*instinctools is looking for a Technical Architect

Our Client is one of the TOP-3 global management consulting firms considered to be among the most prestigious ones in the world. Hundreds of customers from Fortune-500, including the largest global financial institutions, the world’s top media companies, technology companies and federal government agencies rely on our Client’s proven platform and services.

You will have responsibilities that range from shaping and implementing strategic products to ensuring that our client stays on the leading edge of technology

What exactly will you do?
Understand the business needs and objectives of our customer and its clients and identify the strategy for technology solutions aligning with above goals.
Leverage expertise to influence solution strategy and roadmap.
Design and develop technical architecture for new or existing systems, select appropriate technologies, including software and cloud components.
Identify and evaluate new and emerging technologies that can be leveraged to improve technology infrastructure, assets and resources and provide robust recommendations for component selection and topology patterns.
Conduct feasibility studies, identifying potential risks, and providing technical guidance and mentorship to the development team.
Get involved in shaping the technology behind the products of our client. Your expertise will expand into Cloud technologies, DevOps and Continuous Delivery domains.
Be an active learner, identifying new or better ways to deliver impact with people and technology.
Develop a growth mindset and relish opportunities to use familiar and unfamiliar technologies, closed-source and open-source software, and develop better approaches to solving business and technical challenges.
Embrace agile software development practices, guide the CI/CD process and contribute to growing and improving the engineering organization of our client.
Prototype code and participate in code reviews, facilitate breaking down user stories into technical tasks, and help manage the process by which code is delivered and its quality.
Lead the adoption of technical standards and best practices to grow high performing teams.
Identify and escalate barriers, dependencies and risks and collaborate with business stakeholders to mitigate the risks.
Our expectations of the ideal candidate:
Essential

Deep understanding of the architectural concepts governing the design of highly scalable and reliable data-driven applications for cloud environments and using cloud-based services and products
Experience in engineering best practices such as: code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, test driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security and accessibility
7+ years of demonstrated hands-on experience and familiarity with the following: JavaScript (particularly Node.js and React), Python, Restful APIs writing/using, databases (SQL, NoSQL, cloud-native databases)
Cloud computing knowledge on the major industry players, particularly Microsoft Azure platform, architecture and tools (Azure App Service including Azure Functions, Azure Blob Storage including Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2)
Very strong command of the English language (both verbal and written)
Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and leadership skills. Experience working collaboratively and effectively in a team environment with technical and non-technical team members and stakeholders at all levels in an organization
Desirable

Some experience with container orchestration and technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Cloud Kubernetes
Solutions and the Data Lake will utilize ML and AI capabilities, therefore some experience in this area would be beneficial
We offer:
-flexible working time
-professional and ambitious team
-transparent system of professional and career development
-a pleasant financial motivation depending on goals
-learning opportunities, seminars and conferences and time for exploring new technologies
-the opportunity to realize your potential outside the projects: we arrange meetups and conferences where our staff can perform, develop professional communities
-full remote work
-partial compensation of medical insurance (Luxmed) and multisport card
-co-funding for language courses (Polish and English)