The Architecture & Incubation leader needs to bridge customer requirements, product management, and software development to ensure solutions produce desired business outcomes while adhering to state-of-the-art technical architecture, patterns, and practices. This role aims to guide the overall direction of products, advocate for customer experience, and keep products current.
Requirements
- Proven experience in designing Distributed Systems with emphasis on scalability, reliability, security, other non-functional requirements, and micro-services architectures.
- Architectural patterns: The ability to understand, analyze, and apply predefined design solutions to structural problems in architecture and software product development.
- Application Security: The ability to protect applications from threats and attacks by identifying, fixing, and preventing security vulnerabilities. This skill involves the use of software methods and systems to protect applications against security threats. Extensive experience with threat modeling is required.
- APIs: The ability to design, develop, and manage Application Programming Interfaces, which constitute the set of protocols and tools used for building application software with API security practices and API testing techniques.
- Product Software Engineering: The ability to design, develop, test, and deploy software products using modern DevSecOps and GitOps practices and patterns.
- Azure Cloud Experience: The ability to utilize and manage applications, data, and services in Azure.
- DevSecOps: An ability to use systems and processes to coordinate between development and operations teams to improve and speed up software development processes with security built in by design.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership and direction for the product software engineering department, aligning it with overall business objectives in the context of a matrixed organization.
- Define and drive the product architecture evolution by identifying opportunities and driving the right choices.
- Provide tactical guidance to other architects, development leads, and teams as needed to maintain the integrity of the product architecture and protect the customer experience.
- Stay updated with relevant knowledge, technologies, patterns, and best practices to drive innovation within the department and across the organization.
- Make critical decisions and solve complex problems related to software product design, development, delivery, deployment, and team management.
- Assist the teams in the product life cycle, with particular focus on maintaining alignment with the overall software architecture, providing the overall guidance of the department, and collecting insights for emerging architectures, patterns, and practices.
- Investigate and propose next generation technologies to solve current and future technical challenges across the organization.
Other
- The leader has a deep passion for advocating for the customer experience, keeping products current, and designing with strong knowledge of modern architectural patterns and practices.
- Communicate effectively in a matrixed organization with senior management, peers, and subordinates to ensure alignment and collaboration that drives consensus and outcomes.
- Develop and define departmental objectives, strategies, and goals to help drive the success of software projects.
- Establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships within the department and with other stakeholders.
- People management: The ability to lead, grow, motivate, engage, and communicate effectively with a team.
