Position: Digital Solutions R&D Architect
Company: Philip Morris
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

Responsibilities:
— Choosing appropriate tools for our development team usage
— Ensuring architecture strategy aligns with business objectives
— Together with IT Department develop the infrastructure solution
— Support inter-team collaboration and integration problems
— Collaborate with Digital, Business and IT partners across the organization from a strategic and tactical perspective to set direction to produce & support quality software solutions
— Research and investigate technical issues impacting the organization and recommend solutions

Requirements:
— Strong interpersonal communication and collaborative problem-solving skills
— Experience with business requirements gathering and their translation to technical requirements, strategic architecture and design
— Experience in agile practices (Scrum, Kanban)
— Experience with SCM (git)
— Experience developing and leading large-scale technology platforms
— Understanding of best practices across technologies (client/server-side, QA, deployment, project management etc.)
— Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
— Understanding of all architectural components and their interrelationships

Technical experience:
— Architecture: fault tolerance, scalability, separation of concerns
— Background as software, infrastructure or as a system engineer
— Knowledge of AWS, experience in deploying high availability solutions in AWS
— Good understanding of web services (REST, Web API) and best practices to build RIA
— Strong understanding of system/software architecture patterns (Microservices, SOA, Event-Driven)
— Knowledge of Software development and delivery processes and frameworks
— Knowledge of Containers 
— Experience with client-side technologies e.g., Node, Angular
— Experience with relational and noSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc.)