Software Architect Tech Lead

Summary

Andersen is hiring a Software Architect Tech Lead to drive the architecture and technical direction of a large-scale workforce development platform. The role focuses on ensuring scalability, reliability, and effective engineering practices.

The customer is a major holding organization operating in the labor-market sector within the Middle East. It focuses on developing sustainable initiatives and fostering collaboration between public and private entities to drive long-term, positive changes in employment opportunities and workforce development.

The project is focused on developing and evolving a national-scale platform that supports large-scale reskilling and upskilling programs by connecting trainees, employers, training providers, and government stakeholders. The work includes defining and guiding the software architecture, driving technical innovation, and ensuring the engineering organization is structured and supported to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architecting, designing, developing, and executing software solutions to address business needs.
• Interacting with stakeholders to identify and elaborate requirements such that implementation is specified and achievable.
• Analyzing existing software solutions and finding ways to improve or rework them to meet targets.
• Owning the software architecture and design within the organization, including its documentation and explanation, and ensuring that it is up to date with implementation.
• Preparing and maintaining documentation for architectures, designs, and implementation.
• Leading the strategic technical direction of the software products and associated tools.
• Playing a role in leading the software teams in terms of development methodology and processes.
• Driving the collaboration and integration with other teams including: Product Specification (product, design, hardware, quality, support, etc.).
• Serving as a sounding board for developers and participating in the review process as appropriate.
• Contributing towards strategy decisions and proposing technological innovations that are aligned with business needs and Engineering goals.
• Managing people, including coaching, mentoring, and training direct reports.
• Mentoring Engineering team members and contributing to team growth and skill plans.
• Carrying out additional duties or responsibilities that fall reasonably within the remit of the role.

Requirements

• Degree in a technical discipline and at least 5 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Previous Development Experience, 8+ years with Cloud or embedded systems.
• Strong problem solving, communication, and analytical skills.
• Experience in technically designing and creating complex systems that require a deep understanding of the application logic and dependencies.
• Experience with analysis, design, implementation, and migration of complex databases.
• Experience with the cloud architecture: design and implementation.
• Experience scaling cloud applications to meet the demands of a growing product.
• Experience in advanced build and debugging environments and tools.
• Experience in design of test environment and structure.
• Experience in agile methodologies.
• Experience in Java, Spring Framework for cloud systems: Spring Data, Spring Security; Spring Modulith
• Experience in working with source control tool based on git, Gitlab.
• Experience in IP (Internet Protocol) network protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, REST, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).
• Experience in real time messaging / non blocking I/O technologies (WebRTC).
• Experience with video-based analytics and algorithms.
• Experience in debugging of cloud and embedded / IoT systems.
• Experience delivering SaaS (Software as Service) products.
• Experience delivering IoT products.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud (OCI) technologies.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience with Redis, Graph and SQL Databases.
• Experience in ElasticSearch.
• Experience in RabbitMQ .
• Ability to work collaboratively in team.
• Clear speaking, listening and written communication skills.
• Core ability to explain and engage stake holders both technical and non in your designs and solutions.
• Disciplined and self-driven.
• Ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to negotiate and influence.
• Ability to problem solve.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to effectively deal with conflict.
• Ability to multi-task and stay organized.
• High attention to detail.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure.
• Ability to use own initiative.
• Level of English –Upper-Intermediate+ and above.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities

Join us!