The Web Architect will be responsible for the overall design and lifecycle/upgrade planning of a complex global web infrastructure based on business-driven projects and capacity. The primary scope of this position will be to lead the strategic planning and build activities supporting the overall web architecture and operational efficiency supporting a large portion of our internal and external applications.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ability to bridge strategic vision and tactical implementation
- Collaborate with multiple teams including business stakeholders, UX Design and backend teams.
- Inform management and provide recommendations for the mitigation of potential bottlenecks or single points of failure within the environment that may affect system performance or availability.
- Analyze and understand the organization's environment and architecture.
- Work with infrastructure product vendors, AE infrastructure, and enterprise architects to implement web infrastructure improvements, and new products and technology.
- Implement web technologies based on integration for global standards, data classification, and data privacy according to regulatory guidelines.
- Ensure web security controls meet internal and external audit and compliance requirements.
- Perform as a technical subject matter expert in the development of highly complex, innovative, and cost-effective Integration solutions and provide technical oversight and perform code reviews for multiple development efforts
- Expected to interface with service providers to communicate new architecture standards and perform regular audits.
- Develop best practice techniques for the web environment, supporting an automation-first mindset and mentoring the team in these activities.
- Evaluate and certify web technologies, while assisting in the management of vendor relationships and the definition of vendor product feature sets.
- Support service providers to troubleshoot complex web infrastructure issues within prescribed service levels.
- Responsible for designing and developing reference architecture diagrams to help standardize web infrastructure landscape.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Strong development background, extensive architecture experience, and technical leadership qualifications
- Strong knowledge of design patterns to build highly scalable, highly performant, highly secure web applications
- Must have a working knowledge of Web Services, APIs, JSON, and XML technologies
- Knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient in working with code versioning tools.
- React/React Native/Flutter is a plus
EXPERIENCE:
- 5 or more years of experience as a Web Developer or Architect
- 5-10 years of experience in web development
- Experience in HTML
- Experience in Cloud Hosting, Cloud Portal, DevOps, Cloud Storage
- Experience in deploying using Web Deploy, GIT, FTP, TFS
- Experience in Authentication Technologies: LDAP, CAS
- Proficient in working with code versioning tools.
- Experience in creating and managing databases
- Proven experience managing solution architectures and expert-level knowledge of modern technologies and software development practices and patterns
- Experience integrating with backend systems and integration testing
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, Graduate degree preferred