Software Architecture Manager

Summary

Plans and manages the development, maintenance, and support of enterprise software architecture solutions and services by performing the following duties, personally or through subordinates.

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.

Experience:

• 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.

Competencies/Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including ability to present complex topics in terms of 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 leveraging 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.