Solution Architect/ Senior Technical Manager (Ref 26640)

Responsibilities

• Architectural Governance & Innovation: Own the technical blueprint, application integrity, and continuous innovation of the core system, including its cross-platform web and mobile applications and modular microservices ecosystem.

• System Design & Capability Mapping: Oversee the translation of diverse IoT, IT, and operational workflows into real-time analytical and operational capabilities within the unified engine.

• Technical Team Management: Lead, mentor, and resource a multi-disciplinary team of software architects, mobile developers, and full-stack engineering leads, driving high coding standards, agile delivery, and optimal system performance.

• Customer & Stakeholder Alignment: Lead high-level technical consultations with client-side enterprise architects and executives to justify system architecture choices, secure engineering sign-offs, and define data-utilization paradigms.

• Vendor Capability Management: Drive alignment with existing system maintenance vendors, auditing their application frameworks and API scopes to establish clean data exchange structures.

• Design & Roadmap Documentation: Formulate, review, and maintain high-level design (HLD) architecture diagrams, component specifications, and comprehensive data-flow maps.

• System and Functional Testing Oversight: Strategize, govern, and validate rigorous system-level, end-to-end (E2E), and user acceptance testing (UAT) frameworks across web and mobile deployments alongside clients, vendors, and internal project delivery teams.

• Global Mobility & Deployment: Travel and undertake short to mid-term overseas deployments as required to directly lead and support international system rollouts and client site commissioning.

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

Experience & Core Enterprise Expertise:

• 8-12 years of professional experience in enterprise software architecture, core backend engineering, or distributed application development.

• At least 3 years in a technical management or software engineering leadership capacity.

• Strong technical and software architecture skills with a proven track record in end-to-end application mapping.

• Proven experience designing real-time command & control systems that seamlessly unify urban planning, operations monitoring, real-time incident detection, automated incident management workflows, and performance reporting into a single, cohesive engine.

• Deep experience in the architectural implementation of microservice-based command & control solutions.

Specialized Domains:

• Highly proficient in AI-related technologies (supporting advanced predictive urban operations).

• Highly proficient in GIS technologies for spatial analysis and geographic visualization.

• Practical understanding or experience in mobile application development frameworks (e.g., React Native, Flutter, Swift, or Kotlin) to drive real-time operational alerts and field-engineer workflows.

• Professional exposure or proficiency in 3D solutions is a strong asset / good to have.

Methodologies & Modern Delivery:

• Highly familiar with Agile methodologies & tools (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence) to govern sprint planning and execution.

• Highly familiar with utilizing DevOps tools and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines (CI/CD frameworks) to streamline release cycles across web and mobile environments.

• Core Technical Stack: Deep architectural and hands-on experience with modern full-stack web environments (JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, Node.js).

• Infrastructure & Orchestration: Proven experience designing and managing cloud-native production environments utilizing Kubernetes.

• Distributed Messaging & Enterprise Middleware: Advanced mastery of high-throughput messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, JMS, AMQP) and event-driven architectures.

• Data Integration & Protocol Frameworks: Broad understanding of data exchange and communication structures across IT, IoT, and OT layers (e.g., MQTT, CoAP, HTTP/HTTPS, WebSockets, Modbus, BACnet, OPC UA).

• Databases: Expert knowledge of enterprise-grade relational and non-relational database design and optimization using MSSQL and Postgres.

• Soft Skills: Outstanding engineering leadership, decisive crisis-management and problem-solving skills under high pressure, advanced stakeholder negotiation, and exceptional cross-functional communication.

Licence no: 12C6060