Solution Architect (Telco sector)

Introduction

Our client is an international leader in installation of media and communication solutions headquartered in Germany and represented in 21 other countries. Their core offering is a secure software platform which delivers secure communication and multimedia services.

Tasks

Announce architecture design guidelines and principles to the development teams related to current and future product portfolio
Cooperate with development team’s decisions in component bundling and interfacing
Ensure that all initiatives are aligned with the overall technical vision
Maintain and spread the documentation of existing high-level architecture (components, interfaces & relations diagram)
Approve cross cutting system proposals of Development Teams and get feedback about the production performance of the features
Supporting the Product Management in their decisions, take responsibilities on component level
Managing vendors, focus on technical aspect, and provide feedback to commercial discussions
Focusing on component reusability and interoperability
Facilitating planning, tracking and scheduling of key software deliverables
Put improvement and refactoring projects on the roadmap
Analyze technology trends and applicability within the company
Coordinating the cooperation with IT Operations
Define the necessary monitoring / forensic / benchmark tools for IT

Expectations

IT specific university degree
5 years experiences in software industry (minimum 3 years as senior software developer / architect)
Deep knowledge of Microsoft technologies (T-SQL, .Net, ASP, Azure, BI)
Experience in design aspects of Information Security / IT Security
Experience in (technical aspect of) vendor management
Experience in development mobile platforms
Interfacing best practices like SOAP, REST and various API integration platforms
Knowledge of open source technologies (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Postgres, etc.)
Certified in Software Development Life Cycle, TDD, CI/CD, IaC and DevOps
Fluent spoken and written English
Awareness of networking knowledge, databases, transactions and backend, virtualization technologies, cloud computing

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