Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Solution Architect at Namecheap

Solution Architect is a thought leader responsible for overall application architecture and deployment strategy as it relates to designing, selecting, building, configuring, and deploying business capability through application & technology solutions. Responsibilities also include planning and deployment of the applications & technologies across many diverse business processes.

Job Location: Coimbatore, India

Responsibilities

  • As a Subject Matter Expert (SME), Architects work with the Stakeholders and Product Owners (PO) to define and drive technical strategy and architectural direction for various products and systems.
  • Work with key stakeholders, project department, delivery department, development team and release managers to bring out the best result of the project.

  • As a member of the architect group, is responsible for setting up coding standards, design patterns, tools, platform and environments.
  • Enforces set of rules and consistency and ensures the team follows them by integrating tools (such as Stylecop).
  • Sets application performance benchmarks, monitors performance and identifies bottlenecks.
  • Analyzes current issues and initiates projects for the mitigation and improvements.
  • Designs solutions in compliance with architectural standards that will ensure security and high performance solutions.
  • Designs solutions to ensure adequate logging and exception handling mechanism.
  • Guides level-2 and level-3 support team to help them to identify the system level issues.
  • Guides Quality Assurance team to give inputs for writing test cases to ensure performance standards and application compatibility in different environments.
  • Understand the release process and guides the release manager and project team to ensure deployment in different environments and improve the deployment process.

Project Responsibilities

  • As Subject Matter Expert, will work with stakeholders to help scoping the projects and ensure business expectations and systems are aligned.
  • Leading or supporting the development of solution work plans, estimates and the infrastructure architecture.
  • Helps project members understand the technical aspects of project related scope.
  • Involved in the process of building Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and validate the estimation for a particular project and related iterations.
  • Work closely with the development teams and have a overall visibility about how the development work is in complaint to the Architectural design.
  • As one of the stakeholder of the system, Architect should make sure the project should be easily scalable, reliable and maintainable.
  • Architect has responsibility of approving the project and its handover documents at the end of project life cycle from the project team.

Requirements

  • Have a strong experience in Web technologies in ASP.NET C#/PHP and related technologies like IIS, Visual Studio, SQL Server, MySQL etc.
  • Able to communicate effectively in english, both verbally and in writing and explain technical concepts.
  • Proven experience of working with stakeholders to analyse requirements, develop ideas and design solutions.
  • Good understanding of web development, information architecture, design patterns, CMS and integrated technologies.