Software Architect

Role Description and Mission

The Software Architect is a key member of a team that functions as the vanguard of innovation for the business. Responsible for defining, designing, developing, validating, and delivering the first instances of new technology-enabled capabilities. Support new capabilities through early adopter customer use. Accomplish effective transition to other technical and operational groups as capabilities and markets mature. Both qualify and utilize emerging technologies, yet overcome their limitations. Work on software technologies and solutions which are the fundamental blocks on which computer applications and telecommunications networks are built. Develop coherent, concise, accurate and clear to the customer, marketing, and other development models.

Key Outcomes

• Provide solutions, architecture and technical guidance to distributed and complex software and hardware problems.
• Conduct research, analyze, determine the structure, design, build, test, implement or maintain such software.
• Provide a comprehensive architecture design to a problem that meets current needs and adapts to future needs.
• Ask questions and dig into assumptions to clarify requirements, avoid ambiguities, and target the underlying problems to be solved.
• Produce detailed functional and technical documentation to effectively communicate intent to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Design software systems to be extensible and maintainable.
• Design and test prototypes, proofs-of-technology and proofs-of-concept.
• Adapt to fill Subject Matter Expert roles within the technical organization.