Software Architect
Location: Multiple locations
NextLabs® (www.nextlabs.com), a Silicon Valley technology company, is offering an exciting opportunity to software architect to participate in the development of next generation data centric security platform based on Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA).
NextLabs is the leading provider of policy-driven information risk management software for large enterprises. NextLabs’ solutions automate the enforcement of security controls and compliance policies to secure information and enable secure information sharing across the extended enterprise. NextLabs has some of the largest global enterprises as customers and has strategic relationships with many industry leaders. For more information on NextLabs, please visit https://www.nextlabs.com.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business objectives and translate them into secure, robust, scalable, and maintainable software product architecture.
- Oversee the effective delivery of all aspects of architecture, including application design and integration, data architecture, and business architecture.
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, open source components, frameworks, patterns, risk management tools and protocols to ensure the architecture is secure and meets system requirements while considering factors such as cost, security, risk, performance, and compatibility.
- Identify and devise strategies to mitigate potential technical risks and challenges by proactively assessing the product’s architecture and ensure 5 nines uptime for the system components.
- Drive solutions to customers’ problems by providing comprehensive view of how all components fit together ensures that solutions are well-integrated and aligned with overall business processes.
- Stay up to date on the latest cybersecurity threats, emerging technologies, and industry trends to ensure NextLabs products are future proof.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to software development teams on best practices in software architecture and security and assist engineers to troubleshoot and resolve issues with coding or design.
- Create and maintain software architecture documentation, including design decisions, architectural patterns, and technical standards, to serve as a reference for the development team and other stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
Requirements & Qualification:
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience (min. 5 years) working as a software architect, with a strong background in software architecture, cybersecurity, and cloud technologies.
- Proven track record in architectural design and development of large-scale, high-performance distributed applications hosted in On-Premise, Hybrid, and Multi-Cloud environments.
- Extensive knowledge of the agile software development process including hands-on experience with multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++ and Python), design patterns, frameworks (e.g., Spring, Hibernate and Angular), and tools (e.g., Git, Bitbucket, Gradle, Maven and Jenkins)
- Experience with standard security practices (e.g., identity and access management, data protection, encryption, network security protocols, certificate and key management).
- Experience with database design and data modeling.
- Good understanding of microservice architecture and REST API.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes), infrastructure provisioning, DevOps, and continuous integration/delivery.
- Knowledge of security testing approaches (e.g., SAST, SCA and DAST).
- A strategic thinker with sharp decision-making skills, show passion to learning and staying abreast of new technologies, and injecting creativity in development.
- A team player with exceptional problem-solving skills with attention to detail and ability to lead complex technical discussions.
- Expertise with data security software and policy management systems is a plus.
Interested candidates may send resume to jobs.my@nextlabs.com or use our online form.