Chief Software Architect (onsite), Cyberjaya, Malaysia

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Posted: January 20, 2022

Job title: Chief Software Architect

Company name: Deriv Services Sdn Bhd

Location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
The Role

The primary roles of the Chief Software Architect are to provide
hands-on architecture leadership, guidance and mentoring to our engineering
teams, be a close collaborator and trusted advisor to the CTO, and ensure
the delivery of high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions. This person
will be a thought-leader, with real-world business common sense, and the
ability to collaborate across functions.


The ideal candidate has a strong
understanding of the full stack of software development and cloud
technologies, exceptional communication and negotiation skills, and
experience guiding software and quality engineers in the implementation of
production solutions. In addition, the Chief Software Architect is tasked
with working with the engineering teams in solving technical issues on
performance, scalability, and enterprise systems including technical
leadership for the full front-end and back-end product life cycle i.e.,
requirements gathering, design, development, testing and deployment.


The
Challenge

Deriv has grown substantially over recent years. The staff count
has grown from 120 in 2018 to 720 today, and business volume has grown by
an even larger factor. Deriv=E2=80=99s IT teams manage hundreds of cloud se=
rvers,
databases with terabytes of data, high-frequency data systems and databases
that require high availability, and integrations to dozens of key
third-party systems. These systems and servers are also subject to
demanding security and disaster recovery requirements. On the front-end and
mobile applications development side, the challenges include offering
low-latency user interfaces to hundreds of thousands of active users in
over a hundred countries worldwide, with excellent usability and detailed
metrics-tracking for the marketing and business development teams.


With a
long backlog of new projects and initiatives to execute and a continually
growing staff count, Deriv=E2=80=99s challenge is to reduce dependencies be=
tween
systems, processes, and teams, so that development and releases for various
products can occur asynchronously. The Chief Software Architect will be
integral to this effort, proposing system architecture plans that reduce
dependencies and accelerate deployment.


Responsibilities and Objectives

-Drive project/program execution.
-Provide architectural and technical
guidance to the Back-end, -Front-end, and DevOps engineering teams.
-Deliver quality software products on schedule and within budget.
-Be
responsible for full life cycle systems/applications development.
-Lead the
design, development, integration, and debugging of systems and
applications.
-Do requirements analysis, system/software design and
analysis, development/software metric creation and analysis, system risk
analysis, integration, and test metrics.
-Develop and maintain detailed
program schedules and software development plans.
-Translate product
requirements into engineering specifications.
-Manage and oversee software
development tasks and overall engineering schedule.
-Provide leadership to
the software engineering teams and enforce standard company policies and
procedures that adhere to software development standards.
-Work closely
with the CTO to define product direction and design.
-Anticipate future
system needs and be proactive in identifying solutions.
-Be responsible for
project planning and management.
-Be actively involved in the recruitment
effort, to build high-performance engineering teams.
-Evaluate and identify
new technologies for implementation.
-Support, maintain, and document
software functionality.

Benefits

-Market-based salary
-Annual performance
bonus
-Health benefits
-Casual dress code
-Travel and internet allowances

Desired skills:
Qualifications & Experience

-Bachelor=E2=80=99s degree in computer science or a
related field (Master=E2=80=99s degree from a top university is highly pref=
erred).
-Extensive experience with developing and delivering commercial enterprise
software.
-Experience in software architecture and engineering.
-Experience
in project/program management including managing Back-end Development,
Front-end Development, and Quality Assurance teams.
-Experience with
Perl/PHP, Python, C++, Javascript, NodeJS, React, Chef, Terraform, AWS,
Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, and similar languages and technologies.
-Experience with Linux and Windows Network and Server Management.

Personal
Characteristics

The ideal candidate will exhibit the personal drive,
passion, innovative thinking, and enthusiasm to both understand and
successfully navigate a fast-growing company striving towards achieving
market leadership in a competitive industry environment. This individual is
a:

-Natural leader with strong people management skills and the ability to
build, manage, and mentor a world-class engineering team to inspire strong
workforce performance.
-Strong character under pressure with excellent work
ethic and professionalism.
-Effective communicator with excellent written
and verbal communication skills.
-Good listener with strong interpersonal
skills.
-Good speaker with strong presentation skills, and demonstrated
ability, experience,
and presence to credibly engage a wide range of
stakeholders.
-Confident with a can-do attitude and the ability to act
quickly and decisively.
-Pragmatic with a realistic sense of what is
achievable under given constraints.
-Proactive, moving beyond their comfort
zone in pursuit of the company=E2=80=99s mission
and vision.
-Right fit, with a
combination of personality traits, including collaboration and teamwork,
honesty, integrity, intensity, and passion, necessary to blend with the
rest of the executive management team.
-Available for occasional travel to
Deriv=E2=80=99s worldwide offices in support of existing operations.

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