Application Architect

Position summary :

Application Architect (.Net and Azure) - Manager

The Application Architect is involved in many aspects of a customer engagement; from the collaboration with other team members and customers to determine the best solution for a particular engagement to the design, development and delivery of software products in Azure Cloud Platform. Architect owns every technical aspect of the project(s) and acts as the liaison between the customer and the development team in leading the projects, managing releases, requirements and product backlogs from the technical standpoint.

Work youll do :

A unique opportunity to be a passionate, innovative, results-oriented technology leader with heart-deep commitment to success to be a part of our Solutions Delivery team. This role requires web application architecture design leadership for various lines of business and enterprise applications.

Responsible for web application architecture, service architecture, and technical design for high performance and scalability in a distributed, multi-tier and cross-platform mobile environment. Regularly supervises the day-to-day activities of a group of employees. Responsible for providing individual contributions, providing design and architecture to the team, assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring application of policies and procedures. May also be responsible for performing the work being supervised from the technical standpoint. The key responsibilities, academic and skill set requirements and experience are as follows :

Responsibilities :

- Providing technical and architectural leadership for Microsoft .NET web applications by leveraging Azure Cloud services

- Create Architecture and Design documentation for the applications and present them to the review board

- Collaborating frequently with clients to provide cloud solutions and assistance; and working with these customers to understand their requirements for cloud implementations that add the most value to their business.

- Create functional design specifications, Azure reference architectures, design documents and assist with other project deliverables as needed.

- Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on Azure that address customers' requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance and leverage existing investments in Azure platforms.

- Designing, developing, implementing, and releasing high quality custom software solutions using Scrum.

- Creating project and application architecture deliverables that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices.

- Leading technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed.

- Applying the very best technical agile patterns and practices when building custom software solutions including applying right cloud design patterns and cloud native application principals

- Working under some supervision from a Solution Architect, but will be expected to work independently on complex, non-routine tasks and projects. You may interact with end users and other technical personnel to identify and correct issues.

- Maintain continuous, open, consistent professional communication with customers, peers and team members. Openly listen to others and confirm understanding to ensure everyone is on the same page.

- Reviewing and approving 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.

- Communicating implications of architectural decisions, issues and plans to business and IT Leadership.

- Defining and validating non-functional (technical) requirements, and establishing traceability between requirements and application architecture/design.

- Providing support / guidance to the development teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes.

- Providing input to the development of project initiation documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, and deliverables, when needed.

- Working closely with Performance Engineering and our Web/Infrastructure Technology teams on defining the deployment architecture.

- Participating, and technically leading when needed, production troubleshooting and 'War Room' Activities.

- Learn, learn, and learn by staying up-to-date on all technical developments related to Azure and other public cloud platforms.

- This role is expected to generally work in India business hours with occasional off-hours status meetings with the on-shore team

- Participating and leading production troubleshooting and 'War Room' Activities when needed from technology front.

- Seeking and capitalizing on the opportunities to improve productivity, improving time-to-market, improving solutions quality, and improving cost effectiveness.

Skill sets : have) : Education qualification : BE /B Tech / MCA / MSc / M. Tech.

- 10+ years of IT experience in application development and maintenance activities with Microsoft technology stack

- 2+ years of experience as an architect

- Experience in architecting complex Enterprise grade solutions in cloud environments.

- Experience in developing of IT architecture plans and software development methodologies.

- Experience in handling architectural needs of a system like conceptual architecture diagrams, design proposals, arriving at non-functional requirements, capacity planning, landscape planning, estimations, cross platform compatibilities, authentication & authorization mechanisms, project release & business continuity plans, reviews and technology governance.

- Strong knowledge and understanding of .NET Framework & SharePoint development techniques

- Microsoft SQL Server and other most common backend Microsoft technologies. Well versed with all SQL concepts.

- Expertise on Object Oriented Analysis & Design.

- Industry Trends : Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies and incorporate relevant advancements into the team's work. (e.g. Gen AI)

- Design, Implement and deployment experience in 4 or more of the following :

- Azure PaaS technologies such as :

- Azure Web App

- Azure API App

- Azure Functions

- Azure Data Lake

- Azure SQL,

- Azure Cosmos DB,

- Azure Storage,

- Azure Service Bus,

- Azure Service Fabric,

- Azure Cognitive Services (ML, AI, RPA, Bots, OCR & NLP)

- Azure App Service Environment,

- Azure Redis Cache,

- Azure Key Vault,

- Azure Visual Studio Team Services,

- Azure AD / MFA etc.

- Well versed in designing and building Azure solutions that include high availability, multi-region and multi-set architectures using virtual networks, availability sets and affinity groups.

- Insights and Diagnostics using Azure Log Analytics for both on-prem and Azure cloud environments

- Must know how to build secure application with good understanding of web application security standards like OWASP etc.

- Excellent verbal, presentation and written communications skills.

- Strong team skills including the ability to lead and be a team player

Skillset (Preferred) :

- Client facing and exposure to onshore offshore delivery model

- Experience in working in a global environment involving multiple development sites on various time zones.

- Strong knowledge of web-based technologies; HTTP, AJAX, HTML5, React, JavaScript/jQuery and CSS3

- Agile development environment especially SCRUM using ADO.

- Capable of building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals.

- Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions.

- Desire to take the initiative, moving projects/ideas forward with clarity.

- Adept negotiation skills in high-pressure situations.

- Leadership skills to indirectly lead cross-functional teams towards common solutions.

- Certifications in Scrum, TOGAF (or any other architecture related) (ref:hirist.tech)

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