Senior Architect Decoder UI Development at MultiChoice

Key Performance Objectives

Operational Delivery:

• Participates in pre-product discussions with stakeholders
• Suggests product requirements for existing technologies
• Contributes to product proposals
• Writes and maintains technical requirements specifications (functional, non-functional)
• Reviews requirements specifications
• Is responsible for identifying & resolving technical risks
• Advises stakeholders on what MCA systems can do and also impact on wider scope of E2E system
• Monitors the evolution of standards that are relevant to the business / projects
• Assists Project & Product management in defining phases
• Active role in Change Request / Enhancement requests process for technical impact assessments
• Breaks down product use cases into technical system / component use cases
• Leads the core team for systems / components based on existing products to meet the customer needs
• Defines and reviews system architecture & component specification documents
• Defines and reviews interface documents
• Defines and reviews the interfaces with third party suppliers
• Performs analysis of requirements including gap analysis
• Reviews list of materials (BOM) impacted by design
• Provides guidance on requirements and system architecture to Developers, QC, Systems Integration & Systems Engineers
• Ensures the delivered solution meets the business technical requirements for moderately complex systems
• Responsible for identifying & resolving technical issues
• Reviews lower-level component design
• Provides input to the analysis of in-field issues & defects
• Breaks down high level use cases into component level use cases, identifying modules impacted
• Seeks clarification from system & solution architects as well as product team
• Contributes to requirements reviews
• Breaks down requirements into use cases for component backlogs
• Works with product team (BAs) to understand functional & user requirements / behavior 
• Responsible for the component design including some of the following:
• Design patterns and framework to use
• Implementation technologies
• Third-party or Open source components
• Internal modules design & interactions
• Collaborates on Interface Definitions / APIs with other component providers
• Considers trade-off between design sophistication and time-to market when making architectural decisions
• Tracks design decisions that result in technical debt
• Owns the evolution of the component design / architecture 
• Ensures implementation respects rules of agreed framework
• Applies best practices of software design
• Involved in implementing the design, often writing framework code / foundation architecture
• Offers guidance to developers, QA & Integration teams
• Provides training on component if needed
• Participates in ongoing Change Request Processes

Qualifications

• B.Sc (Electronic and/or Computer Engineering) or similar qualification.
• Postgraduate or PhD in the fields of Software or Hardware Engineering (optional).  
• Relevant industry wide patents preferred.
• TOGAF certification preferable.

Experience

• Typically, 12+ years of appropriate experience in embedded software design/development, preferably STB.
• Excellent hands-on experience with Architecting and Designing for Embedded Devices. 
• Strong knowledge of embedded software development, integration, debugging/troubleshooting, testing, configuration, support and maintenance processes with multiple vendor components.
• Strong knowledge of core Java language.
• Strong knowledge of Web technologies (e.g. WS, RESTful, etc.) and scripting languages (e.g. HTML, Javascript, CSS etc.)
• Strong knowledge networking technologies, protocols such as - HTTP, WS, FTP, UDP, UPnP, RTSP, RTP.
• Strong knowledge of embedded hardware systems, real-time & Linux operating systems.
• Strong knowledge of Database Design and Management tools (SQLite, etc.).
• Strong experience in Systems Design Methodologies (UML and other Modelling Techniques).
• Experience in Mentoring and Leading Technical Design Teams and good with Whitepapers and Technical presentations
• Exposure to various SDLC methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, DevOps etc.
• Nice to have knowledge of embedded C/C++ languages.
• Experience with Architectural design tools like Enterprise Architect, IBM Rational or similar. 
• Experience with SDLC Tools, e.g. IBM Jazz, Jira, HP Quality Centre
• Nice to have of Hardware Design and Components for STB..

Technical Competencies  

• Strategic Thinking
• Analytical Thinking
• Accountability
• Teamwork
• Delegation
• Clear Communication
• Perseverance
• Motivating
• Prioritization