Software Architect Lead

GroupBy Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Platform Architect Lead to bridge the gap between business and technology. In this pivotal role, you will oversee the architecture of a cutting-edge product search and discovery platform, guiding a team of Technical Leads to design and implement solutions that drive success for major e-commerce retailers. Your expertise in cloud-native technologies, API-first platforms, and architecture evolution will be crucial as you maintain the platform's competitive edge. Join a dynamic team where your leadership will directly influence the future of e-commerce solutions and enhance user experiences across the industry.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with high-load, low-latency platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision for the platform architecture and manage Technical Leads.
• Champion implementation of the Architecture Roadmap for future features.

Skills

Cloud-native solutions

API first platforms

Microservices architecture

Event-driven architectures

AI and LLM driven solutions

Cloud infrastructure technologies

Team management

Technical communication

Architecture evolution processes

Market trends

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Rezolve (formerly GroupBy) is looking for a Platform Architect Lead who is excited to live in the space between business and technology and manage a team of outstanding Technical Leads. In this role, you will design and deliver industry-leading Rezolve Product Search and Discovery platform providing services to biggest e-commerce retailers and websites.

What you’ll be doing

You will own the technology and architecture of the Rezolve Product Search and Discovery platform and lead the team of Technical Leads working with product teams, technology vendors and customers across various industry verticals. You will design platform features and technology solutions to maintain the cutting edge of the product. Your decisions will directly impact the success of Rezolve Product Search and Discovery platform and revenues of the customer e-commerce solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the vision for the Rezolve Product Search and Discovery Platform architecture including services, software and infrastructure.
• Manage, provide guidance and mentorship for the team of Technical Leads.
• Review, refine and approve the solutions designed by the Technical Leads to ensure their consistency and balance between technical elegance and business and operational practicality.
• Enable effective integration of the Technical Leads into the product teams ensuring smooth end-to-end process from product ideation and design to implementation and operations.
• Ensure that the in-depth knowledge of the entire Rezolve Product Search and Discovery platform is preserved within the Technical Leads team to support critical issue investigations and onboarding of new developers.
• Own and champion implementation by the product teams of the Architecture Roadmap based on your architectural strategy for the Rezolve Product Search and Discovery platform maintaining technology edge and building foundation for future platform features.
• Maintain, promote and standardize processes for different aspects of the SDLC of our products such as observability, technical backlog prioritization and frameworks.
• Own the relationships with technology vendors and the process of procuring and introducing new third party technologies into Rezolve Product Search and Discovery Platform.

SKILLS YOU HAVE

• Broad and deep knowledge of various technologies, market trends and platform architectures.
• Extensive experience with high-load low-latency customer-critical API first platforms (24 hour operations).
• Experience managing a team of solution architects.
• Experience designing Cloud-native solutions.
• Execution experience in a wide variety of different architecture design patterns such as microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Experience in AI and LLM driven solutions, approaches and technologies.
• Ability to concisely communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audience.
• Experience designing and implementing processes for architecture evolution, consistency in technology selection and solution design.
• Strong understanding of the cloud infrastructure technologies.
• Able to use power of influence to manage positive outcomes without having direct authority.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience working with the e-commerce industry.
• Experience in a startup environment with a rapid growth mandate.
• Experience working in a production GCP environment.
• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related concentration.