Senior Software Architect

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Senior Software Architect to join our client in Chicago, IL.

We intelligently connect energy systems, buildings, and industries. We help our customers to thrive, communities to progress, and support sustainable development to protect our planet for the next generation. Join our team of about 380 000 colleagues around the globe and help us create environments that care.

We are primed for future growth, redefining Smart Buildings, and bringing game-changing IoT software technology into buildings. We are looking for the brightest minds to help drive that transformation. Our IoT platform for smart buildings with groundbreaking cloud applications collects data in real-time and we are building exciting use cases for our clients as part of our newly formed Digital Buildings IoT software team.

About The Role: 

The SSWA drives and guides the specification and implementation of a software (SW) architecture for a project with a high business impact on a business unit or division, e.g., an architecture for a SW product line, a large SW integration project, or a high-risk SW project. He/she ensures the sustainability and integrity of his/her architecture vision over all its domain and technical aspects over the product's entire lifetime. His/her decisions are driven by a clear focus on the intended business and its associated requirements. The SSWA is guided by maturity, vision, depth of domain and technical experience and the ability to identify, analyze, and decide on relevant issues in time and with courage, even without complete information. The SSWA leads, guides, coaches, and motivates the architects and developers in his/her team over the entire lifetime of a project to enable, support, and enforce an appropriate implementation, quality assurance, test, maintenance, and evolution of the SW architectures, even in the face of challenging, changing, and evolving business cases, requirements, realization technologies, and other forces e.g., strategic changes approaching the project. Before taking important decisions, e.g., regarding the fundamental (technological) vision of an architecture or any aspects that are costly to change, he/she involves the relevant senior, project, and product managers in the decision-making process.

We value diversity of thought, by asking tough questions and committing ourselves to solutions - we perform best when we consider different opinions and backgrounds. Join our newly created team to develop the solutions of tomorrow!

Specifically, You Will Be Responsible For:

• Product ownership, support of product management, and bridging the gaps between product management and technical teams.
• Determine the (SW) technology roadmap for (SW) products & platforms
• Scan for innovations and relevant technologies; assessment of their feasibility
• Derive SW (platform) requirements
• Define external SW interfaces
• Adjust SW requirements with the long-term product line vision
• Prove (SW) feasibility, especially regarding the platform
• Define SW platform- / product line- architecture
• Assess SW architecture, especially against platform requirements
• Define architecture and design principles, especially for platform use
• Establish platform traceability
• Identification and specification of interfaces
• Continuous architecture management, monitoring of internal software quality and structural change
• Drive the architecture process and define and enforce development guidelines
• Define the development toolchain and landscape
• Drive a strategy for handling open source
• Mentor SW Architects
• Control platform integration
• Define SW platform integration concept
• Identify and prevent general architecture quality issues

Required Education/Experience:

• Degree in Computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field
• Has a minimum of 10+ years of experience in successfully working as an architect in product development. 
• International work experience and global development.
• SW Design Methods, e.g. OOA/OOD/UML, Design Patterns, refactoring/rewriting/reengineering (expert).
• Reuse strategies, incl. communality/variability analysis and business case estimation
• (expert)
• Software coding languages, technologies and tools (advanced-expert), C/C++ is a must.
• SW test design, selection and automation methods (advanced).
• Configuration and Change Request Management (advanced).
• Estimation and prioritization methods (advanced-expert).
• Lean & Agile SW development (advanced)
• Architectural governance and Guidance (expert)
• Standards, Regulations, Legal issues (advanced)
• Leadership (advanced)
• Social Skills (advanced)
• You are highly accomplished at communicating across all levels of an organization to both technical and executive audiences, whether spontaneously on a whiteboard or using presentations and demonstrations.

Blackstone Talent Group is a division of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and solutions firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone’s global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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