The Role
We are looking for a Senior Application/Solutions Architect to join Solera’s Global Architecture team based Virtually in India. The Architect will support development teams in designing and developing software products, guiding best practice and following our Global Standards. They should have no problem rolling up their sleeves to aid the teams to deliver, meeting with clients help gather requirements or diving deep into data modelling with business analysts. This Role in the Global architecture team will give you the opportunity to work a wide range of products, and many different technologies, from cloud server-less to legacy migrations and modernization.
What You’ll Do
- Work across a geographically split team to deliver global standard solutions.
- Promote the adoption of our standard enterprise architecture and technology stacks across the organization, eliminating technology risks and unsupported technologies.
- Identify, design and develop technical assets and components to be used across our many products.
- Work closely with Engineering to align the enterprise architecture with a continuous delivery / deployment SDLC
- Support Development Teams and Product Owners to define and execute technology roadmaps for their products
- Provide guidance and training to development squads, transferring skills and knowledge to team members
- Research, prototype and evangelize innovative technologies and solutions and communicate them verbally and via written document
- Participate in the definition of the enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap
What You’ll Bring
- Professional proficiency in English
- 6 -8 years' experience at an expert level proficiency in: JAVA or C#. (You were or are a Senior Developer/Tech lead)
- Expertise building large scale web applications including use of Domain Driven Design, Microservices, API First and Event Driven architecture patterns.
- Expertise using relational and non-relational databases, such as Oracle, Postgres, MSSQL or MongoDB
- Knowledge of application security, authentication & authorization using patterns such as OAuth and OpenID Connect
- Knowledge of DevOps and Continuous Deliver/Deployment methodologies, implemented using tools such as Helm, Jenkins, GitHub Azure Dev Ops
- Knowledge of Consumer Driven, TDD, BDD and Automated Testing Practices
- Expertise using interfacing data access layers for SQL and NoSQL systems including Queueing and Caching.
Demonstrated ability to:
- Ability communicate technical designs and objectives to large groups of people in person and via tele-presence, covering both technical and non-technical groups.
- Systems thinking - the ability to see how parts interact with big picture thinking.
- Expertise with containerization both in Data Centers and Cloud Platforms such as Azure, Amazon, and/or Google Cloud.
- Ability to clearly communicate technical designs and objectives to large groups of people in person and via tele-presence
- Systems thinking - the ability to see how parts interact with the whole (Systems thinking big picture thinking)
How you work
- Mentor others and work effectively as part of a team.
- Interpersonal and supervision skills - servant leadership, collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
- Champion team success over personal accomplishment
- Enthusiastic about learning and continuous improvement
- Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to multitasking and quick learning.
- Initiative-taking and be able work without supervision.
- Technical curiosity, and a can-do attitude
- It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.
