About the Role
We're looking for a skilled Technical Architect with top-notch design abilities, technical knowledge, and excellent communication skills to join our team.
You will work closely with our global team of Project Managers, Business Analysts, Technical Leads, and Test Leads to enhance functionality, add new features, and improve non-functional specifications.
As a customer-facing role, you'll provide support to customers as they implement our product and bring it into production.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments and is passionate about staying ahead of the curve in the travel industry.
Datalex partners with leading content and payment providers, giving you the chance to collaborate with the best in the industry at every level.
Responsibilities:
* Architect and develop solutions with the Engineering teams.
* Translate business requirements into system-level design and detailed technical architecture documents.
* Take a leadership role within the implementation team to deliver our product per customer requirements, driving architectural decisions and best practices.
* Maintain a strong understanding of industry standards and collaborate with fellow team leaders on prioritizing and executing ongoing platform improvement initiatives.
* Work with our Operations team to analyze the performance of our systems in a production environment and evaluate enhancements to the operation of our product for performance and cost benefits.
* Ensure all non-functional requirements are being met.
* Identify and implement development environment improvements.
* Contribute to the long-term development of our product suite.
* Identify opportunities for and drive Continuous Improvement activities.
* Provide consultancy services to our customers as they implement our product.
Requirements:
* Experience as a Technical Architect, Technical Lead, or Software Architect.
* Hands-on software development experience is essential.
* E-commerce (retail) industry experience or experience in high-transaction volume or mission-critical systems is desirable.
* Strong leadership skills.
* Design experience, including knowledge of Technical Architecture, Logical Architecture, Business Architecture, and Data Architecture.
* Strong communication skills.
* Customer-facing experience in previous roles is an advantage.
* A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
* Experience delivering high-quality customer-facing design documentation.
* Be a self-starter with a strong problem-solving aptitude.
* Ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
* Knowledge in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture.
* Expertise in some or all of the following technologies: Java, J2EE, SOA, JBoss, Tomcat, JDBC, SOAP, REST, OOD/OOA, and Cloud (AWS & Azure).
* Experience working with database systems – Oracle, MongoDB.