Expert Architect

About the job

Vonage is looking for a talented and experienced technical and enterprise architect. You will join a growing architecture team within Vonage’s communications platform. You will lead the architecture initiative for one of Vonage’s highest-profile and key strategic projects.

You will also work directly with engineering teams enabling them to deliver software more effectively. You will be a member of the API Group’s architecture advisory group.

Finally you will be a key advisor to the Director of Engineering being an important bridge between them and the engineering teams.

What You’re Great At

• Independently tackling challenges: You don’t need anyone to keep you on track.

• You’re organized and efficient

• Articulate complex problems simply

• A strategic thinker - able to understand and develop where we are where we want to get to and how we can get there

• Strong soft skills & ability to work with and influence multiple teams.

• Flexibility and adaptability to work in a growing dynamic team

What You Must Have Experience In

• 10+ years in software development

What You’re Good At

• Although your focus will be on a key project you can organise yourself effectively to work cross department

• Energy curiosity and a desire to learn and improve.

• Finding pragmatic solutions to complex socio-technological problems.

What technical skills are a must

• At least one of Java Golang Kotlin Python or a similar programming language

• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferable)

• Mapping of platform architectures

• System design

• Strong understanding of security best practices

What technical skills are nice to have but not essential

• Kubernetes or a similar container orchestrator

• Kafka or similar event bus technology

• Database architecture

Qualities About You That Might Make Our Decision Easier

• Experience operating in a similar technical lead role.

• Seeing the bigger picture and grasping the full scope of the business.

• Be a strong advocate for DevOps agile and lean software development practices.

• A drive to always leave things better than how you found them: Code processes documentation interactions with people and every other aspect of your work life.

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