Systems Design

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The Systems Design / Architecture Engineer is a seasoned subject matter expert, responsible for participating in defining the architecture for large systems.

This role assists with conducting system design activities to ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.

The Systems Design / Architecture Engineer participates in architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.

Key responsibilities:

• Conducts system design activities and reviews detailed application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks.
• Ensures that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
• Reviews existing system architecture and recommends improvements.
• Investigates and scopes change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimates the timeframe and input required.
• Determines system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements.
• Ensures that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the company's goals and strategies.
• Ensures that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and/or align to strategic system architectural direction.
• Conducts architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.
• Enables and ensures that system architecture is delivered in the form of robust and scalable solutions to business problems and needs.
• Identifies, evaluates, and assesses risks in order to mitigate them and eliminate any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements.
• Implements processes for integrating architectural solutions.
• Implements architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture.
• Proactively identifies potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions.
• Performs any other related task as required.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Business acumen with excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to effectively deal with stakeholders in challenging situations.
• Ability to navigate through complexity and ambiguity.
• Seasoned knowledge of system architecture, design, and delivery.
• Seasoned understanding of regulatory requirements and organizational standards.
• Seasoned knowledge of the system design lifecycle models.
• Seasoned ability to design systems compatible with cloud computing architectures and selection of components.
• Seasoned ability to design and select system components.
• Excellent planning and decision-making skills.
• Excellent ability to use a variety of design tools.
• Seasoned understanding of software development practices, including Agile and CI/CD.
• Seasoned expertise in containerization technologies, such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Seasoned expertise in data security and privacy best practices.
• Advanced knowledge of clean code concepts, design patterns, test driven (TDD) and behavioral driven development (BDD).

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• Recommended certifications such as Cloud (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect); TOGAF preferred.

Required experience:

• Seasoned experience in similar IT roles, with a focus on system design / architecture engineering.
• Proven working experience in a large-scale organization.
• Seasoned experience, judgment and drive to plan, make decisions and accomplish individual and team goals.
• Seasoned experience with software development lifecycles.
• Seasoned experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Seasoned systems and/or software development experience is essential.
• Seasoned understanding of cloud-based architectures, preferably in popular cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
• Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, distributed, and high-performance systems.
• Seasoned knowledge of software design and architecture, ideally with experience dealing with large datasets.

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

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