Lead Architect
Position Summary:
Responsible for architectural ownership providing overall vision, leadership and direction of an entire platform. Provide high level analysis and guides other groups within the department. Provide mentorship and career development for subordinate employees. Lead full cycle architecture across all domains through the Software Development Life Cycle process.
Responsibilities:
- Communicate architectural decisions and intent with project team
- Map requirements and use cases to subsystems and components
- Define subsystem process model and dynamic interactions
- Monitor architectural/design conformance of implementation with project team
- Specify work plan to implement, maintain, or correct conforming software
- Understand and work with new software technologies to understand impact and applicability
- Ability to lead several multidiscipline architects to converge to a single architecture
- Ability to manage by influence to obtain buy-in across the R&D organization
Requirements:
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics or another hard science or engineering degree
- MBA/MSc/PhD preferred
- Advanced degree in Mathematics ideal
- 15+ years relevant work experience with 3+ years as a Lead Architect or relevant work experience
- Architect Level Certification Preferred
- Ability to prototype a system end-to-end
- Ability to lead R&D specification, requirements, development and test teams to converge on a single architecture for a single architecture domain
- Knowledge of all existing standards for a single architecture domain
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Expert in all architectural domains and how design choices impact the architecture up and downstream as well as across architectural domains
- Successfully completes panel interview with Internal Architecture Group (all domains)
- Mentor two or more Architects
Scott Murray
Group Manager
H.T. Associates Inc.
Office: (847) 577-0300
smurray@htassociates.com
