Job Description
The successful candidate will join the Application Services (Loyalty Marketing) department in SIA Information Technology Division. As Principle Technologist with Kris+/Krispay (world’s first blockchain based airline loyalty digital wallet), you will be working with our team of developers, UX designers and product specialists to enhance our platform, web and mobile channel offering.
Key responsibilities:
- Propose and determine technical solutions and integrations to fulfil business requirements and address issues. Collaborate with the squad, stakeholders, and various teams, both onsite and offshore.
- Support Business and Application teams by identifying/solving their business challenge from a technical point of view and recommend optimal robust solutions supported by analysis and data.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams to develop and deliver solutions.
- Develop and maintain highly reliable, efficient, secure, and scalable API and web application.
- Work with our CI/CD and release management tools and processes to quickly deliver high quality code.
- Facilitate the detection, troubleshooting and resolution of pre and post-production issues.
- Assist with various stages of the API & Web application development lifecycle such as requirements gathering, user interface design and usability testing.
- Keep abreast of the latest technology and conduct research and prototyping using such technologies.
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of the solution domain and industry best practices to implement the most current and relevant solutions.
- Any relevant ad-hoc duties.
- This is an individual contributor role.
Requirements
- Degree in Information Technology or related fields
- Minimum 12 year of hands-on experience developing API and web/mobile applications, including at least 3-5 years of experience in software solution architecture
- Extensive experience in acquiring in-depth domain knowledge for technical setup, design, and solution implementation. Primarily focuses on producing technical design, architecture and solution that meet the expected software quality attributes
- Extensive experience in server-side programming in Java and/or NodeJS, and in architecture patterns such as Microservices, Event-driven architecture and Service-Oriented Architecture.
- Architecture related certification such as AWS Certified Solution Architect, Azure Solutions Architect.
- Strong analytical and conceptual thinking with excellent problem-solving, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with cloud-based technologies and services, such as AWS or Azure.
Solid understanding of software design, architecture, development, and DevOps. - Good grasp of modern architecture patterns, design patterns & enterprise integration patterns and the ability to apply them.
- Knowledge of the mobile technologies.
- Knowledge in designing software as a service (SaaS) products
- Good verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively with team and executive level stake holder
- Good presentation skills and Critical thinking skills
Preferred Skills
- Experience in Agile environments, Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, Automation, CI/CD, and git-based source tools.
- An understanding of various software architectural principles such as MVVM, MVP, SOLID or similar.
- Knowledge in Android and iOS development.
- Knowledge of blockchain would be beneficial.
