Applications Architect

at Robert Half in Skokie, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Description The Application Architect manages the lifecycle of new development on existing and future products. Some responsibilities include reviewing product requirements, designing product architecture, and managing daily product development efforts. You will be responsible for managing complex interactions between business processes and technologies as well as translating product specifications into production level applications.

Major responsibilities

- Create, design, and document solutions to product specifications for shared capabilities throughout the architecture.

- Support code development for web-based n-tier applications.

- Own the product development timeline.

- Help with writing the technical section of functional specifications for new product development.

- Design, establish, and maintain technical architecture standards and develop cross-product frameworks and best practices.

- Carry out other related duties as assigned by management.

- Mentor team members to grow abilities and strengthen capabilities.

- Provide technical and non-technical mentorship and oversight to developers.

- Oversee the deployment of alpha and beta releases during the stabilization of new product development.

- Lead code reviews — identifying best practices and efficiency steps for increased stability and capability.

- Support product release planning and assess feature viability/effort.

- Establish and improve development standards, guidelines, procedures, processes, and metrics.

- Collaborate with the product team to understand requirements and create functionality specifications. Requirements

- React

- C#

- Azure

- Capable of learning new technologies related to the Web and application development.

- Skilled in threading, asynchronous event handling, data binding, scripting and query languages/tools.

- 5+ years of experience in team management in a related field.

- Ability to decompose and prioritize components of large systems.

- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation experience.

- Demonstrated capability to evaluate existing architecture, documenting issues and suggested improvements

- Aptness to create, debug, secure, test, and optimize code for multiple web-based applications and services.

- Must be able to work independently and lead small teams.

- Understanding of common software development languages is preferred.

- Excellent understanding of database design.

- Prior experience consulting with business analysis, data management, system architecture, and distributed technologies.

- Development of realistic plans, goals, and aligning plans with company goals, managing resources, and creating contingency plans.

- Ability to meet deadlines

- BA/BS in Software Engineering or Computer Science.

- 10+ years of experience in application development, software design, and architecture.

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