Expert Architect - España - Vonage

Descripción

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
• 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

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.

At Vonage, we celebrate diversity, as it is in the best interest of our employees, customers, and community to do so Vonage is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for all, including equivalent pay, and will not discriminate against an applicant or an employee based on gender/gender identity, race, color, ancestry/ethnicity, religion/conviction of belief, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, age, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status, political beliefs, family status and any other category protected by applicable law. If you would like to see a copy of our EEO policy, or if you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by emailing .