Technical Architect

About the Job
Role Purpose: To work with multiple teams and team’s business stakeholders and deliver state of the art digital experience through resilient, robust and blazing fast Omni channel Microservice designs.

Key Accountabilities

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team and others.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.
• Exert significant influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.
• Actively seek out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster.
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your team.
• Provide mentorship for all Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Seek out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability.
• Collaborate and decide on their team's engineering work based on the organization's engineering strategy, together with their teammates and senior engineers.
• Evaluate and create new product features in collaboration with the product team. Regularly participate in the creation of the team roadmap and ensuing feedback. Simplify product and technical design through proactive conversations.

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required

• Consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors. Bias towards self-documenting code.
• Understand the team's testing approach, and use quality metrics to identify gaps. Work with the team to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid.
• Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within the scope of their domain.
• Drive monitoring work on the team based on the organization's monitoring philosophy. Use operational data for the team's domain as a basis for driving changes to the team's services to achieve stability and performance improvements.
• Have expertise in their team's domain, including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems.
• Architect services and systems using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
• Anticipate future use cases and make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.