Vonage is looking for a talented and experienced technical and enterprise architect. You will join a growing architecture team within Vonage’s communications platform. You will lead the architecture initiative for one of Vonage’s highest-profile and key strategic projects.
You will also work directly with engineering teams, enabling them to deliver software more effectively. You will be a member of the API Group’s architecture advisory group.
Finally, you will be a key advisor to the Director of Engineering, being an important bridge between them and the engineering teams.
What You’re Great At
Independently tackling challenges: You don’t need anyone to keep you on track.
You’re organized and efficient
Articulate complex problems simply
A strategic thinker - able to understand and develop where we are, where we want to get to and how we can get there
Strong soft skills & ability to work with and influence multiple teams.
Flexibility and adaptability to work in a growing, dynamic team
What You Must Have Experience In
10+ years in software development
What You’re Good At
Although your focus will be on a key project, you can organise yourself effectively to work cross department
Energy, curiosity, and a desire to learn and improve.
Finding pragmatic solutions to complex socio-technological problems.
What technical skills are a must
At least one of Java, Golang, Kotlin, Python or a similar programming language
Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferable)
Mapping of platform architectures
System design
Strong understanding of security best practices
What technical skills are nice to have but not essential
Kubernetes or a similar container orchestrator
Kafka or similar event bus technology
Database architecture
Qualities About You That Might Make Our Decision Easier
Experience operating in a similar technical lead role.
Seeing the bigger picture and grasping the full scope of the business.
Be a strong advocate for DevOps, agile and lean software development practices.
A drive to always leave things better than how you found them: Code, processes, documentation, interactions with people and every other aspect of your work life.