PHP Architect

**Job description**

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Deliver robust and scalable solutions, incorporating new technologies as appropriate.
- Use Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies to provide technical leadership for all aspects of the software development lifecycle and ensure successful and timely delivery.
- Collaborate with product, QA, and customer-facing teams to deliver robust, secure, reliable, scalable software cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences.
- Accelerate the engineering team in the adoption of software engineering standards, good source code management practices, and better documentation.
- Automate static and dynamic code analysis (SAST/DAST) and software composition analysis (SCA).
- Help deliver cloud services/platforms, APIs, microservices architecture, scalability, performance, data storage, serverless computing, etc.
- Help deliver the DevOps process and CI/CD to provide well-written, well-tested builds.
- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality deliverables.
- Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive quality and consistency. Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, product configuration, and production deployment
- Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements.
- Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of a workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
- Act as a technical escalation point for the engineers’ team.
- Cultivate a positive company culture that values cross-team collaboration, trust, and leading by example.
- Perform other tasks as assigned.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- A bachelor’s degree in software engineering or an equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
- 12+ years of Software Development experience and a solid understanding, including design patterns, data structures, test-driven development, backend systems, infrastructure, databases, and APIs.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment utilizing the efficiencies of an Agile and Iterate Fast mentality.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills across distributed teams.
- Experience in clinical research or Healthcare tech is strongly preferred.
- Must have: PHP, SQL, MySQL, React, React Native, JavaScript, API, Shell Scripting, GitHub, AWS (IaaS, PaaS), Nginx.
- Experience in HIPAA/HITECH/HITRUST/PHI/PII and PCI DSS working environment.
- Preferred Qualifications:

- Be a self-starter, self-motivated, proactive, and solution-oriented individual who creates methods for delivering solutions & and establishes best practices.
- 5+ years of experience implementing best practices for the entire software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source code control management, building processes, testing, and operations.
- 5+ years of experience in relational data modeling and SQL/RDBMS.
- Familiarity with security benchmarks such as OWASP, PCI-DSS, CIS, SOC2, FedRAMP, etc.
- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks and MVC design patterns
- Comfortable multi-tasking and working as part of a global team, as well as working independently and taking ownership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to various audiences.