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 serverside solutions..
Candidates need to be fluent in English. This positions is longterm 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 organizations business strategy and business requirements;
- Analyze the currentstate 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 organizations futurestate 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 serverside solutions;
- Proven leadership and decisionmaking skills;
- Experienced in architecture role on the successful delivery of complex crossfunctional 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 testdriven 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 serviceoriented (ideally microservice) architectures;
- Experienced in designing implementing and troubleshooting infrastructure services (network container virtual machine or operating system levels);
- Experienced working with seniorlevel management;
- Fluent in English;
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