Senior Software Architect

Summary

Join NICE Public Safety division, a global leader in providing software solutions for the Public Safety & Justice market, as a Software Architect. You will be responsible for owning the architecture, design, implementation, and testing of UI, server, and interface components using C# in on-premise, multi-threaded, multi-server environments. You will lead technical decisions on architectural direction, ensuring the architecture considers security, scalability, compatibility, and maintainability. You will also mentor team members, liaise with Product Management, and contribute to a collaborative, team-based approach to architectural direction.

Requirements

• Be able to communicate effectively, including via email, instant message, phone, and video conferencing tools
• Be fierce in your pursuit of product quality
• Be an excellent problem solver with an active interest in the latest design and development tools and technologies
• Be knowledgeable and enthusiastic about process
• 7+ years of experience developing applications in C# using Visual Studio/Visual Studio Code
• Experience working in collaborative multidisciplinary teams
• Experience creating maintainable code and using source control solutions such as DevOps, GIT or similar
• Experience of unit testing, code reviews, and other product quality disciplines
• Solid understanding of the principles of network security, authentication, and authorization
• Experience of working with databases using Entity Framework or similar
• Good knowledge of SOLID principles
• Experience creating RESTful APIs and ensuring API extensibility

Responsibilities

• Owning the architecture, and carrying out design, implementation, and developer-level test, of UI, server, and interface components, using C#, in on-premise , multi-threaded, multi-server environments
• Leading technical decisions on architectural direction using a collaborative, team-based approach
• Ensuring the architecture takes into account the concerns of security, scalability, compatibility, and maintainability
• Performing testing of your work, fixing defects, and helping to resolve customer support cases
• Ensuring that the team adheres to the architectural direction and standards
• Mentoring and coaching team members in architecture practices and issues
• Liaising with Product Management during planning sessions
• Leading technical decisions but avoiding dictating the architectural direction, in favour of a collaborative, team-based approach

Preferred Qualifications

• Security best practice (OWASP top ten)
• MS SQL Server
• DevOps, TeamCity
• Windows services
• WCF
• Experience developing applications in C++ using Visual Studio Will be essential to have some C++ experience in the team

Benefits

• Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment!
• As the market leader, every day at NICE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations
• Enjoy NICE-FLEX!
• At NICE, we work according to the NICE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week
• Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere