Senior Engineer: Software Architecture at MultiChoice

Purpose of the Position:

• To play a key role in the delivery of software projects to meet the departments objectives

Key Performance Objectives
Tasks
Operational Delivery

• Proven architectural designs
• Review product management and customer's requirements
• Software related documentation
• Mentorship of junior staff
• Setting up/configuring of development and production environments
• Contribute to process improvement activities
• Develop a deep understanding of the domain
• Drive technical design
• Problem solve with partners and teams
• Collaborate and assist with integration
• Identify and build tools to streamline integrations and improve efficiency
• Development of software applications and systems
• Hands-on over the end to end development
• Software Platform working with both client & server teams
• Select the best architecture considering the available technologies, required performance, available resources and general timeframe
• During development, the software architect shall guide and support engineers with the design of features.
• Evaluate new technologies implementing POCs and manage risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture.
• Help R&D to resolve difficult technical problems

 
Benchmarking & Governance

• System/Product Enterprise wide Architecture design and documentation.
• Technical coordination and negotiation with all internal and external stake holders on new product development, feature request roadmap, bug rating and impact assessment on complete MCA infrastructure were applicable.
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering in web and server domains.
• Research.

 
Qualifications
Essential:

• B.Sc (Electronic and/or Computer Engineering) or similar qualification.

Experience

• Minimum of 8 -10 years’ experience in web software design and development with strong knowledge of at least one structural language (C# or enterprise java), web application servers and one interpreted language (Python, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript)
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a senior/lead C#/enterprise java engineer and or system architect
• Several years of experience in system design
• Experience in developing web applications using HTML5, AJAX, CSS and SQL
• Mentorship
• Experience in working with offshore teams
• Proven experience with leading the architecture of systems in production
• Excellent knowledge of UML and other modeling methods
• Understanding of software quality assurance principles
• A technical mindset with great attention to detail
• High quality organizational and leadership skills
• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities

 
Technical Competencies 

• Expert knowledge of object orientated principles, design patterns, GoF, web API’s, web sockets
• Expert knowledge of IIS, nGinX, Apache webservers
• Expert knowledge of restFUL webservices
• Expert knowledge of microservice architecture and service orientated architecture
• Expert knowledge in at least 1 cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, BlueMix)
• Advanced understanding of design, implementation and operation of distributed services and APIs
• Strong knowledge of Big Data and NoSQL databases
• Strong knowledge of MQTT
• Strong knowledge of web infrastructure
• Strong knowledge with cloud native architecture
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and web application servers
• Strong knowledge of the software development process  with a passion for agile, product discovery and CI/CD
• Strong understanding of IP networking and protocols eg HTTP, FTP, WS, FTP, UDP
• Solid experience creating and maintaining detailed application/system documentation
• Solid experience HTML/CSS/Angular/JS/NodeJS and UI/UX design
• High aspiration for quality balanced with a good sense of pragmatism
• You understand quality assurance as a task of the entire team to build the best experience to the users
• Independently and quick adoption of new technologies and concepts
• Willingness to speak at conferences and engage in the community are a strong plus
• Effective oral and written English communication skills

Behavioral Competencies 

• Relationship Building
• Conflict Resolution
• Decision Making
• Critical Appraisal
• Holistic Thinking
• Persuading & Influence
• Coachin