Principal Software Architect

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The Principal Systems Design / Architecture Engineer provides expertise in defining the architecture for large systems. This position conducts system design activities to ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements. They perform architectural analysis, evaluation, and design systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.

Working at NTT

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provides technical expertise on system design activities
• Advises on the review of application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks
• Ensures that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements
• Work cross functionally review existing system architecture and recommend improvements
• Work cross functionally in engineering reviews to determine any ambiguities
• Lead the investigation and scoping of change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required
• Determine system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements
• Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the company’s goals and strategies
• Enable the design and development of new systems and solutions
• Ensure that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and/or align to strategic system architectural direction
• Lead architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems
• Enable and ensure that system architecture is delivered in the form of robust and scalable solutions to business problems and needs
• Identify, evaluate, and assess risks in order to mitigate them and eliminate any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements
• Advises on specifications for solutions functional and technical requirements, and implementation phases required in order to deliver on and solve complex business problems
• Implement processes for integrating architectural solutions
• Implement architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture
• Implement and/or maintain the use of fitness functions to ensure architectural success
• Proactively identify potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions
• Ensure team members understand system architectural implications of requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Strong business acumen
• Excellent ability to effectively deal with stakeholders in challenging situations
• Excellent ability to navigate through complexity and ambiguity
• Excellent understanding of system architecture, design, and delivery
• Excellent understanding of regulatory requirements and organisational standards including security
• Excellent understanding of the system design life cycle models
• Excellent ability to design systems compatible with cloud computing architectures and selection of components
• Excellent ability to design and select system components
• Strong Planning and decision-making skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent ability to use a variety of design tools
• Excellent ability to problem-solve and apply critical thinking
• Excellent understanding of software development practices, including Agile and CI/CD
• Broad expertise in containerization technologies, such as Docker/Kubernetes
• Broad expertise in data security and privacy best practices
• Excellent understanding of clean code concepts, design patterns
• Test driven (TDD) and behavioural driven development (BDD)

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related etc.
• Relevant certifications required
• Recommended Certifications - Cloud Certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect)
• TOGAF Certification

Required Experience:

• Extended demonstrated experience in similar IT roles, with a focus on system design / architecture engineering
• Extended demonstrated working experience in a large-scale organisation
• Extended demonstrated experience, judgment and drive to plan, make decisions and accomplish individual and team goals
• Extended demonstrated experience with software development lifecycles
• Extended demonstrated experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Extended demonstrated systems and/or software development experience is essential
• Proficiency in cloud-based architectures, preferably in popular cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
• Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, distributed, and high-performance systems.
• Proficiency in software design and architecture, ideally with experience dealing with large datasets.

Skills Summary

Functional Requirements, Non-Functional Requirements, Process Automations, Software Development, System Designs, Systems Architecture, Technical Knowledge, Technical Requirements

Workplace type:

Remote Working

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