As Product Architect, you will lead the design effort on a variety of projects in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment. Your role is to design innovative solutions to real market problems. You will work closely with product managers, technical architects, and software engineers to develop new product offerings and improve existing ones. You will author functional and design specifications, provide technology leadership and ensure adherence to design standards and governance processes. The role drives business value through architectural innovation such as simplification, extensibility, supportability. Requires deep technical expertise, the ability to assess the impact of new technology trends in the area of responsibility, and a broad perspective of the business, customers and customer solutions. The successful candidate will have strong written and verbal communication skills and have ability to work collaboratively in a team environment. The candidate will also generate briefings and present material clearly to team members, customers, and management. This position reports to the Director of Product Development.
Responsibilities:
Drive the architecture of a project/product line, including authoring functional and design specifications, scalability, security, data flow, and interface.
Contribution to the strategic vision of BMC project/product line.
Identify impact of new technologies on BMC products and communicated to development teams.
Partner with customers/prospects on product functionality and future direction; participate in industry briefings.
Consider customer impact; when considering alternatives, evaluate whether something we are asking the customer to do would be reasonable. Attitude of quality, diligence and thoroughness.
Conduct architectural and design reviews.
Evaluate new technologies/innovations and industry trends.
Intentionally drives business value through architectural innovation.
Mentor/provide technical guidance to the development team.
Required Skills:
- - Experience with the full software development lifecycle for Medium-Large software projects particularly adding features, releasing, and maintenance/support
- Experience with User Interface development
- Comfortable with development in Linux and Windows environment
- Ability to work on complex problems and provide innovative solutions
- Experience with networking and virtualization
- Effective communications (i.e. Oral, Written & Listening skills)
- Work effectively and collaboratively with team members, and leads of other teams.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in software development in Java/C++ or equivalent.
- - Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or related field
- At least 8+ years of experience leading large design efforts
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent user interaction design skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Ability to communicate design rationale and build consensus
- Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to develop new approaches to complex design problems
- Must be organized, have an eye for detail, and be able to put ideas into a tangible form
- Experience in PaaS like openShift, mesosphere, DEIS.
- Experience with one or more of JavaScript, Python, HTML5, AJAX, DJANGO – good to have
- Experience with OpenStack, CloudStack, or similar
- Experience developing REST based web services
- Experience using Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Test Automation
- Ability to work with remote teams