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Job title : Senior Architect Decoder UI Development
Job Location : Gauteng, Randburg
Deadline : November 22, 2024
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Key Performance Objectives
Operational Delivery:
- Participates in pre-product discussions with stakeholders
- Suggests product requirements for existing technologies
- Contributes to product proposals
- Writes and maintains technical requirements specifications (functional, non-functional)
- Reviews requirements specifications
- Is responsible for identifying & resolving technical risks
- Advises stakeholders on what MCA systems can do and also impact on wider scope of E2E system
- Monitors the evolution of standards that are relevant to the business / projects
- Assists Project & Product management in defining phases
- Active role in Change Request / Enhancement requests process for technical impact assessments
- Breaks down product use cases into technical system / component use cases
- Leads the core team for systems / components based on existing products to meet the customer needs
- Defines and reviews system architecture & component specification documents
- Defines and reviews interface documents
- Defines and reviews the interfaces with third party suppliers
- Performs analysis of requirements including gap analysis
- Reviews list of materials (BOM) impacted by design
- Provides guidance on requirements and system architecture to Developers, QC, Systems Integration & Systems Engineers
- Ensures the delivered solution meets the business technical requirements for moderately complex systems
- Responsible for identifying & resolving technical issues
- Reviews lower-level component design
- Provides input to the analysis of in-field issues & defects
- Breaks down high level use cases into component level use cases, identifying modules impacted
- Seeks clarification from system & solution architects as well as product team
- Contributes to requirements reviews
- Breaks down requirements into use cases for component backlogs
- Works with product team (BAs) to understand functional & user requirements / behavior
- Responsible for the component design including some of the following:
- Design patterns and framework to use
- Implementation technologies
- Third-party or Open source components
- Internal modules design & interactions
- Collaborates on Interface Definitions / APIs with other component providers
- Considers trade-off between design sophistication and time-to market when making architectural decisions
- Tracks design decisions that result in technical debt
- Owns the evolution of the component design / architecture
- Ensures implementation respects rules of agreed framework
- Applies best practices of software design
- Involved in implementing the design, often writing framework code / foundation architecture
- Offers guidance to developers, QA & Integration teams
- Provides training on component if needed
- Participates in ongoing Change Request Processes
Qualifications
- B.Sc (Electronic and/or Computer Engineering) or similar qualification.
- Postgraduate or PhD in the fields of Software or Hardware Engineering (optional).
- Relevant industry wide patents preferred.
- TOGAF certification preferable.
Experience
- Typically, 12+ years of appropriate experience in embedded software design/development, preferably STB.
- Excellent hands-on experience with Architecting and Designing for Embedded Devices.
- Strong knowledge of embedded software development, integration, debugging/troubleshooting, testing, configuration, support and maintenance processes with multiple vendor components.
- Strong knowledge of core Java language.
- Strong knowledge of Web technologies (e.g. WS, RESTful, etc.) and scripting languages (e.g. HTML, Javascript, CSS etc.)
- Strong knowledge networking technologies, protocols such as – HTTP, WS, FTP, UDP, UPnP, RTSP, RTP.
- Strong knowledge of embedded hardware systems, real-time & Linux operating systems.
- Strong knowledge of Database Design and Management tools (SQLite, etc.).
- Strong experience in Systems Design Methodologies (UML and other Modelling Techniques).
- Experience in Mentoring and Leading Technical Design Teams and good with Whitepapers and Technical presentations
- Exposure to various SDLC methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, DevOps etc.
- Nice to have knowledge of embedded C/C++ languages.
- Experience with Architectural design tools like Enterprise Architect, IBM Rational or similar.
- Experience with SDLC Tools, e.g. IBM Jazz, Jira, HP Quality Centre
- Nice to have of Hardware Design and Components for STB..
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