As a Software Architect in our Platform group, you provide technical and strategic leadership to one or more delivery teams within the Product Development organization, providing technical design oversight and guidance, performing reviews, and proposing technical solutions that fulfill customer and product needs. You will partner with members of our Product Management team and other stakeholders to help define solutions to customer needs and provide technical oversight and guidance to our development teams as they build to meet these goals. The problems that you would be solving are open-ended and often abstract.

Software Architect is still acting in a very hands-on role, and as such, they are a prolific contributor to both core projects as well as side and experimental work. Whilst they usually are assigned to a squad, an Architect may move between squads in their tribes where the needs of the tribe are the greatest. When presented with a complex problem, process, or existing system they are consistently able to reduce the complexity in order to get more done with less work.

Working with the Principal Architect and the rest of the architecture team, you will help to evolve the overall company's product architecture, investigating and proposing changes to the underlying technology base as well as capturing and documenting non-functional (architectural) requirements, preparing estimates and defining technical solutions to proposals (RFPs).

Architectural Duties

• Collaborating with the Tooling and PM to understand product direction and produce solution designs to match

• Setting short to medium-term technical direction for their area of ownership

• Accountable for the technical evolution of the architecture within their area of ownership

• Anticipating and planning ahead 6-12 months in order to identify the areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them.

• Working with the rest of the Architecture team to drive the overall Skedulo product architecture forward.

• Being data-driven, identifying and demonstrating the right tools at every stage of software development to ensure code and architectural qualities are not compromised.

Communication & Leadership Duties

• Operating in a collaborative manner by guiding technical discussions to help reach a consensus; once a decision is made, clearly communicate and back that decision.

• Communicating concepts and engineering vision to the product development team

• Regularly presenting the latest architectural decisions and direction via documentation and presentations to the product development team.

• Taking the lead in technical discussions with other product teams across Skedulo: UK, Australia, and US

Squad (Daily Ongoing Duties)

• Overseeing and driving the progress of the development team to ensure consistency with product vision, UX design, and technical design

• Driving and finding balance in prioritization of technical needs alongside product needs

• Ensuring the development team commitments are realistic and meet delivery timelines

• Coaching and mentoring engineers in architecture best practices.