Position title:

FullStack Architect (Manager Technology)

Department:

Enterprise Applications Services

Location:

Position has a global remit

Reports to (role):

Director Technology

Main purpose:

• Be the direct contact for internal clients for all technical aspects during the initial engagement and kick-off stages of application development projects. Have the ability to drive high level solution architecture design (conceptual, logical, physical)
• Support the project team for all infrastructure related issues, including Agile tools and Source Control.
• Provide knowledge on full-scale continuous delivery process & solutions and understand continuous integration and automated tests (unit, front-end, load) frameworks, scripts and other artefacts created by engineers and be able to support the systems evolution as and when necessary.
• Be responsible for the setup, continuous maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting of development/ testing/ staging and production environments across internal clients accounts in collaboration with the technology team.

Dimensions:

Employees managed:

Direct:  0

Indirect: 0

Key accountabilities:

The key accountabilities for this role are, but not limited to;

• Architect, design, and implement large scale and enterprise-grade Custom solutions
• Assess, estimate, and support opportunities or business development in our clients
• Sprint planning, Product Demonstrations
• The technical team is appropriately mentored.
• The deliverables for each Sprint are clearly understood by the Agile Team(s).
• Ensure that the Agile team(s) delivers working software of sufficient quality to deliver to clients at the end of each development sprint.
• Provide Risk Management for all technical risks
• The Agile Requirements Repository is properly administered.
• Source Control repositories are appropriately managed
• The Agile team receives sufficient resourcing to be able to complete its objectives.

Specific responsibilities:

• Write maintainable and effective code base
• Follow best practices for test driven environment, continuous integration.
• Design, develop, test and implement end-to-end requirement
• Contribute on all phases of development life cycle
• Perform unit testing and troubleshooting applications

Business Compliance

Ensure a sound understanding of, demonstrate commitment to and comply with all legislation & Publicis Groupe Policies e.g., Janus, GSO and IT policies, etc.

Personal & Team Accountabilities

Actively develop and maintain strong working relationships with all Re:Sources personnel both at a interpersonal level and across all business processes within the wider business environment.

Actively maintain communication and behaviour standards that foster a culture of strong customer and service excellence both within Re:Sources and across all customer and supplier organisations.

Key relationships

(internal &/or external):

Re:Sources Teams, particularly Business Improvement and IT

Agile Development Teams

External System Suppliers

Key

competencies:

Experience/Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related field from an accredited college or university; Master's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred

Knowledge

• Facilitation of requirements analysis meetings
• Agile techniques and methodologies
• Knowledge of Agile lifecycle management repositories

Skills (must have)

• Hands on exp in one or more programming language/development platforms such as NodeJS(mandatory, 5+ years)
• Hands on experience in one or more programming language/development platforms such as ReactJS(mandatory, 5+ years, Hooks, Promises
• Good experience in web services and micro-services architecture
• Hands on exp in writing RESTful apis, auth/authorization, security of apis, versioning
• Experience in cloud architecture Azure would be preferred, optional AWS etc.
• Experience in Graph databases like Neo4J, Orient DB etc. 
• Experience in RDBMS databases like SQL Server, etc. 
• Good understanding of design patterns, architectural methodologies (3 tier, micro-service, MVC)
• Experience in Agile and DevOps practices and tools such as Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, SonarQube, etc.
• Good understanding of Ajax, CORS, api integration, HTML5/CSS3
• Exp in JS unit testing framework like JEST/Mocha, Chai
• Working exp of application scaling like horizontal/vertical
• Debugging complex scenarios and find out RCA

Skills (good to have)

• Experience in ETL tools like Apache HOP, Azure Event Hub etc
• Elastic search exp is plus
• Working knowledge of GraphQL is plus
• Any APM tool like Dynatrace or NewRelic exp is plus
• Experience in unit testing and automation frameworks like Selenium, Jmeter etc.
• Experience in mobile application development platforms/technologies such as Native Android, optional on React Native, ReactJS, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS, etc

Attributes/behaviours

• Ability to design, develop, implement complex requirement.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code

• Pro-active support to the business is a key attribute for this role with a customer service focus to link both systems requirements with business outcomes.

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