Application Architect

Application Architect Architect

Boston, MA

JO-1611-311

Our tight-knit Development team builds and maintains a large private website which helps more than 2,000 small business owners manage their daily lives. It is built primarily using Microsoft technologies, including.NET and SQL Server. We also have a public-facing site and mobile versions of our tools. Our development approach has always been Agile, and we recently revamped our team structure based on Scrum.

Responsibilities: Helping define logical and physical application architecture and documenting that architecture using diagrams

Helping identify design patterns and anti-patterns and enforcing implementation through design reviews

Building strong, collaborative relationships with a variety of people (Scrum team technical leads, product owners, and development managers), as well as across Scrum and peer technology teams (Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, Information Security)

Providing leadership to the various Scrum teams in design and architecture

Leading Scrum teams in creating appropriate designs that consider product strategy, project-level in-scope requirements, technical debt remediation opportunities, and design patterns

Helping teams choose from multiple design options while balancing project timelines and architecture standards/guidelines

Performing root cause analyses, technology evaluations, and design spikes

Continuously learning and being unafraid to implement new practices, processes, and technologies

Staying abreast of industry, technology, language, and process trends

Committing to completing well-defined work in our architecture backlog and delivering on those commitments

Identifying and promoting improvements to our SDLC for the overall development organization, including, but not limited to, areas such as version control, continuous integration, project build, and project deployment

Consistently following software development methodology when working on research proof of concepts or while creating/maintaining software owned by the Architecture team

Qualifications: 3+ years as an architect or 5+ years in a tech lead role

10+ years designing interconnected, complex systems

Excellent communication skills

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

Experience working with various teams and influencing a common alignment

Experience with ASP.NET MVC applications

Experience with ASP.NET Web API

The ideal candidate will also have familiarity with some of the following technologies:

NServiceBus

Client-side technologies/frameworks (Angular 2, Knockout, Web Components)

Microsoft Azure or other cloud infrastructures