Zurich Kotak - Lead - Digital Architect

Description:

- Lead Architect, Hands on experience on development.
- Impact driven Solution Architect / Application Architect with deep development roots.
- Participate in strategic transformation planning with senior business and technology leaders
- Engage with business stakeholders on digital initiatives and proposed solution architectures.
- Create Solution architecture & high level aligned with business needs and best practices per initiative.
- Communicate and obtain buy-in from Business and IT stakeholders on the strategic direction and engagement on individual projects
- Creation of application technical design documents to guide development / delivery.
- Coach senior developers on tech & design best practices
- Make pragmatic and delivery focused technical decisions.
- Investigate new technologies, platforms and design patterns as applicable to business focus areas.
- Work with IT Vendors, partners and internal delivery teams in ensuring pragmatic project delivery.
What are we looking for ?:

- Ability to understand business requirements in detail.
- Passion for new and emerging technologies. Ability to investigate these in depth and apply them to business opportunities.
- APIs and Microservices design.
- Strong Object-oriented modelling & design skills.
- Knowledge of data modelling / database design concepts
- Good understanding of Java & JavaScript programming. Ability to read and understand code.
- Strong understanding of cloud capabilities for applications (e.g. containers, relational database services). Preferably AWS.
- Broad understanding of DevOps tools.
- Excellent communication & documentation skills.