What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Architecture Manager position at Jobs via Dice?
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Leads a team of software architects providing services and architectures that enable the development of resilient, scalable software. Manages the day-to-day operations of the software architecture area.
- Provides leadership, guidance, and coaching to the architecture team(s) responsible for creating and supporting architectures.
- Develops, implements, and maintains a team organization that ensures skills and capacity for project and enhancement work, while providing superior support for devlopment teams utilizing the architecture.
- Partners with the principal and senior architects and software engineers to drive the development and curation of the architecture.
- Builds relationships and collaborates with application delivery teams to provide architecture services and support.
- Ensures that the team of architects follow sound practices and processes that remain consistent with the established architecture.
- Leads the planning and implementation of large, complex work efforts.
- Maintains knowledge of key Uline business processes supported by our applications and technology.
- Ensures requests for software architecture services are understood, prioritized, and addressed.
- Maintains productive management level relationships with the company’s business functions.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the activities enumerated above.
- 10 years application development experience
- 5 years leading software architects.
- Experience managing architects curating software architectures for custom development and packaged software implementations.
- Experience with both custom application software development and packaged software implementations.
- Experience in waterfall and agile development processes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including ability to present complex topics in terms relatable to business partners.
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems, determine appropriate actions and complete projects with little direction.
- Ability to meet tight deadlines and thrive in a multi-project environment, while ensuring production systems are up and performing well.
- May require travel to branch and international locations.
- Exhibits qualities such as being decisive, organized, empathetic and dedicated.
- Strong prior experience with management of architectures leverging a distributed micro-services architecture developed in Java, JavaScript or C#.
- Ability to motivate and inspire team members. Well-developed coaching and performance management skills.