Software Architect

1 week ago

Durban, South Africa Be Different Recruitment Full time

KwaZulu Natal, Durban
- (Market related)

Our client leading software development house in the online gaming world is urgently looking for a Software Architect to provide the technical creativity and structure needed to solve a sizeable software problem.

The architect would conceive the system and provide technical leadership necessary to build it, addressing concerns such as performance, cost, compliance, availability, localization, multi-platform and more.

**Perform Project Design**

**Typical activities**:

- Need to figure out a high level plan for delivering the project
- Need to figure out what tasks need to be done
- Need to figure out dependencies and priority
- Need to figure out who is best suited to tackle each task
- Often need to write a project charter

**Set Standards**

**Typical activities**:

- Need to figure out the standards and tools in these areas:

- Documentation
- Task tracking
- Requirements management
- Version control
- Builds
- Source code formatting
- Code reviews
- Code coverage
- Unit tests
- Integration tests
- Packaging
- Deployment
- Monitoring
- You should be as collaborative as possible; e.g. coming up with code formatting standards together
- For each tool in the chain, you need to be comfortable with its use; you should know where its responsibilities begin and end and how to troubleshoot it

**Do the Analysis**

**Typical activities**:

- Need to figure out the functional requirements (I want red buttons) and non-functional requirements (obviously it needs to scale to a million users)
- Need to organise, refine and categorise the requirements and be able to spot a bad requirement or a solution masquerading as a requirement
- Need to consider the different consumers of the product and discover their needs
- Need to lead the charge on actually capturing and managing the requirements content so that it's clear to the rest of the team how it should be done

**Design the Solution**

**Typical activities**:

- Need to produce designs which show "good taste"; they have a certain elegance where things are as simple as they can be, but not simpler
- Need to conceive the major parts of the system in a way which respects the volatilities at play (those things which are likely to change)
- Need to figure out the key interfaces between the different parts of the system; how they consume each other and what key data will be interchanged
- Need to make appropriate decisions on key technologies for each major moving part e.g.
- A UDP stream for data where having it quickly is more important than never losing any
- A binary-extensible protocol for a bandwidth sensitive requirement
- An open standard like HTTP where interoperability and tool-friendliness is paramount
- Need to decide the trade-off between the parts of the system that should be built and the parts that should be bought
- For parts which are bought, you'll need to consider costs, permissiveness of licenses, dependencies, vendor lock-in
- Need to throw efficiency considerations at your design; what cost implications does it have for disk space, bandwidth, compute requirements
- Need to review designs done by other members of the team; they need to demonstrate to your satisfaction that their ideas will work
- Need to be aware of the networks that will be traversed by the system and what defences need to be in place for each (e.g. HTTPS, tokens)
- Need to consider what information can be seen by whom and what data should be redacted, encrypted or hashed
- Need to consider how the design fits into the greater software ecosystem and its impact on existing products and technologies, e.g. don't insist on Redis in your solution when Couchbase is already supported in the ecosystem and the differences are mínimal for your use case

**Lead the Construction**

**Typical activities**:

- Often need to lead (i.e. actually write) the implementation of, at a minimum, some of the core pieces of the system
- It puts down in practical form your expectations for the other developers
- It forces you to confront first hand where your design is wrong
- Need to be available at any moment to assist developers with any technical question they may have at any level of detail
- Need to be able to jump into a part of the system which is not really your core competency but nonetheless quickly grasp the essentials of a problem
- Need to participate in all significant code reviews, providing teaching and insight and staying in touch with code base as it evolves
- Need to be ruthless on shoddy code otherwise things quickly turn to mush
- Need to be sensitive to "smells"; where things are just not fitting together well and act to redress them before it is too late
- Often need to lead the implementation of the unit tests and integration tests so that people can see the standard you expect
- Need to establish the development and testing environment and know the technical details of how it is set up
- For cloud environments, you need to know the practic

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