For an International Institution, we are urgently looking for an experienced (Senior) Solutions Architect - Full remote with recent architecture experience in the development of solutions linking mobile (particularly Android) and server-side solutions..
Candidates need to be fluent in English. This positions is long-term open for contractors or employees. Work permit not required.
Tasks and responsibilities
- Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on the organization’s business strategy and business requirements;
- Analyze the current-state business/IT environment and solution portfolio to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement;
- Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models;
- Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the organization’s future-state architecture vision;
- Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance;
- Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations;
- Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture;
- Document all solution architecture design and analysis work;
- Collaborate with business focal points, PMO, project teams and IT staff in other functional areas as needed to fulfil the responsibilities described above;
Profile
- Bachelor or Master degree;
- +5 years of recent professional experience in IT solution development disciplines including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, software design, software architecture;
- Recent architecture experience in the development of solutions linking mobile (particularly Android) and server-side solutions;
- Proven leadership and decision-making skills;
- Experienced in architecture role on the successful delivery of complex cross-functional or interdependent projects, some of which should be at the global or international levels;
- Knowledge of all components of an enterprise technical architecture;
- Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture;
- Experienced in at least one of the most popular software development languages (e.g. JavaScript, Python, Java, C/C++, PHP or C#);
- Experienced with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) practices (and tools) such as code versioning, packaging, test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, test automation, code analysis and code quality metrics;
- Experienced in the design and development of complex mobile solutions (particularly Android);
- Experienced in designing and implementing service-oriented (ideally microservice) architectures;
- Experienced in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting infrastructure services (network, container, virtual machine or operating system levels);
- Experienced working with senior-level management;
- Fluent in English;
