Software Architect (DevOps Engineer)

Area of Responsibility:

1. Provide expert guidance on software development to other teams

• Initiate  best practice guidance to other teams to ensure that software systems are built for purpose
• Provide documentation to ensure that teams have a solid understanding of the technologies used 
• Develop high-level understanding of key common technologies, languages and processes used in the company to maximize their utility

2. Continually learn new technologies and processes

• Keep up to date on existing technologies and devops processes to find methods for continual improvement
• Formulate proof-of-concept for emerging technologies and processes to test applicability of the technologies for their team
• Conduct  internal training sessions for the team to ensure that knowledge is shared

3. Monitor and recommend updates to existing systems where appropriate

• Continually review, from maintainability, performance and understandability, the software systems and processes to ensure that we have actionable metrics on where we can improve
• Analyze  hypothesis for improvement with proof-of-concept implementations to provide options for continual improvement
• Propose specific and actionable improvements to technologies, processes and systems to improve our systems

4. Develop common systems, processes and methods 

• Maintain or improve common packages and devOps pipelines to support cycle-time metrics in other teams
• Recommend (Maintain) high-level technology documentation linked to source code to provide key understanding and visibility to all teams

5. Communicate effectively among and between stakeholder groups

• Provide constant updates to your team on external factors and how their work is making an impact to provide a sense of purpose to the team
• Collaborate with other TEC departments to ensure predictable and consistent delivery of value
• Ensure that stakeholders are aware of progress and obstacles within your team to facilitate timely discussions

Requirements:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent is preferred
• 3-5 years experience as a software architect.
• Proficient in least one of Go, Python, C#, Javascript.
• Proficient in knowledge of infrastructure, software architecture and testing.
• Proficient in knowledge of containerization.
• Understanding of existing DevOps processes.