Senior Specialist Software Architect

So, what’s the role all about?

At Actimize, we are developing the next generation cloud platform that will host solutions in the space of Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Prevetion. As part of the R&D team, you will be responsible for architecting and developing the platform that is robust, fault-tolerant, available, scalable, secure and performant.

How will you make an impact?

NICE Actimize is the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions & has been consistently ranked as number one in the space

At NICE Actimize, we recognize that every employee’s contributions are integral to our company’s growth and success. To find and acquire the best and brightest talent around the globe, we offer a challenging work environment, competitive compensation, and benefits, and rewarding career opportunities. Come share, grow and learn with us – you’ll be challenged, you’ll have fun and you’ll be part of a fast growing, highly respected organization.

This new SaaS platform will enable our customers (some of the biggest financial institutes around the world) to create solutions on the platform to fight financial crime.

Have you got what it takes?

• The Software Architect is responsible for providing technical leadership across development teams in one or more functional areas.
• This position is ultimately responsible for the successful implementation of key deliverables to ensure that each release is designed with high availability, scalability, serviceability and supportability in mind.
• You will be responsible for the architecture of our product platform end to end. Reporting to the Director of Engineering and working closely with all the engineering functions, chief architect, architecture review board and the scrum teams.
• You will drive an open and extendible architecture, ensuring relevant technology solutions are being adopted, good engineering practices are implemented and the overall system design and architecture is kept while we develop new features to the market. You will have a key role in fostering innovation and ensuring adoption of new technologies as needed.
• We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering high quality enterprise cloud products that is are used by millions of users.
• You are expected to be very hands on and have an in-depth technical understanding of cloud software architecture

Main Responsibilities and Deliverables:

• Set the end-to-end technical direction for the team, including platform, technology, tools, and infrastructure.
• Communicate architecture in an effective and professional manor.
• Drive technical decisions, solve tough problems, and coordinate multiple project execution.
• Ensure that the Development coding quality standards and review processes are followed to ensure proper security and high availability standards.
• Monitoring the quality of code that is delivered by your team through reviews and other processes.
• Foster strong team work environment and create passion and energy within the team.
• Be an active participant in the development leadership team ensuring corporate success.
• Represents self and department with professionalism and competence.
• Follow the company Code of Ethics and policies and procedures at all times
• Overall responsibility for the platform architecture, establish well architected and designed solution. Working with several scrum teams and actively involved in the design of multiple features in parallel. Mentor and develop architects, engineers and Involvement in hiring great engineers.
• Participate in envisioning of next gen plans to achieve longer term strategic objectives of the organization.
• Drive the architecture of a project/product line, including authoring functional and design specifications, scalability, security, data flow, and interface.
• Contribution to the strategic vision of Guardian Analytics business unit.
• Identify impact of new technologies on our products and communicate to development teams.
• Partner with customers/prospects on product functionality and future direction; participate in industry briefings.
• Consider customer impact; when considering alternatives, evaluate whether something we are asking the customer to do would be reasonable. Attitude of quality, diligence and thoroughness.
• Conduct architectural and design reviews.
• Conduct code reviews
• Evaluate new technologies/innovations and industry trends.
• Intentionally drives business value through architectural innovation

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• 10-12 years of software development experience
• About 4 years experience as an architect for Cloud-SaaS-multi tenant applications .
• Development experience with APIs, Integrations, Middleware technologies, Web development technologies and Spring family of frameworks.
• Working Knowledge of design patterns, methodologies and architectural styles
• Experience in database design , Data APIs, Batches/Big Data
• Experience designing multi-tiered service-oriented applications and microservices ,REST
• Experience with AI/ML development or usage will be a big plus
• Experience with NoSQL DBs will be an advantage.
• Development experience of securing all tiers of the application.
• Exposure to Performance Engineering, Cloud SLA , Availability, resiliency will be a plus
• Technically Savvy , Influencer and Learner
• Experience using Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Test Automation
• Experience of driving improved Developer Experience using technology and tools

What’s in it for you?

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. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NiCEr!

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.

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