Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Perl/Linux Architect in New York, NY

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
PERL/C/LINUX ARCHITECT

Our client a is a leading email marketing and customer intelligence company. Their technology and service is designed for companies that want to increase their brand equity through the acquisition and retention of their customer base. By empowering customers to send highly targeted and relevant emails to their permission based subscriber list, their clients can leverage the use of the web as a means to cut costs, strengthen relationships and increase ROI.


Role: Work with rapidly expanding team to develop future generation of our high volume best-in-market product. Solve significant technical challenges with group of technical managers and provide strong and decisive technical leadership. Works closely with VP of Development and Program Management to deliver a successful product.


Candidate will provide and support the architectural design, configuration and development to create a robust, scalable, flexible, highly available technology infrastructure to support product services minimizing time-to market and product development costs.


Major Job Functions

* Leads architectural design for next generation of high volume flagship product.
* Assesses business problems, system requirements, and the external system design. Obtains development estimates.
* Identifies physical design alternatives that satisfy the system requirements and presents pros and cons for each solution.
* Leads discussions with senior technical team leads to obtain buy-in of high-level design concepts.
* Exhibits leadership and decisiveness in absence of consensus. Ultimately accountable for software design of the solution.
* Prepares systems design alternatives document, conducts formal reviews, and obtains project approval on the chosen design.
* Assists with estimating the project schedule through the development phase of the project.
* Provides technical decisions on projects, program direction, and application modifications.
* Writes design documentation to clearly articulate key component interfaces.
* Able to write proof-of-concept implementations if necessary.
* May work on logical and physical database designs where applicable for the given project.
* Stays abreast of current technology, new technological advances and company standards.
* Document and coordinate cross-functional data models necessary to support business functionsQualifications

* Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
* Typically requires a minimum of 7 years related experience in multiple technologies
* Strong knowledge of platform specific tools and utilities.
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
* Strong oral and written communication skills.
* Good knowledge of software development methodologies.
* Ability to think creatively
Apply directly at: http://www.net-temps.com/job/awow/09-00021/perl_linux_architect.html?r=gad
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