Digital Architect
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KEY EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
Mastering Lean & Agile methods, leading quality and security (SecByD) rules and state of the art of DevOps practices, contributing to and challenging the vision with architects and/or business counterpart:
Functional and/or Technical specifications are mastered to cover the right level of business needs:
The business needs are analysed and converted into functional and/or technical specifications taking into account market watch. A great User Interface (UI)/ User eXperience (UX) is provided by working closely with the business partners or UX/UI experts.
Software, creating business value, is developed and maintained:
The beautiful*, clean** and complex code is collectively written (peer-programming) and challenged. Testings and debugging are led. The softwares are maintained and improved. Technical support by diagnosing and solving complex incidents is insured. Complex technical questions are answered. Operability and user acceptance are overseen. Major changes to existing applications are implemented. The associated documentation is carried out. Standards design and guidelines are developed. The global solution is validated including architecture scenarii.
Controls and tests are supervised and optimized:
Unit tests and unit plans are supervised, optimized, ensuring quality, security and consistency. Complex malfunctions, incidents and bugs are managed, understood, analyzed, reported and solved.
The solution is deployed and operated:
He/she leads change management, communication and training. He/she may train users, deployers and support teams.
He/she builds an automate and optimized deployment.
He/she supports the solution (especially in product mode)
Mentoring and consulting are provided:
Tutors and mentors developers. Internal and external best practices are shared among the team members. Processes and ways of working are improved.
* Beautiful code is showable, useful, generic, sustainable (ease of maintenance, scalable, reusable), shareable, elegant (code as essay, "bookish", minimal), pleasurable, efficient, concise, readable.
** Clean code uses writing standards (names (search), functions (short), ...), code patterns (architecture/design at all scale) and practices (testing & refactoring) and uses code discipline (SOLID, DRY, YAGNI, TDD, ...).