Senior Software Architect

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The Senior Systems Design / Architecture Engineer is an advanced subject matter expert, accountable for defining the architecture for large systems.
This role conducts system design activities to ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
The Senior Systems Design / Architecture Engineer performs architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Implements system design activities and is responsible for reviewing detailed application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks.
• Responsible for ensuring that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
• Work across multiple teams to review existing system architecture and recommend improvements.
• Directs the investigation and scoping of change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate 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.
• Directs 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.
• Specifies solutions functional and technical requirements, and implementation phases required in order to deliver on and solve complex business problems.
• Accountable for implementing architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture.
• Responsible for implementing and/or maintaining the use of fitness functions to ensure architectural success.
• Proactively identifies potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions.
• Performs any other task as required.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Excellent business acumen with excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to effectively deal with stakeholders in challenging situations.
• Ability to navigate through complexity and ambiguity.
• Advanced knowledge of system architecture, design, and delivery.
• Advanced understanding of regulatory requirements and organizational standards.
• Advanced knowledge of the system design lifecycle models.
• Advanced ability to design systems compatible with cloud computing architectures and selection of components.
• Advanced ability to design and select system components.
• Excellent planning and decision-making skills.
• Excellent ability to use a variety of design tools.
• Advanced understanding of software development practices, including Agile and CI/CD.
• Advanced expertise in containerization technologies, such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Advanced 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:

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

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA
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