Mobility Architect
Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES:
As Mobile Architect for our Digital and Mobile practice you will define, develop and manage architecture strategy and solution for both our Retail clients and our Proximity Engagement Platform. You will be a key part of delivering Enterprise Architecture plans to support end user mobile and digital software. For client related work, you will work to understand the current systems in place, and define a technology roadmap that supports a functional roadmap and covers the entire technology stack.
On the product side, you will identify and prioritize the key capabilities the platform needs act as a product owner in defining the technical specifications, create solution approaches and work with the engineering teams in building the roadmap for executing the strategy.
Candidate should be flexible, team player with a desire to learn have fun and drive our retail client’s business forward with technology.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsibilities include but are not limited to functional requirements review architecture strategy development and platform architecture design.
- Work with engineering professionals, architects and others within our clients and SPI to ensure that the solution will scale appropriately while being cost effective.
- Identify opportunities in the engineering platform that will drive improvements in performance scalability reliability and re-usability. Create architecture specifications to meet the platform needs.
- Propose platform architecture solutions and ensure the engineering teams and Senior Leadership align with the solutions.
- Maintain technology roadmap of the engineering platform and proactively work with the program management organization in driving the technology roadmap.
- Provide guideline and long term architecture strategy and ensure compliance of the reference architecture and security requirements.
- Perform proofs of concept (POCs) and other technical evaluations of technologies designs and solutions if required.
- Manage the creation of technical architect design documentation.
- Troubleshoot production problems when requested and ensure that a proper resolution is identified and implemented in a timely manner.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of five years of experience in systems and solution design, architecture and development.
- Must have prior experience in architecting and/or developing systems that have mobile and digital front-end and backend. Hands-on experience on both iOS and Android development environments.
- Understand approaches and challenges in releasing mobile applications and lifecycle of these applications.
- Knowledge in Mobile Backend as a Service and key components of mobile backend services.
- Have exposure in mobile security for consumer facing applications.
- Expert knowledge in HTTP, REST, JSON, XML, SPA and design patterns.
- Experience in a retail technology environment a Plus. This includes the full stack of ecommerce, Product/Catalog Data, Customer Data, Store Data, Point of Sale, etc.
- Strongly versed in system architecture principles and demonstrated Architecture/Engineering experiences several areas of Security, NFC, Mobile, Java, J2EE, Performance Scalability, Messaging and Authentication.
- Knowledge in MySQL and NoSQL database systems.
- Experience in building high-volume consumer facing systems and/or ecommerce systems is a strong plus.
- Requires Client facing/client management experience.
Recruiter: Srinidhi Manjunath
Category: ANDROID, JAVA, IOS
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Posted: 05/05/2016