Chief Architect

6 days ago


Hyderabad, Telangana, India Staffington Consulting Pvt Ltd Full time
Job Description

Job Title: Chief Architect

Job Summary: We are seeking a highly experienced Chief Architect to lead our software design team in the development of complex solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud native solution design, experience in leading a software design team, and a proven track record of successful large-scale solution design.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.
  • Establishes policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.
  • Manages trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organization.
  • Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.
  • Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.
  • Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.
  • Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs.
  • Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively.
  • Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
  • Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques.
  • Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.
  • Designs complex software applications, components and modules.
  • Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology.
  • Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Identifies, evaluates and recommends alternative design options and trade-offs.
  • Models, simulates or prototypes the behavior of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software.
  • Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods.
  • Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
  • Leads reviews of others' designs.
  • Specifies the technical configurations and components required for a small network or a network segment in a more complex infrastructure.
  • Follows organizational architectures and standards.
  • Specifies and designs complex hardware components/systems.
  • Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise policies and ensures they are applied effectively.
  • Undertakes impact analysis on major design options and assesses and manages associated risks.
  • Ensures that hardware designs balance functional, quality, safety, security, systems management, reliability and sustainability requirements.
  • Reviews others' designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and effective integration of multiple systems and technology.
  • Contributes to policy for selection of components.
  • Designs, verifies, documents, amends and refactors complex software configurations for deployment.
  • Contributes to the selection of the software configuration methods, tools and techniques.
  • Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
  • Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.
  • Establishes, modifies or maintains simple data structures and associated components.
  • Uses specific data modelling and design techniques under guidance.
  • Interprets installation standards to meet project needs and produces database or data warehouse component specifications.
  • Develops appropriate physical database or data warehouse design elements, within set policies, to meet data requirements.
  • Applies standard techniques and tools for developing user stories and eliciting user experience requirements.
  • Organizes and structures user experience analysis.
  • Works with stakeholders to prioritise requirements and resolve conflicts.
  • Develops moderately complex solutions that use high-performance computing environments to address real-world problems.
  • Applies a range of high-performance computing techniques with sensitivity to the limitations of the techniques.
  • Uses input and feedback from experts as appropriate.
  • Analyses the complexity, scalability and performance of algorithms, including massively parallel implementations, and makes or recommends improvements.
  • Selects relevant feasibility assessment approaches and techniques.
  • Identifies the range of possible options. Undertakes short-listing of options and feasibility assessment.
  • Engages with internal and external stakeholders to get the information required for feasibility assessment.
  • Supports preparation of business cases including cost/benefit, impact and risk analysis for each option.
  • Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
  • Follows agreed standards and applies appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
  • Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required.
  • Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
  • Prioritizes requirements and documents traceability to source.
  • Provides input to the requirements base-line.
  • Investigates, manages and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.
  • Applies and maintains specific security controls as required by organizational policy and local risk assessments.
  • Communicates security risks and issues to business managers and others.
  • Performs basic risk assessments for small information systems.
  • Contributes to the identification of risks that arise from potential technical solution architectures.
  • Suggests alternate solutions or countermeasures to mitigate risks.
  • Defines secure systems configurations in compliance with intended architectures.
  • Supports investigation of suspected attacks and security breaches
  • Other Roles and Responsibilities:
    • Adherence to the company Engineering Excellence practice by following mandated practices and patterns.
    • Accounting for personal daily time and attendance.
    • Such tasks as the Company may reasonably request from time to time
  • Technical Experience and Expertise:
    • A broad range of technology knowledge to appropriate level of competency/qualification including but not limited to :
    • Microsoft Azure AAD including best practice framework
    • Microsoft Azure VPN/Bastion/CLI
    • Microsoft Azure firewall, virtual networking
    • Microsoft Azure DevOps (build, test, deploy) pipelines (with self-hosted agency)
    • Microsoft Windows Defender EPP
    • Microsoft Windows Server
    • Microsoft Exchange, Teams, Sharepoint, M365
    • Microsoft InTune
    • Microsoft Cloud Security services and toolsets (ATP, ASR, DLP)
    • Microsoft IAM (PIM, Conditional Access, AAD tokens, RBAC, JIT)
    • Terraform IAC
    • Microsoft Backup & Recovery (RSV)
    • Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solution (full service range)
    • Microsoft Visio
    • Microsoft SQL Server
    • Java, .Net (core), OC and VB6
    • ReactJS
    • MongoDb
    • Atlassian JIRA & Confluence
    • Aha
    • Freshdesk FreshService
    • 1Password password manager
  • Skill Set:
    • Be self-motivated, proactive with thoroughness and attention to detail in communication, documentation etc. without assumption.
    • Strategic and analytical thinking with ability to grasp internal and external customer requirements.
    • Ability to conceptualize solutions and present ideas to management and stakeholders
    • Great communication and negotiations with the ability to be proactive in adapting to technology needs and requirements.
    • Organization, time management and team leadership.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare and eventually deliver presentations to audiences, demonstrating knowledge of domain and technology.
    • Strong moral compass and strength to prevent breach of company policies, standards and procedures (eg: granting unapproved access) in the face of pressure to fulfil business demands
  • Experiential Requirements:
    • 10+ years experience in modern cloud native solution design ideally within the context of a software engineering company building commodity trading or at least financial services solutions.
    • Min 5 years experience in leading a software design team in a cross border environment.
    • Credible examples of large scale, complex solution design with specific example of migration from client-server behemoth legacy app to refactored and rearchitected modern, web native app engineered through a rapid CI/CD pipeline.
    • Demonstrable success in IaaS and PaaS software engineering and SaaS solution hosting in a dynamic and modern environment BUT with a significant list of legacy transition to complete.
    • Knowledge of and experience in a range of design and modelling structural components such as (but not limited to) shape libraries, frameworks, ref architecture, MS best practice patterns and so on


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