Software Architect

Who We Are

• Amigo Software Pvt. Limited is a UK based company.
• A market leader in IP Telephony products with a customer base in more than 80 countries and 400+ installation sites worldwide.
• Amigo works closely with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE).
• A Premium Development Partner as well as Preferred Integration Partner for Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow™, Amigo is at the forefront of innovation and technology.
• You will work for a people centric organization with impressive goals as well as work with the latest technologies in an incredibly innovative and collaborative environment.

Who We Are Looking For

• Amigo Software is actively seeking a Software Solution Architect in our Lahore office.
• The successful candidate will be a confident technical architect who is able to take a pragmatic yet well-structured approach to designing and developing applications. 

What You Will Do

• Review and summarize solution architectures associated with amigo products.
• Manage the development team ensuring every team member has the necessary tasks assigned on a daily basis. Implement and maintain targets for all supervised team members.
• Plan and execute projects, ensure that teams have appropriate product and technical specifications and direction to deliver products effectively by establishing estimates for timelines and ensuring that projects remain on target to meet deadlines.
• Develop functional specifications for use by the software developers.
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure the system's functional requirements is in alignment with the business needs.
• Act as a central reference and information source, providing guidance and assistance in the system project decision-making process.
• Evolve the existing software system applications and architecture in various areas as needed.
• Conduct regular meetings with the team and stakeholders as required.
• Take responsibility to deploy functional solutions with maximum focus on efficiency and quality.
• Maintain accuracy, efficiency and robustness of the developed code through final testing of delivered systems/routines/programs.
•  Maintain efficient, usable, well-constructed and clearly documented programme code.
• Maintain awareness of the progress and status of all work being undertaken in the team, meet all deadlines and provide weekly reports to line manager.
•  Oversee resolution of support issues, passed on by the Technical Support Team for released applications
• Training of the Support Team to improve their understanding of the implemented product.
• Work in partnership with the QA Testing Manager in performing functionality, usability, regression and load testing of products.
•  Maintain up to date knowledge of industry best practice in tools, language and systems in order to ensure that all development is in line with current trends and industry relevance.
• What You Will Need
• Technical Skills and Experience:
• 7+ years of combined experience architect, designing, and implementing multi-tiered software applications
• Proven team leadership of software development teams
• A university degree in computer science or related field of study.
•  Experience in architect/developing systems in a team environment
• Experienced with all aspects of architecture including application, data, security and infrastructure
• In depth understanding of network infrastructure, systems data flows, etc.
• Project management experience with scrum framework is highly desirable
• Experience in AWS server less architecture
• Good knowledge of cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with CI/CD and building test automation frameworks
• Front-end architecture experience (Angular JS, Node.js, React, CSS, HTML)
•  Experience with NOSQL databases (Elastic search, Mongo DB, HBase)
•  Good understanding of Git, VSTS and Docker
•  Application of API security standards, including OAuth2.0 / OIDC
•  Knowledge of best practices related to code branching, build, testing and release.
•  Ideally be experienced in most of the following:
• Microsoft tech stack: C#, .Net/Azure
• DevOps
• Agile

Performance Competencies:

• Enterprise environment experience
• Experienced with program/projects involving complex integration of different types of technologies/platforms
• Excellent English Language skills.
• Team-management and leadership skills
• Communicates in clear and concise manner, written and verbal.
• Strong Design & Documentation skills
• Proactive, team-oriented, flexible, independent thinker with good problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate dynamic problem-solving skills
• Must have good analytical skills.
•  Cooperates, collaborates, and works toward common goal with others.
• Show a highly committed attitude