Position: Solution Architect
Company: CHI Software
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

**Personal skills and qualifications:**

**General:**
— Master degree in computer science or related fields
— 5+ years of experience in IT
— Past experience in architecting & designing enterprise-class software products
— Deep understanding of applications` architecture and design principles/patterns
— Solid knowledge and understanding of software development
— Past experience in consulting and working with international customers (considered as an advantage)
— Good understanding in development frameworks (development practice is an advantage):
Java and J2EE
JavaScript (any of: plain JS, Angular; JQuery, Node.js etc.)
.Net (considered as an advantage)
Mobile development (Android, iOS)
— Application security (including: data protection, authentication & authorization)
— Databases:
RDMBS
NoSQL
Cloud PaaS solutions
— Cloud Solutions:
Good understanding of public cloud services (DNS, networking, application hosting services, data storage services, security)
Past experience build project in top Cloud service providers is considered as an advantage (Amazon AWS or MS Azure)
— Set of soft skills:
Strong analytical skills
Exceptional communication and presentation skills
— Diagramming skills using word notations standards (e.g. BPMN, UML etc)
— Project Management skills: ability to lead a team, organize work and delivery process.
— Fluent English

**We offer**

**With us you can:**

Develop your technical knowledge:
— Use latest technologies
— Participate in technical events and conferences (the cost is covered by the company)
— Regular techtalks and professional development

Improve your soft skills:
— Build strong teamwork skills and become an essential part of the dynamic teams
— Improve your English at classes and speaking directly with clients
— Increase your productivity and communication level via Scrum, Kanban, Agile methodologies

What else do we offer?
— Competitive compensation and benefits
— Flexible and negotiable schedule
— Nice and comfortable office located near metro station
— Covered rest period (20 business days)
— Free English classes (we have 3 teachers in our team)
— Break area with Xbox, air hockey, ping-pong and table soccer
— Truly friendly atmosphere and unforgettable events
— Bookcrossing
— Basketball and ping-pong teams
— Discounts offered by individual bonus cards (our partners are coffee shops, bars, and fitness centers)

**Responsibilities**

Responsibilities (may vary depending on title level):

— Sales engineering — helping different customers to implement their infrastructure in the developed systems.
— Gather key functional and non-functional requirements and architecture/design constraints from projects’ stakeholders and create respective documents;
— Plan architecture-related work, professionally present these plans and regularly update stakeholders regarding the progress;
— Work on solution architecture and design, which includes both infrastructure and software application components.
— Analyze technical and operational efficiency of existing solutions and provide respective analysis reports and proposals;
— Assess existing software implementation quality (architecture/design/coding) and provide respective reports;
— Participate in software prototypes building during projects’ start-up (including technology research and evaluation if necessary) and document prototyping results and respective technical proposal;
— Design and plan solution delivery in most optimal way;
— Support applications’ development from technical perspective in construction and transition phases;
— Present all aforementioned work to internal and customers’ stakeholders.