The Platform Architect designs and delivers digital experience platforms, advises clients on architecture, leads engineering teams, and ensures project delivery standards are met.
This is a remote position.
Position Overview
We are looking for an experienced technical leader to help us successfully design and
deliver best-in-class digital experience platform builds for our clients. The Platform
Architect is a hybrid role, expected to advise clients on best practice architecture
decisions and lead back-end Engineering teams on coding and quality standards. You
will partner closely with leads across Strategy, Product, Quality and Delivery to ensure
on-schedule and on-budget delivery of initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Consult clients on platform architecture, patterns, and practices
Lead discussions with clients to assist with gathering project requirements
Establish platform architecture and code organization for client applications
Partner with project managers to ensure teams meet client and project
commitments
Lead development teams on client projects, ensuring teams meet sprint
commitments
Convert client user stories to developer-ready tasks
Collaborate on- and off-project with domestic and offshore team members
Set standards for platform coding patterns and practices
Proactively enable team members to develop secure applications
Serve as a mentor and coach to less senior team members
Requirements
Critical Competencies
Enterprise platform architecture and development for Content Management
Systems (Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) preferred)
3 rd party data and content integrations, including user-generated content (UGC)
Single Sign-On (SSO) integration and user login (both internal and end users)
Project build tools and CI pipelines to optimize development and deployment
OWASP common security vulnerabilities and how to mitigate
Ability to provide estimates with varying levels of ambiguity
Energy and enthusiasm to create value, internally and for clients
Qualifications
7+ years in software engineering with proven success in a leadership role
Experience in a client-facing role, consulting preferred
Comfortable working in an iterative, agile environment
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