Job description 

In one sentence

In charge of the architectural roadmap, provides architecture solutions during the software development lifecycle and performs sophisticated software engineering tasks.

All you need is...

The ideal person for our team will:
•    Above all else, you will have excellent analytical, communication and organizational skills and the ability to run multiple tasks at a given time
•    Have a relevant Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent degree and have a curiosity to learn more.
•    Have proven capability with Cloud Native architectures, reactive design patterns and programming frameworks, big data technologies and functional programming
•    Understand how to design for performance both at the overall solution level encompassing many microservices and at a per-microservice level
•    Demonstrable knowledge of design patterns associated with a microservices architecture is crucial.  
•    Have worked in a very senior developer or Specialist role and are capable of independently designing and delivering software

We would love it if you had…
•    Extensive Java experience with REST, OSGi, Vert.x, Spring Boot, RxJava and Lambda expressions
•    Worked with DevOps pipelines – incorporating Kubernetes and the multitude of deployment pipeline tooling that supports it (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Helm, Harbor, Nexus Sonatype etc)
•    Experience with performance profiling tools, such as Yourkit and Flight Recorder.
•    Knowledge of persistence models such as RDBMS and NoSQL and technologies such as Elasticsearch, Rocks DB, Cassandra.
•    Knowledge of security protocols such as TLS
•    Have experience with public clouds such as AWS or Azure
•    Experience with 3GPP protocols, ideally the PCRF and/or PCF specific protocols

What will your job look like?

You will join a team of architects that are building a suite of cloud-native solutions. These solutions are delivered with a high level of focus on CI/CD, containerization technologies and a DevOps mindset. We are keen to bring into our team an experienced architect who has a desire to solve complex problems, has a deep understanding of their technology to the point where they can drive change in it, enjoys working in a team, has the capability to technically lead and mentor others in the team and is eager to take on new problems and share solutions as we push forward with our innovative offerings.
Work independently as well as collaboratively, it is so important to have a ‘can-do’ approach to teamwork.

You will…
•    Work closely with the Product Owners to translate their business needs into a scalable, performant, reliable architecture. 
•    Collaborate with the larger architecture team on cross-product architectural concerns
•    Identify and quantify missing non-functional requirements (availability, scalability, performance, operability, serviceability, etc).
•    Define and clarify User Stories for the development teams, collaborate with them on lower-level design to ensure it is aligned with our high-level priorities and provide guidance to them on implementation decisions.
•    Research, prototype and select new technologies and designs.
•    Provide technical input into budgeting and planning process with technical development strategy, high level designs and estimates.
•    Design solutions to implement 3GPP and other telecommunications standards and protocols.