Director of Software Architecture & Infrastructure

at  IO Global

SUMMARY

As the Director of Software Architecture and Infrastructure at IOG, you lead the guild of architects. This guild regroups all Architecture Directors for IOG projects and programs, who report to you.
IOHK is a research and development, innovation driven company. Your mission is to provide a long term architectural vision at IOG that ensures collaboration, knowledge-sharing, interoperability and reusability of specifications and implementations across IOG’s projects (Cardano, Atala and others). You also have the responsibility for defining which support infrastructure (Cloud, On-Premise and others) these projects will need to support, to implement and to recommend. In order to assist you in this mission, you will have the support of the Head of Interoperability and infrastructure experts.
You will lead a team of accomplished architects and engineers and be able to manage the uncertainties and ambiguities associated with working in a remote-first, distributed, decentralized environment.
You will report to the CTO and work closely with the Chief Scientist, Chief Product Officer and the Research division in order to define the architectural vision and strategy for the company. You will be responsible for hiring the Architecture Directors when the company funds new projects and initiatives.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

• PhD or Master in Computer Science
• 15+ years of experience in computing
• 5+ years in the crypto/blockchain industry
• 5+ years as a team leader or manager
• Professional English

The duties of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the chapter of Architects and manage Directors of architecture
• Hire the Director of architecture when IOG bootstraps new initiatives
• Recruit and build an outstanding team of infrastructure Architects
• Recruit and build an outstanding team specifically dedicated to blockchain interoperability
• Define a vision and instill a culture of fostering ingenuity, creativity, inventiveness, originality, problem solving and simplicity in the team
• Define processes for the team to:
• Ensure knowledge sharing between projects and teams
• Ensure that architectural work can be reused across projects as much as possible
• Define and implement best practices for architecture specifications
• Define recommendations for support infrastructure for our projects
• Coordinate with all other departments, in particular Product, IT and Research, and address their requirements
• Integrate technical trends reports and prototypes developed internally
• Align with the department of Formal Methods to ensure that best practices are followed for implementing formally verified architecture when beneficial
• Coordinate with the Applied Cryptography department to ensure that architecture are cryptographically secure and reuse state of the art technologies
• Work closely with the Director of Engineering to make sure that architecture is implemented following software development best practices, coding and quality guidelines
• Work closely with the Research Division to forecast the technologies to be integrated in future architecture
• Work closely with the Product Division in order to manage a backlog of features to be supported by the architecture
• Work closely with the IT department to define IOG requirements for operating its support infrastructure
• Drive performance management conversations, and develop shared, organization level goals, across IOG, driving results in common goals to keep team performance on-track and aligned with our high-quality standards