Business Architect – Part-Time Contract

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

📋 Description

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

• Create solutions for high-volume data and media tasks, focusing on scalability, resilience, storage, and cost efficiency.

• Analyze the existing technology landscape and recommend modernization strategies for systems nearing end-of-support, as well as addressing capacity and security concerns.

• Assess various alternatives and substantiate decisions and financial allocations through clear trade-offs and comprehensive analysis.

• Develop and uphold solution diagrams, architecture decision records, technical specifications, and documentation for disaster recovery.

• Collaborate with release and quality assurance processes, which include change-risk classification, rollback and backup strategies, and change approval protocols.

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

• Disseminate project knowledge throughout the team.

• Recognize opportunities for process enhancements and develop new business opportunities that align 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 role focused on technical leadership or solution architecture.

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

• Proficiency in cloud architecture on Azure, encompassing app services, databases, data pipelines, networking, and security measures.

• Familiarity with distributed and service-oriented architectures, APIs, integrations, and messaging systems.

• Knowledge of data architecture, including relational databases, performance optimization, archiving, and data retention.

• Experience with CI/CD and code quality methodologies, utilizing tools such as Azure DevOps or Jenkins and static analysis tools.

• Understanding of Agile methodologies, software testing strategies, and software development/design patterns.

• Capability to document architecture through solution diagrams, ADRs, technical specifications, and disaster recovery documentation.

• Competence in justifying decisions and budgets to clients.

• Strong persuasive communication skills when interacting with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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

• Proficient in communication in both Spanish and English.

• Demonstrated ability to design distributed, service-oriented solutions and effectively justify architectural choices to clients.

🏝️ Benefits

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