Technical Architect

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to major projects. Build and manage a cross-functional team of software engineers, UX designers, graphic specialists, QA engineers, etc.
• Optimize your own code and also make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a technical architect you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
• Work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.
• Have demonstrable experience in architecting and driving implementation of large-scale services or experiences spanning, multiple systems and groups
• You are supposed to be equally responsible for the success/failure of the various initiatives.
• Very good in low level design i.e. design classes with clear responsibilities.
• Responsible for production deployment of code and support for any production bugs.
• Ability to handle some ambiguity and chaos of a very fast paced environment.

Experience and Skills

• Expertise in Programming with .NET Framework (4.0 onwards): Complete from back end to Windows or Web Forms front end Enterprise integration technologies (Microsoft BizTalk, MSMQ, Web Services, Remoting)
• Experience with other languages such as PHP, Java is an added advantage.
• Desktop and Windows application development experience using WPF, OpenGL, DirectX, etc. or any other technologies. Good understanding of multi-threading, hardware acceleration, 3D graphics rendering, and media delivery (videos, PDF, images, 3D objects, etc.)
• Business information systems integration or custom business application design and development in a professional technology consulting, corporate MIS or software development environment.
• Good experience of databases including relational databases, opensource databases, and cloud databases. Experience with nosql is added advantage.
• At least 3 years experience in designing n-tier applications with high scalability, and security requirements.
• Solid knowledge and experience on Microsoft technology landscape including various server products.
• Understanding of SOA, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Information Management, Knowledge Management, integration, portals, etc.
• Proven knowledge and experience with: Agile methodologies Enterprise integration and software development patterns
• Building mobile based apps using XAMARIN or similar framework, or building SharePoint based business applications is an added advantage