Ushur’s product development team is looking for an experienced Director of System Architecture to head our System Architecture group that designs the industry’s leading intelligent customer experience automation platform. The role requires the candidate to be an experienced architect with the ability to provide strategic technical direction to the team and organization.

● Oversee the day to day operations of the System Architecture team

● Overview of the product architecture and technical leadership

● Actively seek, evaluate, and influence architecture decisions and technology roadmap.

● Prioritize work for the team and help build consensus within the team

● Helping creatively solve business problems

● Be the face of System Architecture

● Be in touch with current frameworks and be influential in all choices related to backend technology choices

● Contribute to ideation, proposals for secure custom integrations, and customer facing solutions and help with implementation.

● Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to determine best practices and requirements for software

● Lead by example with a strong sense of feature ownership, agility and an urge for continuous learning

● Maintain product architecture documentation, illustrations and guidelines

● 16+ years of professional experience with 5+ years in a leadership role in software architecture in product companies

● Hands on implementation experience

● Experience in managing teams of highly skilled and experienced individuals who are experts in their areas

● Experience with more than one programming language like Java, NodeJS with backend and frontend frameworks is required

● Experience in designing low-latency and highly scalable backend infrastructure

● Experience with designing systems with Kubernetes or other open source container orchestration system

● Strong programming skills in designing and implementing multi-tier applications

● RESTful API & micro-service design and development, event-driven architecture experience

● Proficiency working in Linux environment

● Strong Software development fundamentals, architecture styles and patterns, problem solving skills and engineering best practices

● Good understanding and experience with web applications, cyber security and open source technologies

● Exposure to vulnerability and penetration testing

● Excellent verbal and written communication, strong organizational skills and attention to detail

● Experience with creating architectural diagrams and design documentation using UML

● Experience overseeing product development with multiple projects ongoing simultaneously

● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB is required

● Experience building AI solutions

● Awareness of tools and techniques to achieve network security, data protection and business continuity

● A postgraduate or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or software systems

● Professional programs certification in Java and others is preferred

● Exposure to AWS/Azure/GCP environment

● Familiarity with YAML/Swagger

● A good sense of user experience