The Web Application Architect organizes the lifecycle of new development on future and existing products. Some responsibilities include reviewing product requirements, designing product architecture, and managing daily product development efforts. You will be responsible for managing complex interactions between business processes and technologies as well as translating product specifications into production level applications.
Key responsibilities
- Develop cross-product frameworks and best practices, and design, establish, and maintain technical architecture standards.
- Architect, design, and document solutions to product specifications for shared capabilities throughout the architecture.
- Carry out other related duties as assigned by management.
- Play an important role in code development for web-based n-tier applications.
- Collaborate with the product team to understand requirements and create functionality specifications.
- Oversee the deployment of alpha and beta releases during the stabilization of new product development.
- Determine and progress development standards, guidelines, procedures, processes, and metrics.
- Assist in product release planning and helps assess feature viability/effort.
- Facilitate code reviews, calling out best practices and steps for increased stability and capability.
- Support developers in a technical and non-technical capacity- Aid in writing the technical section of functional specifications for new product development.
- Help team members so that they grow abilities and strengthen capabilities.
- Oversee the timeline for product development.
Requirements
- Ability to create, debug, secure, test, and optimize code for multiple web-based applications and services.
- 10+ years of experience in application development, software design, and architecture.
- Comfortable learning new technologies related to the Web and application development.
- Ability to decompose and prioritize components of large systems.
- Ability to work independently and lead small teams.
- BA/BS in Software Engineering or Computer Science.
- Capable of creating realistic plans, goals, and aligning plans with company goals, managing resources, and creating contingency plans.
- Ability and willingness to meet business critical deadlines
- Presentation experience, and excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated capability to evaluate existing architecture, documenting issues and suggested improvements
- Familiarity with common software development languages is preferred.
- Knowledge of database design.
- Experience in a consulting environment with business analysis, data management, system architecture, and distributed technologies.
- 5+ years of experience in team management in a related field.
- Proficient with threading, asynchronous event handling, data binding, scripting and query languages/tools.