Do you believe that you cannot be an accomplished software designer/architect and consider yourself “post-technical ” Are you solution driven rather than technology specific Do you want to work alongside the people who wrote some of the industry’s best practices We are currently looking for Enterprise Architects who are real innovators, who understand the issues businesses face and can work with them to create robust, scalable, elegant, flexible and relevant software solutions that truly transform industries. We want people who see technology, process and organizational problems, are driven to fix them and along the way influence the industry to move in a better direction
It’s about big brains not big egos
When some people think of leaders they see them working in corner offices at the top of the building. That’s not how it works here. Yes, you’ll be one of our most experienced senior people and with that will come significant responsibility for how we manage and deliver business-critical software solutions. But we don’t do heavy management or big company politics.
We are collaborators, which means you’ll be sat around the same table as project managers, developers, architects, testers and analysts, coming up with creative ways to translate concepts and ideas into practical and tactical solutions, foster innovation and maximize customer’s ROI.
Responsibilities:
Take the needs and challenges of a client and formulate the technical roadmap and technology solution that will support their business strategies and goals.
Provide Technical leadership across all areas of the enterprise, to ensure delivery of exceptional technical solutions
Formulate and articulate the technical and political implication of real world solutions
Orchestrate the management of technology scope and risks
Mentor on approach and execution of solutions, coach on technologies and establishing a team wide comprehension of solution capabilities and direction
Ensure technical expectations of deliverables are met
Drive ThoughtWorks’ Thought-Leadership on engineering and architectural practices and standards
Be an inspiration of innovation to the client
Become a trusted and valued partner of the client CIO/CTO and team
Exploit opportunities for networking and relationship building that arise out of delivery activities
Creates and supports sales activities
Maintaining strong expertise and knowledge of current and emerging technologies and products
It’s a big ask
Experience leading and inspiring software development teams
Minimum of 15 total years of software development and infrastructure architecture experience, with at least 5 years designing and architecting enterprise web applications
Expertise in multiple technologies (including Java, .Net, Ruby/RoR etc) across software engineering, security, data interchange, data management, etc
Experience working with CTO/COO to create technical strategies
Solid understanding of the practical application of agile development methods and leading software development teams in an Agile/Lean environment
Experience working directly with senior IT groups in an advisory role
Ideally experience contributing to the professional community as a speaker, author or online contributor
Computer Science Degree or Technical equivalent, MS a plus
ThoughtWorks, a break from the mainstream
We tackle complex, mission-critical applications like many other software companies. But that is where the similarity ends. We consider ourselves a social and commercial community built on the basic core values of attitude, aptitude and integrity. This is why we don’t subscribe to traditional corporate life. As a community of intellectual free thinkers, we’re always looking for different and better ways of doing things. Our aim is to create software and provide consulting grounded in reality; obsessed with delivering value, we help organizations become efficient through Agile and Lean practices and principles, facts not lost on the growing number of customers who see us as a trusted software partner.
Industry: IT Consulting/Services
Discipline: SW Design/Dev
Experience: 11 - 15 Years
Compensation: 180K
Company: ThoughtWorks