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Robert Half Cognos Architect in Arlington, Texas
Description The Application Architect organizes the lifecycle of new development on future and existing products. This includes managing daily product development efforts, designing product architecture, and reviewing product requirements. You will be responsible for translating product specifications into production level applications as well as managing complex interactions between business processes and technologies.
Responsibilities
Create, establish, and sustain technical architecture standards and develop cross-product frameworks and best practices.
Get hands-on with code development for web-based n-tier applications.
Mentor team members to grow abilities and strengthen capabilities.
Own the product development timeline.
Perform other related duties as assigned by management.
Collaborate with the product team to understand requirements and create functionality specifications.
Assist in product release planning and helps assess feature viability/effort.
Supervise the deployment of alpha and beta releases during the stabilization of new product development.
Create, design, and document solutions to product specifications for shared capabilities throughout the architecture.
Mentor developers by providing technical and non-technical help and oversight- Support writing the technical section of functional specifications for new product development.
Define and evolve development standards, guidelines, procedures, processes, and metrics.
Lead code reviews -- identifying best practices and efficiency steps for increased stability and capability. Requirements - 5+ years of experience in team management in a related field.
Expertise in database design.
Capable of creating realistic plans, goals, and aligning plans with company goals, managing resources, and creating contingency plans.
10+ years of experience in application development, software design, and architecture.
Aptness to create, debug, secure, test, and optimize code for multiple web-based applications and services.
Ability and willingness to meet business critical deadlines
Ability to decompose and prioritize components of large systems.
BA/BS in Software Engineering or Computer Science.
Ability to document issues and proposed improvements while evaluating an existing architecture
Understanding of common software development languages is preferred.
Desire to learn new technologies related to the Web and application development.
Experience in a consulting environment with business analysis, data management, system architecture, and distributed technologies.
Demonstrated capability to lead small teams and work independently.
Skilled in threading, asynchronous event handling, data binding, scripting and query languages/tools.
Presentation experience, and excellent oral and written communication skills. Technology Doesn't Change the World, People Do.®
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