Application Architect at iOCO

Main areas of responsibility include:

• Directing Solution & Software Architecting, Programming, and Documentation Development Processes across a number of teams that consist of Developers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Architects, and Tech Leads.
• Control and manage choices available during development by choosing a standard way of pursuing application development by creating, defining, or choosing an application framework best suited for the engaged and client.
• Recognize potential reuse in the organization or in the application by observing and understanding the broader system environments and ecosystems, creating component designs showing knowledge of other applications across the iOCO landscape.
• Where appropriate, subdivide complex applications and solutions, during the design phase, into smaller, more manageable pieces during client engagement processes.
• Understand the interactions and dependencies among components, teams and clients.
• Carry accountability for the quality of the final product and projects.
• Responsible for technical growth and mentorship across various iOCO teams, inclusive of recruitment and retention of technical team members.
• Where appropriate, provision required skills, select an appropriate deployment model, direct testing protocols to validate releases and monitor performance after releases.

Skills and Experience

Experience and expertise:

• At least 10 years’ experience in Software Development with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in leading software development teams with hands-on architectural and distributed systems experience.
• Experience with delivering software projects using Agile / Scrum methodologies.
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, and co-dependent projects.
• Must be able to assist strategically in advising on new technology.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and business executives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
• Strong problem-solving abilities.
• Proven track record of multi-tasking between business development, client-side delivery, and people management.
• Solid exposure in back-end, front-end and integration development.
• Must have a good understanding of DevOps implementations and disciplines such as: