Software Architect, LanguageWire

• Proven experience developing complex software solutions and delivering high-quality software systems, preferably SaaS services
• Proven architecture design & documentation experience
• Proven track record of re-architecting existing systems in a successful way
• Excellent knowledge of modern programming languages like C#, Python, Java
• Deep experience with REST APIs and documentation of REST endpoints
• Experience with Cloud Native development and microservices architectures
• DevOps experience: CI / CD, automated pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Containerization, Kubernetes
• Ability to drive change and influence without authority
• Excellent presentation and data visualization skills. You’re comfortable reporting and presenting to senior leadership as well as to development teams
• Fluent English (reading, writing, speaking)
• Very good knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure & GCP
• You stand out as a trusted and respected mentor in your team. When your colleagues are wrestling with a difficult architecture issue, they come to you
• Your approach is pragmatic, to the point. Your experience has made you skeptical of over-architecting
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Deep understanding of the dynamics of cross-functional teams and the “You build it, you run it” paradigm

Desirable

• As a Software Architect, you will guide a team of more than 70 smart engineers with a focus on two areas
• The first focus area is software architecture excellence. You define best practice guidelines for common building blocks and architecture documentation
• You’re responsible for rolling out these guidelines in the development organization
• The second focus area is mentoring the team. You support the developers in making sound and consistent architecture decisions
• This involves coaching, constructive criticism and good governance principles
• Your work will contribute to improved scalability, stability and maintainability of the platform
• Even more important, this role is essential for the happiness, motivation and personal development of our complete engineering team
• Ou will be part of our Platform Engineering Tribe and will work very closely with our Director of Platform Engineering who is also defining a global reference architecture
• The Platform Engineering tribe will take part in all the strategically important changes and initiatives across our engineering group
• This includes a mix of hands-on work when implementing new features, technologies or similar while keeping the strategic focus and aligning this across tribes
• You will work with highly skilled and top of the class engineers and we expect you to be one as well!
• Defining our technical & architecture vision/strategy and ensuring adoption
• Defining our technology vision, evangelizing and pushing company-wide technology transformations across the entire tech team
• Defining software architecture best practice guidelines, monitoring cross-team adherence and plan governance measures if needed
• Ensuring the successful execution of complex projects involving multiple teams/products
• Supporting our senior software developers to create solid and manageable architecture designs and making good trade-offs
• Ensuring that we have the right team & skills
• Evaluating tech and soft skills of the senior developers and advising on development and training needed
• Assisting with recruitment of senior tech roles in the tech teams in cooperation with our People and Culture team
• In one year, you’ll know you were successful if…
• The team has understood the value of architecture analysis and has adopted a pragmatic architecture documentation framework
• Team can make autonomous architectural decisions that move our system forward
• All the major platform services have a comprehensive and consistent set of documentation
• Your consultancy knowledge is valuable for the rest of the teams
• You have contributed to a positive and enjoyable work atmosphere in the team