Lead Application And Product Architect - Microsoft Stack

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand and stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Accelerate adoption of new technologies, prototype new initiatives and develop proof of concepts utilizing the latest technologies.
• Act as a champion of quality across the development teams through best practice sharing and reviews of designs and code.
• Develop comprehensive development standards to make our development approach and environment consistent and maintainable across the developer community.
• Provide thought leadership, architectural and design reviews and oversee enforcement of standards through design and code reviews.
• Able to effectively communicate with a variety of parties by tailoring message for intended audience
• Understand and stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to work with product management and the architecture team to determine potential fit for technologies to address market problems, enhance the product and speed delivery of new features to market.
• Accelerate adoption of new technologies, prototype new initiatives and develop proof of concepts utilizing the latest technologies
• Act as a champion of quality across the development teams through best practice sharing and reviews of designs and code
• Provide thought leadership, architectural and design reviews and oversee enforcement of standards through design and code review with development teams
• Designs and implement solutions to market problems
• Provides guidance and coaching to team members on designs, explaining key concepts to adhere to during implementation, as well as general mentoring on application functionality and technology best practices.
• Translates software requirements into concise and robust programming
• Participates in planning, code reviews, and iteration demos by attending and fully engaging in meetings
• Provides tier 4 support for customer issues
• Maintains documentation
  
  
  

• Proven experience as a software architect for 5+ years.
• Minimum 12+ years developing applications –preferably web based - in a .NET environment with C# as the primary language.
• Practical experience developing solutions with cloud vendors including PaaS services and containers, with deep domain knowledge in Azure (preferably) or AWS.
• Deep knowledge of architectural and design patterns for business tier and web development
• In-depth and practical .NET (Framework and Core) development experience including a deep technical understanding of the framework
• Practical experience developing modular systems with loosely coupled architecture
• Experience architecting scalable, performant and secure solutions in a hosted/SaaS environment
• Strong development experience with ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, WebAPI and modern front-end frameworks (i.e. VueJS)
• Experience with Web application security, OWASP, Application Security best practices
• Outstanding communication skills
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience migrating monolithic applications to modern, modular and loosely couple systems
• Experience developing software for a commercial product
• Experience modelling relational database schemas using industry standard best practices
• Experience with accounting and/or audit industry concepts
• Experience with infrastructure (networking, firewalls and SEIM) and continuous delivery concepts.
  
  
  

• Minimal, approximately 5% of work time, to training and user conferences.