Software Architecture Manager

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads a team of software architects providing services and architectures that enable the development of resilient scalable software. Manages the day-to-day operations of the software architecture area.
• Provides leadership guidance and coaching to the architecture team(s) responsible for creating and supporting architectures.
• Develops implements and maintains a team organization that ensures skills and capacity for project and enhancement work while providing superior support for devlopment teams utilizing the architecture.
• Partners with the principal and senior architects and software engineers to drive the development and curation of the architecture.
• Builds relationships and collaborates with application delivery teams to provide architecture services and support.
• Ensures that the team of architects follow sound practices and processes that remain consistent with the established architecture.
• Leads the planning and implementation of large complex work efforts.
• Maintains knowledge of key Uline business processes supported by our applications and technology.
• Ensures requests for software architecture services are understood prioritized and addressed.
• Maintains productive management level relationships with the companys business functions.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the activities enumerated above.

Experience:

• 10 years application development experience
• 5 years leading software architects.
• Experience managing architects curating software architectures for custom development and packaged software implementations.
• Experience with both custom application software development and packaged software implementations.
• Experience in waterfall and agile development processes.

Competencies/Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including ability to present complex topics in terms relatable to business partners.
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems determine appropriate actions and complete projects with little direction.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and thrive in a multi-project environment while ensuring production systems are up and performing well.
• May require travel to branch and international locations.
• Exhibits qualities such as being decisive organized empathetic and dedicated.
• Strong prior experience with management of architectures leverging a distributed micro-services architecture developed in Java JavaScript or C#.
• Ability to motivate and inspire team members. Well-developed coaching and performance management skills.