Senior Sitecore Application Architect

Primary Purpose

Responsible for establishing and providing leadership to the technology strategy and technology roadmaps, as well as product recommendations that enable the business. Designs, develops and maintains the enterprise methodologies and techniques, including standards and guidelines for enterprise-wide use in technical management and systems of process development. Develops specifications for new products/services, applications and service offerings. Provides technical oversight and architecture/engineering solutions to large, strategic, complex system and application development projects. Recognized as a thought leader within discipline who influences decisions made by senior leadership and advances the craft of architecture and engineering within our organization.

What you will be doing:

Consults with engineering teams on major architectural designs for product roadmap to ensure consistency, security, maintainability and flexibility with respect to overall system, technical and product architectures within a domain or portfolio.

Provides consultation and collaborates with technology leaders, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short range product features.

Designs and develops architecture (integrated process, methodology, framework, software/applications, data, information, and technology) scalable solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.

Reviews and ensures major architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible and cost effective solutions.

Participates with application and infrastructure teams to provide guidance for development and releases.

Maintains collaborative and strategic partnerships between customers, vendors, business partners, and technology teams.

Remains hands on with architecture and engineering activities and is deeply embedded in the role of technology.

Shares engineering knowledge and expertise across the organization and industry through networks, events and communities of practice.

What we hope you bring to the role:

Education

Bachelor's Degree is required.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in technical or business discipline or equivalent experience

Experience

Experience with deploying applications to the cloud working with database services/storage services.

In depth understanding of shared software concepts and product features, as well as security minded.

10 years of experience.

Knowledge of product and system components of technical architecture.

In depth knowledge of diverse and emerging technologies and new architectural concepts and principles.

In depth knowledge of business operations, objectives and strategies; in depth understanding of global business and technology trends

Strong influencing and consensus building skills, and the adaptability to respond to change quickly.

Strong communications skills, both written and verbal.

Ability to effectively collaborate with all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds.

Proven experience with agile practices and expectations.

Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.

Strong consulting skills (relevant/technical); recognized as a thought leader within the company.

Ability to balance the long-term big picture and short term implications of decisions.

Well-versed in cloud technologies from a programming point of view.

Strong Hands on working experience with more than 5 years in Sitecore space

Deep understanding of various sitecore implementations such as MVC, SXA and JSS framework

knowledge on Latest sitecore products such as Content hub, Sitecore search etc.

Strong technical / coding experience in .Net core and deep understanding of Various API patterns such as REST, GraphQL etc.

Ability to code and mentor the team.

Experience with Sitecore 10+ version

Strong working knowledge of more than 3 + years in Azure Cloud

Good understanding of Docker Containerization and AKS to run Sitecore.

Good understanding on UI technologies such as Angular is a great plus