What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Architect position at Energage?
Lead Software Architect
Your Mission as a Lead Software Architect
Your mission as the Lead Software Architect is to direct the design and development of the software architecture underlying Energage’s suite of products. You’ll determine how to evolve the current architecture to support the planned product growth. You will be given the opportunity to identify the best approach needed to evolve the current architecture to one that positions Energage for the future so should be comfortable with some ambiguity and driving through obstacles. You’ll collaborate closely and effectively with coworkers in Product Management, Experience Design, Data Engineering, Data Science, Security, QA, IT, and Business Intelligence.
Accountability & Impact:
In this role, you’ll...
- Lead the development of a strategic product-line software architecture that enables creation of additional products that complement the existing products.
- Collaborate in the creation of a roadmap for evolving the existing architecture to support the company’s growth.
- Ensure the architecture satisfies both the functional and non-functional requirements.
- Effectively communicate the architecture to stakeholders with varying degrees of technical understanding using verbal skills and supported by a set of artifacts that can be used as a living description of the architecture.
- Develop architectural solutions that are frugal and as simple as possible.
- Be prepared to spend at least 50% of your time hands-on.
What Your Bring to the Role:
- Experience leading the software architecture responsibility in a complex environment for a set of enterprise-class products.
- Extensive experience with C#/.Net (Framework, Core), web-based FE architectures, API Architectures, and Azure.
- Expertise with modern patterns and approaches to software architecture.
- Experience applying the appropriate lean/agile principles pragmatically.
- Experience with legacy modernization patterns and practices.
- An aversion to over-architecting and unnecessary complexity.
- Capable of working with a variety of stakeholders, multiple teams (on-shore and off-shore), and leading by influence.
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience.
Nice to have’s:
- Experience in development of HRTech products.
- Experience with AWS.
Remote in the region: This is a fully remote role but we are looking for someone within commuting distance to Exton, PA for an occasional on-site meeting (potentially once per quarter).
