensure we've got the right balance between paying it down, delivering new projects and offering outstanding customer support ·         Create and/or refine lean processes to ensure effective, scalable, and profitable workflows – identify and analyze problems and implement solutions. Ensure consistent and iterative delivery of high-impact, high-quality work ·         Ensure that the business objectives and customer requirements are at the heart of all processes and projects ·         Take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises - drive technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues and implement appropriate solutions Designers & Developers ·         Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software and is the go-to team for all aspects of maintenance starting with resolving software bugs, managing delivery of software and working on customer escalations ·         Work with product managers, designers & developers to translate internal and external customer and market requirements into a system, product, and technology roadmaps Vendor Sourcing & Management ·         Manage relationships with various technology vendors and contract agreements to ensure technically and economically efficient products and services are provided Application Management ·         Ensure new application upgrades or transformation are compliant with current applications, commercials involved in their upkeep and overlook the future need of applications and their upgrades from software development perspective ·         Ensure availability of in-house applications to business/ functional users as per requirement ·         Ensure that in-house application related incidents, events, problems, and service requests get closed in an efficient, consistent manner per the committed SLAs

1. Skills Required for the role

Strong leadership capabilities	Excellent client/customer service mindset
Excellent written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills	Project Management and Delivery skills
IT Product development knowledge	Analytical and inquisitive, with excellent attention to detail
Strong stakeholders’ management skills	Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment

Solution Architect

10+ years of experience in leading solution architecture & technical development. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a comparable field from an accredited institution.

Key Responsibilities

• Enable customer to realize their stated IT vision and strategy

• Lead development of solution architecture and design across a set of applications or an application/product family within an enterprise

• Provide guidance/consultancy for the execution and delivery of project from a solutioning and technology perspective

• Provide a strategic solutioning perspective to a project/engagement

• Demonstrate strong leadership skills and astuteness

• Design and Architect end to end solutions content that characterizes what products or services are being proposed and how these services will be delivered

• Estimate for Project or Program Management and or technical effort to drive scope and produce deliverables

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Deep understanding of the Software development, mobile development, application support, cloud, mobility and infra services.

• Should be proficient with the languages, tools, and frameworks core to software development, mobility iOS or Android development

• Demonstrate very strong skills in documenting architecture and preparing technical papers to explain architectural motivations/strategy or rationale

• Create technology focused roadmap for a set of projects within a program

• Must have an understanding of various Architectures and frameworks

• Produce estimates for the whole program using estimation methodologies and customizations appropriate to the program

• Work closely with project/program manager and advise on execution methodology/strategy, timelines, resources and project commercials

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Experience in agile methodologies and best practices

• Advanced knowledge of software and solution architecture
• High-level project management skills
• Ability to solve complex software system issues
• Well experienced with software design and web development
• Proficiency with JAVA, and strong front-end knowledge of HTML5, JSF, Angular, React
• Familiar or working experience with Apache Kafka working, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Deep understanding of 'under the hood' knowledge of frameworks worked on
• Work experience in implementing Unit Tests
• Work experience in applying the best practices of Design, Architecture and Application
• development
• Extensive experience with HTML5, CSS3, XML and JSON
• Thorough understanding of Reactive Programming, RxJS framework, Databases, API,
• Implementing of Caching and RESTful services
• Troubleshooting design and performance flaws and system bottlenecks
• Conducting system performance tests
• Working experience in an Agile team, especially with SCRUM
• Good understanding of DevOps, CI/CD principles and practices to improve Software
  
  Quality & Efficiency
• Following Skills will be an added advantage
• Work experience with Cloud Services like AWS and Azure
• Familiar with common microservices patterns
• Service / API test – to test endpoints as thoroughly as possible
• End to End integration test systemFeb.2021 - Technical Manager Requirement

Behavioral Skill

• Should be a quick learner with a problem-solving mindset
• Attention to detail and follow-through to achieve good quality
• Ability to work effectively in a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill

 

Job Overview The Solution Architect will be responsible for o Design solutions for the project that enable customer to meet their process/business goals o Leading the requirement session with client. o Development of solution architecture and design across a set of applications or application/product family within an enterprise. Duties and Responsibilities o Development of solution architecture and design across a set of applications or application/product family within an enterprise. o Enable customer to fulfil the stated project objectives o Lead solution of the product implementation o Support execution of project from solution perspective and technology perspective o Prepare and Review estimations o Support pre-sales o Support QC Skills / Attributes Required: Essential: o Strong P&C Insurance domain knowledge in North American. o Experience in UML based analysis and design using tools e.g. Rational Rose & Together J o Experience in setting up business rules and workflow engines o Design & Development experience with object oriented programming in JAVA technology stack o Experience in both high level as well as low level design o Should have conducted requirements sessions understanding customer’s business processes o Understand and use frameworks to design and review solutions for functional and non-functional requirements o Leading a team of software specialists / engineers for the creation / implementation of solution architecture for a product/application o Experience in any database with clear understanding of RDBMS concepts Desirable: o Experience in performance tuning of product/application o Exposure to design frameworks o Exposure to automation tools Functional Skills: o Understand the principles of accounting or commerce or finance Other skills: o Managing a team of 10-12 resources o Good communication as there would be a need to work closely with the customers o Ready to travel onsite for 2-3 months duration o Experience in Estimation methodologies

Technical Architect/CTO

• Experience in defining new architectures, design all layers of the solution, create architectural blueprints that can be used for final code development.
• Interface with client business/technical teams to understand complex requirements.
• Anticipate on technological evolutions(example use MySQL Lite not MS SQL, use C# not ASP, don't use JSF use Angular).
• Resolve technical issues.
• Bridge between Developers, Project Managers/Leads, and Client, ensuring smooth communication channel.
• Ensure quality of project implementation deployed.
• Provide technical guidance to projects/programs for complex components of a multiple technology suites.
• Ensuring documentation of the complete project architecture.
• Lead actions to determine root cause of problems and drive resolution.
• Participate in cross-functional work groups to assess business needs, develop a systems architecture strategy, and implementation plans.
• Leads work groups that are responsible for software development.
• Ensure that all components of the technical architecture are properly integrated and implemented by the development team.
• Coach the technical team in the development of the technical architecture and help them solve challenging technical problems
• Provide technical support and technical quality control throughout all stages of the project.
• Spearheads the development, implementation and communications of architecture roadmap strategies to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, secure, supportable, and achieve.
• Identify existing architecture weaknesses and find opportunities for process reengineering and perform cost benefit analysis

 

 

• Time Management- Organizes own workload to achieve maximum productivity and completes work in a timely and professional manner. Handles multiple short and long term modules by proper planning while anticipating potential problems and planning for contingencies.
• Identify high-potential team members for next level positions and creating learning and development plans for them.
• Enable strong process in place and reducing dependencies on individual.

 

Technical Skills and Qualification

• Excellent knowledge of Web technologies, Java, Javascript, Contact center environment.
• Experience of current technologies including Open Source, J2EE (JSP, Servlet, JSP, etc.), web application development, web services (REST/SOAP/XML), Rich Internet Applications, messaging infrastructures and databases.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new tools and applications.
• Should be comfortable for 40%-60% coding.
• Able to convert requirements into executable code
• 9 to 12 yrs experience
• Qualification: BE/B-Tech /MCA or any equivalent degree

 

Desirables

• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Ability to lead discussions with all levels of the organization and provide balanced information of an idea or communication of an issue regardless of written or verbal
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across project teams.
• Having Analytical and problem-solving
• Ability to translate complex requirements into functional and Technical architecture
• Experience managing the technology aspect of multiple complex projects
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions and Assist team members in complex task
• Willing to take ownership and being accountable.
• Openness, communicates honestly, openly, and consistently.
• Positive Attitude encourages a positive rather than negative viewpoint.
• Integrity maintains the highest standard of personal conduct in performing all duties.
• Should be a good listener.
• Dependable, can be relied upon to get the job done.
• Able to avoid mistakes that could/should be anticipated.
• Should be able sense and grab the opportunities to innovate and improvise.
• Very high competence in presentation skills.
• Negotiator: Excellent negotiation skills which comes handy in hard selling new ideas/ new technical implementations etc.
• Risk Management: Should be able to take calculated risks in trying out new technical implementation avenues
• Able to communicate the org level vision to the team effectively

About Artivatic :Artivatic is technology startup that uses AI/ML/Deeplearning to build intelligent products & solutions for finance, healthcare & insurance businesses. It is based out of Bangalore with 20+ team focus on technology. Artivatic building is cutting edge solutions to enable 750 Millions plus people to get insurance, financial access and health benefits with alternative data sources to increase their productivity, efficiency, automation power and profitability, hence improving their way of doing business more intelligently & seamlessly. Artivatic offers lending underwriting, credit/insurance underwriting, fraud, prediction, personalization, recommendation, risk profiling, consumer profiling intelligence, KYC Automation & Compliance, automated decisions, monitoring, claims processing, sentiment/psychology behaviour, auto insurance claims, travel insurance, disease prediction for insurance and more. We have raised US $300K earlier and built products successfully and also done few PoCs successfully with some top enterprises in Insurance, Banking & Health sector. Currently, 4 months away from generating continuous revenue.What We are Looking for?- We are looking experienced, seasoned technology professional or entrepreneur who have hands on building deep-tech/SaaS products. - Someone who think to build next billion dollar tech enterprise company based out of India which can solve finance/insurance/healthcare problem at massive scale. Someone who live for code and breathe for code. Skills/Experience :- More than 5+ years technology product building experience - Have either worked in startups or in large enterprises for scalable products- Knowledge in SCALA/Java/Python/Cassandara/Deeplearning/AI/ML/architecture- Data science/Algorithms/Statistics/Mathematics expert - Someone looking to build next billion dollar enterprise - Hands on-coding experience - Willing to work with small team- Willing to work in startup environment - Ability to lead technology team, execute projects well- Building innovative product ideas, algorithms and development - Someone who can built exceptional tech team, convert business problems in to technology solutions - Someone who think to start own companyCompensation & Equity :- Being startup, compensation is not high. Equity 3-4%. CTO Can also invest in company to buy more equity if want based on current valuation with some discount on it.

We're looking for a CTO who can take complete ownership of Tech Team and hustle and get shit done while building and scaling our product at inFeedo. Our ask is a burning desire for scale, relentless passion and a Jordon Belfort (from Wolf of Wall Street) like fearless confident attitude that leaves a lasting impression. MUST HAVES: 1) 7+ years of experience in Managing a Tech Team for a Saas product 2) Extremely strong communication skills 3) Has outstanding technical aptitude and a proven past record for team to draw inspiration 4) Has experience handling security and performance issues in small business 5) Has previous experience in MEAN stack, AWS and have worked on integrations 6) Capable of getting problem statement solved given only time and budget. (Take calls on getting new team members, firing existing ones etc) 7) Great with people management skills ^ Those without these skill sets will not be accepted. Brownie Points: Experience in scaling a small startup to a profitable mid size SAAS business 5 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 1)Set/adapt the vision for Tech, work with Product & Business team to understand their perspective 2) Align and mentor developers into right approach towards solving the problem 3) Proactively pre-empt technical issues wrt architecture, performance, security and Tech debt 4) Hire the right team, fire the wrong team 5) Be the SPOC for technical department, come on consensus with Product and Business team to bring best of Sales, Product and Tech

Want the thrill of working for an exciting tech start-up while being paid a market-rate salary in addition to receiving equity? Want to help bring real invention, having ownership of the entire technical development team creating a complex product? Want to work on problems at the national level concerning infrastructure issues? Read on!

Strong Technical focussed Technical Architect