Solutions Architect .NET R&D

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Solutions Architect work on architectural design and delivery of an award winning product. This role is based in Dublin and you will be co-located with talented engineering squads to whom s/he will provide architectural guidance and hands on assistance where required.

You will have extensive experience in designing and building complex, large-scale SaaS products.Reporting directly to the Engineering Leader this role is part of their expanding R&D team that is focused on increased speed to market, significant scale and is currently transitioning the existing product to a micro-services based architecture. The Solutions Architect will work directly with and alongside cross functional teams in design problems, best practices and compliance. A deep understanding of architecture patterns, SaaS, micro-services, .NET and SQL Server is essential. Experience with technologies outside of the .NET stack such as NoSQL, Javascript, etc is advantageous, as is AWS experience.

8+ years in application development roles with a

Minimum of 2 years as a solution architect

Common patterns in distributed systems (REST, SOA, DDD )

Lower level design patterns for micro service based component architectures, such as CQRS

.NET framework (WCF, ASMX, MVC, Web API, Windows Services, WebForms etc.).

Large scale SQL and NoSQL technologies.

Distributed caching and related open source tools.

RPC request/response, asynchronous communication, and message based communication (RabbitMQ, nServiceBus).

OO JavaScript and JSON with an emphasis on use of JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, jQuery UI, Angular)

AWS environment preferable

Delivering and owning micro services in a SaaS environment.

Measuring and improving performance of production systems.

Modern software development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban/Lean/XP)

Highly scalable, highly available platforms.

Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery & Automation.

Scaling applications to large user base

Company / Culture / Benefits:- Highly successful high tech organisation. Fun, collaborative and friendly working environment. Casual dress, hackathons, a company who drives innovation and ideas. Excellent salaries include bonus, 26 days holidays, $8K educational allowance, Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance, 8% matched pension contribution.

Responsibilities with this Solutions Architect .NET R&D job:

Leading technology projects through the full SDLC

Develop and maintain solution architecture models

Work with delivery teams in the design and implementation of core components

Drive the development of future state architecture

Develop strategic plans for application decomposition to micro services

Participate in the building of high performing teams through mentoring, coaching and developing internal talent and recruiting industry top talent

Be an innovation champion and evangelist

Work with key stakeholders and the product team to understand future requirements and provide solution level technical designs

Lead architecture and technical designs reviews.

Work closely with the Enterprise Architects in carrying out the overall vision for our product architecture

Provide recommendations and assist in determining which projects to prioritise and make the trade-off between technical debt and new functionality.

Take a leading role in defining coding standards and code reviews to ensure a higher quality product

Educate developers on topics ranging from basic principles like decoupling, interface segregation, writing clean code, etc

Best in class engineering practice

Automated CI/CD practices

Smaller, decoupled components

Micro-services and event driven architecture

Removal of bottlenecks for scalable architecture

Work with third parties to integrate systems or components in the company's products

Development of Proof of Concept's as part of future solution assessments.

Write code for features that utilise new or unfamiliar technologies, coding practices or languages

Analyse code coverage and other metrics to identify potential areas for improvement and/or refactoring.

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