Senior Architect (Australia)

About Arcanys

Arcanys is a privately owned 300+ people company, with about 280 software engineers, QAs, PMs, BAs and designers in the Philippines.

While looking like just another technology outsourcing firm, Arcanys is at the forefront of the industry, both helping startups and mid-sized companies to scale their development team, and making meaningful financial investments in early stage startups with its Arcanys Ventures arm.

With a pace of about 10 new investments per year, the majority of them are in Australia. While Arcanys has a team of 5 senior architects based in Europe and one in Melbourne. With increasing demand, we need to hire an additional architect based in Melbourne to help lead a team of approximately 20 engineers at one of our portfolio companies.

What’s this role about?

The Senior Architect is a technical leadership role. The successful candidate acts as a bridge between business vision and technical execution. The role has four main responsibility areas:

Architecture

Technical Leadership

Cloud Resource Configuration

Security

The Senior Architect will lead application architecture strategy, provide technical leadership to the development team, oversee Azure cloud resource strategy, and assume a lead role in security and PCI compliance.

What are the required skills / conditions?

Non-negotiables

Must currently reside in Melbourne, Australia, and have full, immediate work rights (no visa sponsorship or relocation support available)

Minimum 15 years working experience in software development

Previous experience leading a software development team using Agile/SCRUM methodologies

Expert-level Microsoft C# .NET skills

Expert-level Angular framework and JavaScript/TypeScript skills

Extensive RDBMS experience with Microsoft SQL Server (Azure SQL Database preferred)

Previous experience using Microsoft Azure

Extensive experience creating and maintaining unit tests

Previous experience leading teams’ unit testing approaches

Preferred requirements

Experience using Azure App Service

Experience using Azure SQL Database

Experience using Azure DevOps

Experience using CI/CD based upon Azure DevOps

Previous experience obtaining PCI DSS certification

Technology / platforms

Azure DevOps

Azure Boards (SCRUM methodology)

Azure Repos (TFVC and Git)

Azure Pipelines (CI/CD)

Azure Test Plans

Visual Studio / Visual Studio Code

Angular

TypeScript

C#.NET

VB.NET (legacy)

Entity Framework

Entity Spaces (legacy)

Azure SQL Database

Azure Cosmos Database

Microsoft Azure PaaS resources:

Application Gateway (WAF)

App Service

Application Insights

Azure Key Vault

Log Analytics Workspace

Azure Sentinel

What are the responsibilities?

Architecture

Guidance and oversight of high level design

Oversight of interaction of software components (internal and external)

Guidance and oversight of database design

Guidance and oversight of application performance

Responsibility for application architecture strategy and execution

Technical Leadership

Provide guidance and leadership to the development team using Agile/SCRUM methodologies

Perform code reviews

Measure and improve code and unit testing quality

Provide technical assistance and issue resolution

Identify and review continuous improvement opportunities

Handle ad-hoc complex matters

Cloud Resource Management

Responsible for cloud resource design strategy

Oversee high level design and configuration of Azure resources

Ongoing management of Azure resources

Performance measurement and optimisation

Cost measurement and optimisation

Security

Ensure PCI compliance standards and processes are included in software delivery

Manage processes related to third party software patching

Identify and remediate vulnerabilities

Assume the lead role for security and PCI compliance of platforms and resources

Working conditions

The successful candidate must currently reside in Melbourne, Australia, work in person 1–2 days per week (as per mutual agreement), and will report directly to the founder/CTO based in Melbourne.

Works with a development team of 21 staff members, including Business Analysts, Developers, QA Engineers, and Project Managers based in the Philippines.

The company has a relaxed working environment, casual dress code, and a flat management style with an open-door policy.