Role : Chief Architect - Developer Program
Location : Bethlehem, PA or Bridgewater, NJ
Duration : Long Term C2C
Experience : 15 yrs
Rate : DOE
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This is a technical
senior leadership role Provides overall architecture and development
standards for a modular, scalable, high-performance, developer program and
works with a team of functional architects and senior engineers to build
products and modules to the architecture. Combines a strong, hands-on
understanding of software platform and applications architecture with a deep
understanding of business goals and product requirements to build products to
that deliver value.
Work is done in
close cooperation with product management, to take care that architecturally
significant information is incorporated into requirements, and with development
managers so that they are able to effectively manage the projects.
The intent is
to increase the productivity of the whole software creation process, ensuring
that subsystems and components are interoperable, and to increase the reuse of
existing software components.
Responsibilities
- Provide architecture for the developer program
- Design enhancements to our existing APIs, build API orchestration layer
- Evangelize APIs and best practices for building and consuming APIs
- Help drive adoption of new technologies within the team
- Build prototypes to prove out concepts
- Interface with infrastructure partners to further our API platform
- Participate in evaluating and recommending 3rd party technologies that might enhance our products
- Contribute to, design and/or develop an architecture framework including technology architecture strategy, policies, ‘guiding principles’ and standards to govern how technology solutions will be developed and implemented
- Research/analyze business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within technology architecture
- Provide recommendations on value-added architectural improvements / enhancements
Basic
Qualifications
- Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering
- 15+ years of software development experience out of which
- 5+ years or more of hands on experience as a software architect designing large-scale software systems. Experience in Cloud technologies is mandatory (IaaS, SaaS)
- 10+ years of hands on experience in software development, in a large software organization
- Experience in Java, C++ , Unix , Cassandra, Hadoop
- Candidate should have prior experience in architecting and launchinga developer program.
- Proven ability to operate at scale within a large Software Engineering Organization, and working with a demanding customer to drive the overall architecture
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Preferred
Qualifications & Desired Competencies
- Masters in Computer Science or Engineering
- Experience in working with a Tier 1 / Tier 2 Wireless carrier
- Expertise with API Management layer (WSO2, APIAxleetc)
- Experience with hypervisor, compute, network, and storage virtualization technologies; VMware technologies a plus
- Experience with Mobile technologies (Android, iOS) a definite plus
- Experience in Open Source community a plus
ArimaaForce LLC., USA
resumes@arimaaforcellc.com
