Senior Software Architect

Software Architect Job Opportunity

We are seeking a skilled Senior Software Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development and architecture.

1. The successful candidate will be responsible for porting/migrating an existing web application to current industry standards, including design, development, support, modification/changes and documentation. This will also involve exporting all data from the old application to the new one.
2. Designing and developing accompanying mobile applications to the web application is another key responsibility of this role. The architect will decide whether to adopt a cross-platform approach or develop native platform-specific applications.
3. The architect will need to develop detailed software design and document requirements, including conducting a System Requirements Analysis (SRA).
4. This role involves developing code with unit tests and conducting requirements testing.
5. The successful candidate will deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, bugfix and provide support for the web and mobile applications.
6. Technical documentation of technical specifications, outlining variables, functions and methods used, including an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) specifying database relations and a step-by-step explanation of the code, is also required.
7. Coordination with higher management, including logging project information daily and filing reports, as well as being on-call for any consultation, is essential for this role.
8. Developing comprehensive end-user documentation and training materials, including screencast/screen-recorded step-by-step tutorials, is also necessary.

The ideal candidate should possess the following qualifications:

1. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a relevant field, with a mastery of programming, UI/UX design, customization of software and relevant skills. Experienced candidates without a degree may be considered.
2. At least 8 years of experience in software development in a particular technology stack, with at least 3+ years of experience as a software architect/manager/team lead.
3. Excellent development and architecture skills with a solid grasp of web development.
4. An excellent grasp over various internet technologies and tools.
5. Experience in databases, database design, database optimization and creating/maintaining ERDs.
6. Extensive experience developing on a single stack and deployment environment. Experience with deploying applications in the cloud (e.g. Amazon EC2 or Azure) will be a plus.
7. Knowledge of object-oriented programming and software development life cycle best practices, as well as extensive analytical and troubleshooting skills, and familiarity with Agile and SCRUM.
8. Familiar with dependency/package managers, templating engines and ORM (as used by Laravel). Experience with third-part ORM and templating engines may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
9. Experienced in the MVC architectural pattern (or any derivative thereof).
10. Familiar with software testing, particularly unit testing (e.g. PHPUnit).
11. Familiar with version control/source control systems (e.g. Git, Svn, TFS etc) and platforms (Github, Visual Studio Online, Bitbucket etc).
12. Familiar with bugtrackers/issue trackers.
13. Solid technical documentation skills.
14. A portfolio of live/demoable applications will be a plus.

Information Technology - Islamabad, Pakistan.