Application Architect

As an Application Architect at Trinetix, your primary responsibilities include developing high-level architectural visions for products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to assess functional and non-functional requirements, leading technical decision-making, and ensuring effective communication with clients regarding architectural approaches. You will also create and maintain architecture documentation and participate in project performance reviews. Your active involvement in the agile process, including daily stand-ups and retrospectives, is key to ensuring project success.

To be considered for the Application Architect position at Trinetix, candidates should possess at least 5 years of commercial software development experience, with over 1 year in a technical lead or architect role. A solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and cloud managed services is essential. Additionally, you should have experience collaborating with stakeholders and a proactive mindset towards modern technology trends. An upper-intermediate level of English is required to effectively communicate within our diverse teams.

Application Architects at Trinetix leverage a rich technology stack, including programming languages like Python and .NET, with databases such as MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL. Experience in cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and GCP, as well as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, is highly beneficial. Familiarity with microservices architecture, REST APIs, and CI/CD practices is also desired, ensuring you are well-equipped to handle various technical challenges.

At Trinetix, the Application Architect collaborates closely with a diverse team of technical professionals, including Developers, QA Engineers, Technical Delivery Managers, and Business Systems Analysts. Our teams generally consist of up to 50 people, functioning cross-functionally to ensure that every element of the project is expertly executed. This collaborative environment fosters creativity and innovation, allowing you to contribute meaningfully to projects.

Trinetix offers a comprehensive benefits package for the Application Architect position, including paid training programs and English language courses, medical insurance, and compensation for sports programs. Candidates will enjoy the flexibility of working from home, with the option for in-office collaboration upon request. Additionally, we promote a positive company culture with regular team events and knowledge-sharing opportunities to help you grow both personally and professionally.

When answering this question, focus on specific projects where you led architectural design decisions. Highlight your ability to assess requirements and craft adaptive architectures that meet both functional and non-functional requirements. Discuss technologies you've utilized, methodologies applied, and how these design choices impacted the project's outcome.

Effective communication is essential in any project environment. When responding, emphasize your strategies for keeping stakeholders informed, such as regular updates, using visual aids like diagrams, and soliciting feedback during meetings. Share examples of how you navigated differing expectations and streamlined communication processes to achieve project goals.

Discuss your methodology for technology evaluation, including criteria such as scalability, community support, ease of integration, and long-term viability. Include examples of when you successfully selected a technology that greatly benefited a project, demonstrating your capacity to foresee potential impacts on the overall architecture.

When addressing this question, elaborate on principles such as bounded contexts, service granularity, data management, and inter-service communication. Provide examples from your experience where these considerations were crucial in guiding your architectural decisions, ensuring robust and maintainable microservices.

In your response, detail specific CI/CD tools and practices you've implemented, like Jenkins, GitLab CI, and automated testing strategies. Discuss how you ensured smooth deployment processes and reduced errors using these practices. Highlight the experience of collaborating with teams to establish deployment standards and achieve consistent delivery.

Address this question by discussing the importance of open dialogue in a team. Share your approach to conflict resolution, which may include facilitating discussions, actively listening to different viewpoints, and guiding the team toward data-driven decisions. Provide examples of how you have resolved conflicts while ensuring team morale remains high.

Explain your experience with PoCs and MVPs, detailing your specific roles in these processes. Discuss how you balance stakeholder needs with technical feasibility and how you use PoCs to test ideas rapidly, validating them before full-scale development. Offer illustrations of successful PoC or MVP projects you've led.

Your response should demonstrate your commitment to continuous learning. Discuss resources you utilize for keeping current, such as online courses, technology blogs, conferences, or workshops. Mention specific technologies or trends you’ve explored recently and how they might be relevant to your role as an Application Architect at Trinetix.

Provide insights into specific challenges you've encountered, such as scaling issues, technological constraints, or miscommunication. Explain the strategies you employed to address these challenges and the resulting improvements in system performance or project coherence. This showcases your problem-solving skills and ability to adapt.

To effectively answer this question, reflect on the significance of architecture in shaping the overall system performance, maintainability, and scalability. Share your perspective on how well-architected systems facilitate collaboration and ease future enhancements. Illustrate this with examples from your past projects.