Key Responsibilities
High Level Design
- Develops architectural blueprints, conceptual models, and designs for software systems, ensuring they meet business needs and technical requirements. Proactively identify technical debt and develop design and approach to mitigate and resolve them in a timely manner.
Technology Selection
- Makes decisions about the technologies, frameworks, libraries and tools to be used in a project. Evaluates and helps conclude across internal and external choices.
SDLC Standards
- Establishes and enforces coding, deployment and monitoring standards and best practices for the engineering team.
Collaboration
- Works closely with product and engineering stakeholders to define requirements and ensure alignment throughout the project. Helps quantify the risk and impact of existing technical debt and prioritise resolving and mitigating them in a timely manner.
Technical Leadership
- Provides technical guidance, mentorship and support to the development team.
Problem Solving
- Identifies and resolves critical technical issues, ensuring the software system is robust and functional whenever the team needs support.
Documentation
- Creates technical documentation to ensure the project is well-defined and understood by all stakeholders.
Skills and Qualifications
Deep Technical Knowledge
- Extensive experience in software development across transactional and big data systems with a foundational understanding of various technologies and methodologies. Comfortable with multiple programming languages and paradigms, familiarity with relational and NoSQL data stores, streaming technology.
Problem-Solving
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve technical issues.
Communication
- Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Project Management
- Familiarity with project management methodologies and techniques, including Agile and Scrum.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor s Degree
- At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience (internship experience does not apply)
- At least 1 year of experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Preferred Qualifications
- Master s Degree
- At least 5 years of experience in at least one of the following: Java, Python, Javascript (TypeScript)
- At least 3 years of experience with AWS or any other cloud service
- Familiarity with project management experience - stakeholder management, delivery and timeline management etc.
- At least 2 years of experience in Agile practices
