IOS Architect - Randstad USA

job summary:

Our client is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in

 
location: Seattle, Washington
job type: Contract
salary: $90 - 95 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

• About this team
  
  

  The Architect partners with delivery teams to architect, design, and build flexible, scalable, and resilient applications and services that can more easily adapt to future business needs. The Mobile App is the Guest facing Native iOS Application. The App is the Front End experience for guests to browse and purchase product, as well as engage with other Guest Specific features, such as Community, Wishlist's, Loyalty etc.

  A day in the life:

• Lead the business/functional architecture and strategy for solutions in a manner consistent with our Technology's enterprise architecture, applying common frameworks and re-usable components
  
  
• Help ensure the operational platforms and associated interfacing data and systems have been properly architected from and end-to-end perspective to meet the functional and non-functional needs of the business
  
  
• Work closely with other domain architects (DevOps, CICD, Mobile, db, and other integrated systems) and development teams to support and guide solution implementations and acts as an advisor for technical resources on projects
  
  
• Assist the estimation of dev and QA efforts ensuring proper understanding of implementation scope, as well as adherence to best practices and methodical delivery
  
  
• Work directly with Business Analysts to define and refine technical requirements for future work
  
  
• Ensure as-requested functionality gets translated into as-designed solutions within the context of timeline, resources, org structure and quality
  
  
• Take ownership of bringing conceptual design down to a level of detail that can be physically implemented. Ensuring all required details and documentations are in the right place on Jira and confluence.
  
  
• Develop and maintain current and future-state architecture models
  
  
• Stay abreast of industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
  
  
• Partner with delivery teams to architect, design, and build flexible, scalable, and resilient applications and services that can more easily adapt to future business needs.
  
  
• Conduct code reviews alongside QA and developers to ensure adherence to specs, design solutions with other architects for system integrations
  
  
• Collaborate with DevOps and infra teams for backend setup,
  
  
• Participate in technology reviews and conduct as-built audit + documentation, and work with ops readiness teams to design system continuity and support.
  
  
• Advise Mobile Developers on best practices and Architecture usage
  
  
• Coordinate Mobile Application Release Processes
  
  
• Advise and Monitor Resource usages and costs (AWS)
  
  
• Qualifications:
  
  
• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent work experience
  
  
• 3-5 Years of iOS Engineering Experience
  
  
• 3-5 years of AWS Architecture Experience
  
  
• 3 Years of Architecture Experience
  
  
• strong experience building inhouse apps.
  
  
• While proficiency in Cloud architecture is not required, the experience building architecture for Apps with a supporting Cloud architecture is.
  
  
• must haves
  
  
• Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
  
  
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.
  
  
• Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.
  
  
• Lead with