Braintrust is hiring a

Web3 Senior Architect, IT - Customer Platforms [REMOTE]

• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: United States only - Remote (TimeZone: PST/CIST | Partial overlap)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $110 – $135/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40hr/week - Long-term

THE OPPORTUNITY

Key Responsibilities

• Model desired organizational behavior as defined in the company values and leadership competencies
• Cultivate and promote an organizational culture that provides for high performance, high morale, integrity, teamwork, and work-life balance
• Lead, support and influence the achievement of the mission, goals, and objectives of the department and corporation
• Contribute to technical design, decision-making, and tactical planning at the enterprise level
• Influence technical designs at the enterprise level and actively participate in setting technical direction of the >
• Actively participate in architecture governance (may be as a non-voting member)
• Lead large development, installation or support teams and ensure the tactical implementation of computing >
• Lead solutioning/design sessions with a program perspective in association with all interdependent systems
• Lead and facilitate the analysis, design, programming, and implementation of viable solutions to highly complex business problems according to user specifications
• Consult across multiple projects and technology areas at the same time to perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and solution implementation
• Identify measures or indicators of system performance, analyze trends to proactively prevent problems and identify actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system
• Work across projects to synchronize project plans, data analysis efforts and deliverables and to coordinate project activities across functions
• Contribute to estimates, task identification and sequencing pertaining to complex technical project activities and overall project schedules
• Actively participate and contribute to future Infrastructure Releases and Middleware/Hub
• Actively participate in checkpoint and design reviews
• Work with Business, support, or development teams in recommending process or system enhancements, including those that would minimize maintenance costs
• Ensure that systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound and integrated
• Ensure that chosen technology and coding solution is flexible, supportable, and requires minimal maintenance
• Negotiate and manage customer and team relationships at a project level
• Maintain focus on internal and external customer requirements and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of customer IT needs
• Lead/conduct detailed code-reviews in a constructive manner and coach the development of other IT technical staff
• Stay abreast of industry developments and emerging technologies to provide recommendations to the Architecture group and the principals
• Assists project teams in the development of cost and benefit analysis
• Assists in organizational, financial capital and operations planning
• Other duties as designed

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (in lieu of degree – 11 years of experience in Business, Engineering and/or IT environment)
• 7 years of work experience in Business, Engineering and/or Information Technology environment
• Prior experience leading project teams and guiding production efforts
• Expert knowledge of computer or network systems hardware and software theory, practice, concepts, and technology
• Expert knowledge of technical/business environments
• Technical expert of required programming languages
• Demonstrated proficiency in the required technologies
• Expert ability to write code and advise the work of Software Developer Engineers
• Understands Strategic Technical direction of:
  • Middleware
  • Systems Management
  • Enterprise Data & Access Layers
  • Pertinent Styles of computing

• Understands the following:
  • impact of design decision to the computer (performance, etc.)
  • technical behavior of the underlying operating system
  • technical behavior of the compiler and tools
  • ALL functional aspects of the tools and development environment
  • functional and technical behavior of the middleware and data layers
  • Dev/Ops, deployment environments
  • packaging and distribution of the application
  • operations/run requirements
• Ability to deal with complex technical issues and make appropriate trade-offs as required
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• Ability to design how a system should work and understand how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple projects or technology areas
• Ability to evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and influence technical designs
• Sufficient business knowledge to assess impact of applied technology on customer’s business processes
• Ability to review technical work of less senior staff

Preferred Qualifications

• S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems
• Expert level experience in a single technology area or broad system-level expertise across multiple computing platforms and technologies
• Advanced knowledge of project management methodology
• Ability to recommend and influence improvements across Information Technology departments
• Ability to drive and foster integration and communication across technology groups and projects
• Ability to recognize and communicate patentable ideas
• Industry experience
• Experience supporting Sales, Marketing, Contact Centers, and/or Loyalty organizations
• Experience with the following technologies - .NET, SQL Server, MuleSoft, Salesforce, Sitecore (CMS), SharePoint, Snowflake, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and Angular

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