The Role

As a Quality Architect at MicroStrategy, you will have recent hands-on experience in defining and deploying enterprise software applications in an agile development environment. The primary objective of a Quality Architect is to help to drive definition of the optimal technology stack for MicroStrategy.

Your Focus

· Express your visionary skills and experiences as a software development and systems architect by ensuring the flow of development process is aligned with the overall architectural runway of the entire technology modernization effort.

· Take ownership of cross-team issues and product delivery issues including pro-actively communicating across teams to coordinate activities.

· Utilize your innovation and affinity for research, learning, and practical technical decision making as you provide oversight and technical design requirement advice to complex solutions.

· Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility.

· In this role, you will be THE technical leader while also being hands-on from start to finish as it relates to all aspects of the project: prototyping, proof of concepts, technical road mapping, participating in stand-ups and sprints, and providing ongoing technical mentorship and skill development.

· Design and build scalable software systems in a high-availability, high-performance programming environment.

· Collaborate with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements for software products and features.

· Decide on technical and architectural directions of software development that aligns with the unified vision of MicroStrategy technology.

· Create architectural approaches for software design using cutting edge technologies that meet all requirements of functionality, quality, security, and performance.

· Effectively communicate the concepts, architectures, designs, and guidelines to product management, product owners, and development teams.

· Guide the development teams on the development process and lead the design and code review to ensure consistency with the design and quality of the implementation.

· Provide technical leadership and mentor team members on best practices in software design, development, and processes.

· Work in an agile environment with participation in daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies with iterative development.

· Build and grow a culture of engineering and coding excellence by example.

Required Experience and Skills

Motivation, Innovation, Passion, Integrity, Teamwork, Customer-Focus

You should also bring the following:

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant fields. MS preferred

· Minimum 6 years’ hands-on development experience and 2+ years in leading design and implementation of enterprise software products

· Excellent knowledge and experience of software and application design and development; experience building enterprise-scale analytic applications a plus

· Excellent knowledge and experience of modern distributed computing, cloud computing, enterprise data, security, and/or service-oriented architectures

· Proficient in one or more object-oriented programming or scripting languages, including, but not limited to C++, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, Swift, Scala, Python, Perl

· Experience of modern open-source technology stacks and frameworks, including, but not limited to Spark, Consul, Zookeeper, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, Lucene, ElasticSearch, Docker, Node.js, Spring

· Experience of cloud computing technology and infrastructure, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure

· Experience of modern development, collaboration, testing, and continuous integration toolsets, including, but not limited to Jira, Confluence, Rally, GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, ANT, Make, JUnit, JMock

· Strong analytical skills and creative thinking to develop innovative solutions

· Strong desire to learn new concepts and technologies

· Strong people skills to interact effectively with teams at all levels

· Experience of Agile software development process

  Fluent English required

- Only resumes in English will be accepted

- Candidate needs to be eligible to work in Argentina