Software Architect (Hybrid Working)
SEEK Asia (JobsDB)
- Company Industries：Media/Publishing/Printing
Job Information
- Post Date：2022-08-18
- Location：Quarry Bay
- Employment Type：Full Time, Permanent
- Job Function：Information Technology (IT) Software Development
- Benefits：Education allowance, Five-day work week, Flexible working hours
Job Description
The Role
Experience
At SEEK, the health and safety of our people is our highest priority. For this reason, SEEK has introduced a policy requiring all employees and visitors to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 within our offices, unless a formal medical exemption applies. In addition, all employees attending in-person work related meetings or events outside the office will also need to be fully vaccinated. We have chosen to share this information early in our hiring process, so that candidates can make an informed choice. On this basis, as part of the application process you will be asked to confirm that you have read and understood this policy, and would like to continue with the hiring process. Further details about this policy will be shared during the hiring process, as required.
The Software Architect (SA) is a hands-on technology leadership role. As a senior technology leader, SA’s are accountable for the technical alignment, health, capability, and effectiveness of SEEK’s systems. SAs are active thought and people leaders driving continuous improvement and customer outcomes.
- Reporting to Chief Technology Officer - Asia
- Key stakeholders include:
- Chief Technology Services Officer
- Chief Technology Officer – Engineering
- Chief Product Officers
- Head of Product
- Head of Delivery
- Senior Principal / Principal Developers
- Practice teams & Platform Engineering
- Security teams
- Key accountabilities include:
- Leading SEEK’s technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
- Contributing to organisational design to align our teams to the systems they build.
- Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current SEEK development practices.
- Supporting platform health by ensuring that our systems are reliable, resilient and cost effective.
- Driving a strong customer focus to ensure that we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.
- Growing the architectural capabilities of technical leaders through coaching and mentoring.
Experience
- Leading technical change across multiple teams & disciplines
- Architecting, building and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions
- Building solutions in multiple languages and stacks
- Managing costs on a cloud platform
- Designing service-oriented solutions
- Identifies and harnesses opportunities
- Identifies and mitigates risks
- Focuses on outcomes over output
- Influences and motivates others
- Uses data to drive decision making
- Takes responsibility for systems and teams
- Self-aware and proactive on continuous improvement and continual learning
- Positive attitude and a clear sense of initiative
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
- Breaks problems down, analyses constituent parts, proposes and delivers creative solutions
- Open minded collaborator with a growth mindset
- Clear communicator who is able to manage stakeholder expectations, facilitate groups and resolve conflicts
- Comfortable presenting to a large audience
- Comfortable delivering workshops & training
Technical Skills
- Creates and maintains continuous delivery pipelines using current practices, patterns & tooling
- Designs and develops cloud-native software
- Creates software in at least two modern software development languages
- Uses domain driven design, design patterns and data modelling to build software products
- Uses current technical practices such as writing clean, testable code and pair programming
- Creates software using secure coding practices and mitigates common vulnerabilities
Experience
- Service Reliability Engineering
- Previous experience in transforming legacy datacentre systems into cloud first systems
- Previous experience with companies that create consumer facing products
- Driving transformational change in a technical organisation
- Building platforms and tools to enable product engineering teams
Personal Skills
- Builds trust, safety and inclusion in teams
- Creates software in two of the following languages (C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Scala, Swift, Kotlin)
At SEEK, the health and safety of our people is our highest priority. For this reason, SEEK has introduced a policy requiring all employees and visitors to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 within our offices, unless a formal medical exemption applies. In addition, all employees attending in-person work related meetings or events outside the office will also need to be fully vaccinated. We have chosen to share this information early in our hiring process, so that candidates can make an informed choice. On this basis, as part of the application process you will be asked to confirm that you have read and understood this policy, and would like to continue with the hiring process. Further details about this policy will be shared during the hiring process, as required.
Company Info
About SEEK
SEEK is a diverse group of companies, comprised of a strong portfolio of online employment, educational, commercial and volunteer businesses. SEEK has a global presence (including
Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, South-East Asia, Brazil and Mexico), with exposure to over 2.9 billion people and approximately 27 per cent of global GDP. SEEK makes a positive contribution to people’s lives on a global scale. SEEK is listed on the
Australian Securities Exchange, where it is a top 100 company and has been listed in the Top 20 Most Innovative Companies by Forbes.
SEEK is present in Asia through JobStreet and JobsDB, two leading career platforms, with presence across Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Shenzhen, Singapore, Thailand, and the
Philippines. The business represents strong underlying growth and profitability (being the fastest growing part of SEEK’s portfolio of businesses) and attracts over 400 million visits a year.
A cornerstone of SEEK’s growth since its inception has been the passion of its people, its award-winning culture and our people’s strong commitment to the SEEK values. SEEK provides
a culture of excellence and acceptance and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of its organisation.
‘Our SEEK’
At SEEK our biggest asset is our people, and we are proud of our community of valued, talented and diverse individuals who really know their stuff. Our culture statement, Our
SEEK, is all about what makes SEEK unique and a little bit different. Our SEEK clearly outlines the Principles and the Behaviours of our best people, which include:
- Passion: we are passionate about SEEK, our purpose, our customers and our community
- Team: we care about each other and collaborate to achieve together
- Delivery: we execute with excellence and achieve great results
- Future: we think and act for the long term
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