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Job Summary:
Deloitte is a leading professional services firm, and they are seeking a Lead Architect to engage in software architecture for high-visibility projects. The role focuses on delivering solutions that provide value to customers while driving accountability and collaboration within cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
• Embrace and drive a culture of accountability for customer and business outcomes.
• Develop engineering solutions that solve complex problems with valuable outcomes, ensuring high-quality, lean designs and implementations.
• Serve as the technical advocate for products, ensuring architectural integrity, feasibility, and alignment with business and customer goals, NFRs, and applicable architecture and engineering standards-being responsible for product architecture blueprints, high-level architecture designs (e.g., "4+1 model" or relevant others), and integration architecture into the technical landscape and technology stack.
• Possess passion and experience as an individual contributor, responsible for the engineering designs and technical feasibility of solutions, being hands-on with design, configuration and code part of the time, contributing to team velocity.
• Actively get engaged with engineers to ensure architecture is understood and can be implemented, working with them closely during sprints, helping resolve any technical issues through to production operations: reviewing code, actively driving technology debt reduction, and helping drive engineering quality.
• Be self-driven to learn new technologies, experiment with engineers, and inspire the team to learn and drive the application of those new technologies.
• Develop lean engineering solutions through rapid, inexpensive experimentation to solve customer needs.
• Engage with customers and product teams to deliver the right architectural solution for the product in the right way at the right time.
• Exhibit a mindset that favors action and evidence over extensive planning.
• Utilize a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty, delivering lean, supportable, and maintainable solutions.
• Work collaboratively with empowered, cross-functional teams including product management, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security.
• Integrate diverse perspectives to make well-informed decisions that balance feasibility, viability, usability, and value.
• Foster a collaborative environment that enhances team synergy and innovation.
• Possess deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and principles, including OOD/OOP, Agile methodologies, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, deployment techniques like Blue-Green, Canary to minimize down-time and enable A/B testing approaches.
• Act as a Role-Model, leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery, ensuring high-quality outcomes with minimal waste.
• Demonstrate proficiency in product development, from conceptualization and design to implementation and scaling, with a focus on continuous improvement and learning.
• Quickly acquire domain-specific knowledge relevant to the business or product.
• Translate business/user needs and UX/UI designs into technical requirements and designs.
• Navigate various enterprise functions such as business and enabling areas as well as product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security to drive product value and feasibility as well as alignment with organizational goals.
• Exhibit exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and compellingly.
• Inspire and influence stakeholders at all levels through well-structured arguments and trade-offs supported by evidence, evaluations, and research.
• Create coherent narratives that align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Engage and collaborate with stakeholders at all organizational levels, from team members to senior executives.
• Build and maintain constructive relationships, fostering a culture of co-creation and shared momentum towards achieving product goals.
• Align diverse perspectives and drive consensus to create feasible solutions.
Qualifications:
Required:
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. Experience is the most relevant factor.
• 6 years of experience with multiple programming languages such as Angular, React, NodeJS, Python, Streamlit, C#, .NET Core, Golang, SQL/NoSQL, as well as unit testing frameworks.
• 5 years of experience in designing and architecting enterprise solutions.
• 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud-native engineering, using FaaS, PaaS, and micro-services on cloud hyperscalers such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• 1 year of experience with AI/ML and GenAI.
• Prior software engineering experience with the understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/entity relationship/data flow diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, and code instrumentations.
• Prior experience using methodologies & tools such as XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, etc. to deliver high-quality products rapidly.
• Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Company:
Deloitte is a business consulting company that offers audit, consulting, financial advisory, and tax services. Founded in 1845, the company is headquartered in London, GBR, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.