Position: Platform Architect
Company: A-HR
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

This is one of the world’s most respected experts in digital commerce on the Magento and Adobe Commerce Cloud platform. As a full-service omnichannel agency, we deliver strategy, design, development and managed services to brands, retailers and manufacturers all over the world.
The main goal of the Architect is to evangelize, design, and deliver cloud solutions that power service offering. In this role, you should lead brainstorming sessions to develop solutions for business needs or problems. It requires working with product and delivery teams to develop scalable solutions and products. Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and continually researching current and emerging technologies to propose changes where needed. As a solution architect, you will be working in the Platform Engineering team to ensure the coherence and consistency of selected tools and frameworks. You guide the teams to define and develop the services and interfaces according to the selected architecture.
Your daily tasks will also include:
•	Analysis of current technologies used within the company and ways to improve them
•	Finding and documenting solutions to business requirements
•	Defining the shape and structure of the infrastructure solutions
•	Considering how solutions will scale and how it will be operated and maintained
•	Managing the risk in third-party dependencies
•	Managing the complexity of the solution
As an architect, you should have comprehensive development and architecture experience to fulfil these tasks. For defining, implementing, and verifying the best product & service architecture you work collaboratively with business and tech stakeholders, including both – people and also processes aspects. To succeed, you should:
•	Be proactive and forthcoming
•	Able to negotiate a solution with various groups of people
•	Able to understand and explain complex problems to all stakeholders in simple terms
•	Be an agile leader (if also a scrum master)

Skills & Requirements:
•	Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in the IT Industry
•	Experience with multiple languages, platforms and technologies:
•	Proven experience architecting, implementing, maintaining scalable distributed production infrastructure
•	Strong understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on cloud platforms and understand how to use them together to build complex solutions (GCP preferred)
•	Strong understanding of cloud-based application architecture, microservice containerization using native cloud services
•	Experience with container and container orchestration technology (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
•	A strong desire to stay up-to-date on technical trends in order to suggest innovative tools and approaches to interesting problems
•	Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely manner to a variety of audiences.
•	Proficient spoken and written English is essential
Education:
•	BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field required