Ivy Mobility - Director - Enterprise Architecture

Role & responsibilities : We are looking for an Enterprise Architect - Director to join our core product development team reporting directly to the CTO. As an Enterprise Architect at IvyMobility you will be responsible for designing processes, enforcing relevant architectural patterns, planning/optimizing the IT infrastructure, optimizing business operations by leveraging the right technology toolset and to drive technology initiatives including CTO backlog items.Enterprise Architect responsibilities include improving current IT infrastructure, optimizing business operations for efficiency with an emphasis on knowledge sharing among partners. Ultimately, you will work with a team of IT professionals to oversee our IT infrastructure and help direct our enterprise architecture models.Responsibilities : - Drive innovations and product improvements by identifying areas of opportunity for technical improvements in the product stack.- Actively contribute to the grooming and implementation of CTO backlog items to make the product more robust, self-healing and futuristic.- Provide business architecture and systems processing guidance.- Involve proactively with various teams across the organization to solve problems faced by the teams or by our customers.- Able to analyze the product usage data from LIVE environments to identify strategies that can optimize operational costs and improve application maintainability.- Identify bottlenecks in applications and devise solutions to ensure the best possible performance, quality, scalability, security and responsiveness of the applications.- Suggesting ideas to reduce costs in IT and business leadership.- Providing business architecture and systems processing guidance.- Ensuring the efficiency, security, and support of the organization's goals.- Creating methods for compliance architecture, such as data storage, metadata management and change control.- Create business architecture models that aligns with the overall product strategies and goals.- Identify ways to increase employee knowledge and skills to support future growth.- Mentor and train the tech lead and architect community with the best practices and technology trends from the global EA community.Experience : - Bachelors degree in information technology is preferred.- 18-22 years of overall work experience including 5+ years as an Enterprise Architect or similar role in a SAAS product development organisation.Preferred candidate profile : - Proficiency in Microsoft .NET Core/Framework as a primary programming skill.- Experience with Python is preferred.- Extensive knowledge of SQL Server or any other relational database management system (RDBMS).- Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure cloud hosting platforms.- Strong background in Metadata Management.- Experience working with complex architectures and microservices frameworks.- Expertise in Elastic search.- Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, and API Gateway.- Experience in modeling and graphical representations.- Full-stack development experience is desirable.- Exposure to both web and mobile technologies.- Hands-on approach with a willingness to dive deep into technical tasks.- Excellent technical, analytical, and project management abilities.- End-to-end knowledge from data architecture to tech architecture to function to processes.- Experience in developing scalable and reliable distributed systems/products.- Ability to drive technology roadmaps and conduct research/POCs for new tools and technology solutions to support product development.- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.- Effective leadership and motivational abilities. (ref:hirist.tech)