Job Summary:
As a Software Associate Architect for the ONESOURCE Statutory Reporting (OSR) team, you will be a pivotal technical leader, responsible for defining, designing, and guiding the architectural vision and implementation of our technology solutions. You will play a critical role in shaping the technical roadmap for OSR, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and delivering significant business impact.
You will collaborate closely with dedicated software development engineers within the OSR team, providing deep technical guidance and mentorship to foster architectural best practices and high-quality solution delivery. Your expertise will be crucial in understanding key OSR features and their underlying functionality, enabling you to design scalable, robust, and maintainable systems.
Working in strong partnership with Product Management and UX Design, you will translate market needs and user experiences into coherent and effective architectural blueprints. This role encompasses influencing and governing the entire end-to-end software development life cycle for OSR, from initial design and technology selection through to supporting maintenance, minor functional releases, and major strategic projects.
You will be instrumental in leading technical discussions, evaluating new technologies, and driving architectural decisions to continuously improve our processes and leverage cutting-edge engineering best practices within the team. While this role is primarily technical, your leadership will extend to providing technical mentorship and guidance to OSR Software Development Engineers across all levels, ensuring their growth and capability development aligns with architectural standards and product demands. You will contribute to setting technical expectations and providing continuous architectural feedback to achieve optimal system performance and customer satisfaction.
About the role:
Define and evolve the architectural vision, principles, and roadmap for ONESOURCE Statutory Reporting (OSR) applications and services.
Design scalable, secure, high-performing, and maintainable software solutions, translating complex business requirements into technical specifications and architectural blueprints.
Conduct in-depth technical reviews of designs and code, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, patterns, and best practices.
Evaluate and recommend technology stacks, tools, and platforms that align with strategic goals and optimize solution delivery for OSR.
Provide expert technical guidance and mentorship to the OSR software development engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
Collaborate effectively with Product Management and UX Design to ensure architectural designs meet functional and non-functional requirements.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives in the software development lifecycle for OSR, focusing on architectural efficiency, quality, and speed.
Research emerging technologies and architectural patterns, assessing their applicability and potential benefits for the OSR product suite.
Act as a technical liaison and subject matter expert for the OSR product, communicating architectural decisions and trade-offs to various stakeholders.
About you:
To be suitable for a Software Architect position on the ONESOURCE Statutory Reporting (OSR) team, a person needs a strong blend of deep technical expertise, architectural design skills, and specific domain knowledge related to financial reporting and compliance including:
Experience : 8-12 years
Strong Technical Acumen: Demonstrates deep technical expertise, capable of providing hands-on support, developing new approaches to ambiguous problems, evaluating new technologies, and identifying infrastructure/technology stack optimizations.
Deep understanding and practical experience with various architectural patterns (e.g., Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Layered/N-Tier, API-driven design, Data Lake/Warehouse).
Ability to design scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and performant systems.
Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
Knowledge of design principles (SOLID, DRY, KISS) and their application.
Strong background in software development with hands-on coding experience, preferably in languages relevant to the existing OSR stack (e.g., C#, Java, Python, Go, Node.js).
Ability to perform code reviews, identify technical debt, and ensure code quality.
Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and performance optimization techniques.
Expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) including IaaS, PaaS, and FaaS.
Knowledge of cloud services for compute, storage, networking, databases, and security.
Understanding of cloud cost optimization and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Ability to design secure applications, understanding common vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies (OWASP Top 10).
Knowledge of authentication, authorization, encryption, and data privacy principles.
Proficiency in designing relational and non-relational databases.
Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, data lakes, and data pipelines.
Knowledge of data migration strategies and data governance.
Excellent analytical skills to diagnose complex technical issues across distributed systems.
Ability to propose innovative and practical solutions to challenging problems.
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