Business Architect, Part-Time Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Guatemala.

📋 Description

• Facilitate discovery sessions to translate business requirements into architectural proposals, non-functional specifications, and technical roadmaps.

• Develop solutions for high-volume data and media workloads, focusing on scalability, resilience, storage solutions, and cost-effectiveness.

• Evaluate the existing technology landscape and recommend modernization strategies addressing risks such as end-of-support issues, capacity challenges, and security concerns.

• Analyze various options and substantiate decisions and budgets with clear trade-offs and thorough analysis.

• Create and maintain architecture documentation, including solution diagrams, architecture decision records, technical specifications, and disaster recovery plans.

• Collaborate with release and quality assurance processes, including the risk classification of changes, rollback and backup strategies, and change approvals.

• Engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in both Spanish and English.

• Disseminate project knowledge throughout the team.

• Recognize opportunities for process improvement and develop new business opportunities aligned with organizational objectives.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline is preferred, or equivalent professional experience.

• Over 5 years of practical software development experience.

• At least 2 years in a technical leadership role or as a solution architect.

• Experience in backend architecture with .NET or a comparable enterprise technology stack.

• Familiarity with cloud architecture on Azure, including app services, databases, data pipelines, networking, and security measures.

• Knowledge of distributed and service-oriented architectures, APIs, integrations, and messaging systems.

• Understanding of data architecture, relational databases, performance optimization, archiving, and data retention strategies.

• Proficiency with CI/CD and code quality practices, including tools like Azure DevOps or Jenkins and static analysis techniques.

• Awareness of Agile methodologies, software testing strategies, and software development and design paradigms.

• Capability to document architecture using solution diagrams, ADRs, and technical specifications, including disaster recovery strategies.

• Skill in justifying decisions and budgets to clients.

• Strong persuasive communication abilities for engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Excellent analytical skills with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating technology risks.

• Proficiency in both Spanish and English for effective communication.

🏝️ Benefits

• Part-time contractor model (22 hours per week) for an initial duration of 3 months, with the potential for extension.