Senior Technical Architect

Summary

Join IOG as a Senior Technical Architect and take ownership of product technical decisions. You will design solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements, collaborating with product managers and stakeholders. Provide technical leadership and oversight to development teams, delegating tasks effectively. Ensure alignment of feature requests and the product roadmap with long-term system stability and sustainability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain efficient and aligned development processes. This role requires a deep understanding of software architecture, agile methodologies, and strong leadership skills.

Requirements

• A Degree in Computer Science/Engineering
• A minimum of 5 years of industrial/commercial development
• A minimum of 3 years as technical architect
• A minimum of 3 years as leader of a software development team
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Experience working together with scientists, researchers and formal methods specialists
• Knowledge of selected programming languages (e.g. Haskell, Javascript, Rust, Scala)
• Proven aptitude in: Writing and Oral Communication
• Proven aptitude in: Organization
• Proven aptitude in: Problem-solving

Responsibilities

• Support agile software development practices
• Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution and explore alternatives
• Participate and give technical advice in decisions related to work prioritization
• Participate in iteration planning to decide how much of the highest priority work is reasonable to select for execution in a given iteration
• Review acceptance criteria of the critical tasks assigned to developers
• Communicate technical details with scientists, researchers, and developers
• Summarize technical details about proposed solutions to management and business decision-makers
• Contribute to the work breakdown and allocation decisions to get the best out of team members
• Ensure that recommended software engineering principles are followed
• Enable a continuous delivery of features through appropriate architecture design and establish timeline and milestones
• Distinguish features and enablers and proactively recommend work on enablers to allow the future implementation of features
• Define subsystems and their interfaces, allocating clear responsibilities to subsystems
• Establish and raise awareness of critical non-functional requirements
• Document the architecture and technical solution decisions in a common source of truth location
• Ensure that our products do not depend on unstable and immature external libraries
• Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
• Select appropriate solutions to problems
• Be conscious of the costs of architectural decisions and take these costs into account when jointly making important decisions
• Manage and evolve legacy solutions and integrate with legacy technology when appropriate
• Acquire a deep technical understanding of problems and solution spaces
• Maintain a firm and updated grasp of CS and Engineering techniques
• Review literature and learn new topics relevant to the problems that must be solved
• Know the limitations of your knowledge and experience to know when to learn more or when to look for outside expertise
• Support and encourage the software engineers
• Provide technical guidance to software engineers
• Recognize when training is worth the time and contribute to decisions on training
• Ensure that software engineering principles are followed
• Define and document technical and architectural visions for products, libraries, or components
• Design technical solutions (features, libraries, components, ...) for business requirements and objectively document how well the solutions satisfy the requirements
• Break down solutions into smaller tasks with clear acceptance criteria and a short completion time
• Mentor, influence and/or lead teams of software engineers (including line management duties)

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO