Digital Innovation Architect

RESPONSIBILITIES * Solve complex business and technical problems using the latest emerging technologies and proposing various solutions in ...

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Solve complex business and technical problems using the latest emerging technologies and proposing various solutions in a comprehensible manner.
• Design and architect scalable and distributed applications using innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with other Solution architects to design a unified multi-brand solution which will work across all Inspire Brands.
• Design solutions that are scalable and flexible to support different brand demands.
• Influence the successful implementation of these designs and architectures by managing expectations and risks and balancing tactical and strategic approach.
• Collaborate with other architects and technology teams to provide direction and design in an Agile environment.
• Creates reliable solution plans that include cost estimates and optimized delivery approaches by working with the business and technology teams, enforcing governance and compliance activities for the solution.
• Identify new disruptive technologies to provide business value.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

• 4 year degree in Computer Science or similar required
• Graduate degree preferred

EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION

• Minimum 10 years, preferably 15+ years, of experience in application design and development, and systems life cycle management
• 5+ years of architecture experience working on complex enterprise systems
• 3+ years of experience in designing and prototyping innovative solutions

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS or ABILITIES

• Expertise with emerging technologies not limited to contactless pay, blockchain, mobile tech, omnichannel commerce, application innovation
• Strong demonstrable experience leading architecture development for enterprise scale systems in public clouds (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform), preferably with Azure experience
• Experience converting business requirements to designs and user stories.
• Experience working in an Agile environment across multiple scrum teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication as well as presentation skills
• Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, all the so-called "capabilities" of a system
• Hands on coding experience in developing solutions and/or POCs leveraging cloud based PaaS, and/or open sources frameworks
• Hands on coding experience with Java and/or C#