Showing posts with label architect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architect. Show all posts

April 3, 2012

User Experience Engineer / Architect - myTV - Lebanon

Description
- Work with Creative and project teams to define the user model and interface for new and updated features and functionality
- Create user requirement specifications, including personas, scenarios, task analysis, flowcharts and organization and navigation models, detailed wireframes, mockups and interactive prototypes to effectively communicate the user experience and user interface elements
- Develop and present user experience recommendations to key stakeholders for large-scale complex initiatives
- Lead research efforts to understand user needs such as heuristics, usability testing, focus groups, web analytics and competitor evaluations to create forward-looking, usable and best in class new products
- Initiate and lead projects to improve overall site usability by continuously evaluating current user behavior and site design and structure
- Represent and advocate the user experience perspective and serve as a resource throughout the organization by answering questions, facilitating decisions, sharing opinions and perspectives and suggesting new and innovative ideas.

Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in product design, interaction design, or human-computer interaction
- At least 5 years of experience designing large, complex websites or desktop and mobile applications that integrate database-driven content, including enhanced media with application-like functionality
- Strong interaction design and communication skills; solid understanding of UX principles
- Keen design sensibility and a passion for user experience, from high-level concept to pixel-level detail
- A proven track record collaborating on and distilling highly complex issues into easy-to-understand requirements
- A talent for synthesizing research, market trends, competitive data, etc. into concrete successful online experiences
- Proficiency with design software (e.g. Visio, OmniGraffle, Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks)
- Information architecture and visual design experience preferred
- Web-based, interactive applications experience
- Expert knowledge of integrating 3d, video, and audio assets into web-optimized environments
- Proficient in Adobe Flash (Action-script 3.0 preferred) for developing interactive prototypes
- Proficient in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
- Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop
- Experience designing Mobile Web Application a plus
- Experience with Adobe After Effects and Autodesk Maya is a plus
- Strong ability to deliver projects rapidly and iteratively
- Strong ability to be open to input and critique for work that is concept-driven
- Strong ability to communicate clearly and effectively with co-workers
- Strong ability to work independently
- Strong ability to work in a deadline-oriented, fast-paced production environment.
- Advanced skill level of User Interface Design
- Proficient skill level of Front-end Web-Application Development
- Proficient skill level of Project Management
- A combination of formal training and experience amounting in at least 3 years of experience in Interactive Application and User Interface Design
- Experience or interest in Photography a plus
- Experience or interest in Auto Industry a plus

hr@my-tv.us

March 17, 2011

Lead Architect / Principal Architect - KSA

- Direct the Architecture team members and to develop and maintain the architecture.
- To Manage and allocate the Architects of different disciplines to participate in project design.
- Assign architects to govern project technology deliverables.
- Manage the process for the development of technology standards across the bank.
- Development & Update Architecture guidelines.
- Governance of the Architecture through projects reviews.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
FINANCIAL/MONETARY (REVENUE/COST)
- Manage the direct and indirect costs of the section within allocated budget
- Propose and recommend salary increases and bonuses for the direct reports.
- Manage the budget spending of projects or programs.
- Support the department head in ensuring that solutions planning, selection and development costs are in alignment with the IT budgets.

CUSTOMER/CLIENT (INTERNAL/EXTERNAL)
- Understand and document long and short term business strategies and requirements.
- Align IT architecture continuously with the business direction.
- Manage programs (group of projects) that evolve technology architecture to deliver long term business requirements.
- Communicate and educate business and IT on the impact of the business direction to the technology architecture.
- Provide consultancy to Other IT departments during major technology changes.

SUPPLIERS/VENDORS (REGULATORS/OTHERS)
- Guide Consultancy companies on technology directions and preferences.
- Get updates on the latest trends in banking technology from vendors.

PEOPLE/EMPLOYEE (UNIT & BANK WIDE)
- Monitor team members performance
- Coach and develop team members
- Manage the people and their performance in the section.
- Interview and recommend the selection of architects in the team as required
- Lead own learning and improvement.

INTERNAL PROCESSES/PRACTICES (PRODUCTIVITY/QUALITY/COMPLIANCE/REPORTING)
- Managing the development of the IT Architecture, tech. standards, policies and guidelines.
- Governance of the overall IT architecture development and implementation.
- Approval on the design of IT business and infrastructure solutions as a result of Architecture monitoring and control.
- Decision making on the evaluated vendors and solutions for suitability within the business and technical requirements.
- Perform impact analysis of major IT projects according to change control process.
- Identify and analyze business drivers impact on the architecture

RESOURCES UNDER MANAGEMENT
- Budget allocated to the section
- Direct Reports: 2-3 Lead Architects
- The custody of the overall IT Architecture artefacts.
- The custody of the overall technology standards.

QUALIFICATION / CAPABILITIES
- University degree in Computer Science/Engineering,
- 15 years practical experience in architecting, designing, developing, and deploying IT Solutions or infrastructure;
- 3 years in management position;
- 5 years in IT project management;
- Experience in coordination & negotiation

SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES
- In depth understanding of service oriented architectures.
- In depth knowledge in various Architectural disciplines.
- Self updated about technology advances
- Strong knowledge on banking technology.
- Technology modelling skills.
- People & project management skills
- Planning and Budgeting skills
- Bilingual (Arabic/English)
- Results oriented & problem solver
- Creative and innovative

Technology: Languages: Java, JSP, XML, SQL, PHP, HTML, UML, Bash scripting, ASP, VB, C#, C
OSes: Solaris 8-10, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, UNIX
APIs: J2EE, JTA, JMS, JSF, EJB, EJB3, JDBC, Web Services, SOAP, AXIS, JAXB, SAML, Servlets, Seam, JNDI, RMI, JUnit, NGUnit, Hibernate
Server Software: ATG full stack (versions 3.0 through 2006.3), JBoss 4, Tomcat, Apache 1 and 2, iPlanet, Oracle 8-10g, PostgreSQL, MySQL, .NET
Security Tools: Foritfy, WebInspect, ESM, Nessus, assorted Linux security tools
Development Tools: Eclipse, MyEclipse, Togethersoft, Rational, XCode, Ant, CVS, Perforce, Subversion, Bugzilla, Mantis, Jira, Maven, Rational Architect, Design, Construct, BPM: 360, Cordsys, EBS.
Also have worked with: WebLogic, WebSphere, JRun, MSSQL, Sybase, NetBeans, JMX, HTTPUnit, Sping, Struts, JDO, Ajax4JSF, GWT, AIX, HP-UX, C, C++, Scheme, Akamai, Squid, ClearCase, XHTML, XST, XSL, XSD, XML Schema

Accommodation Allowance, etc - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

peter.hirst@deerfoot.co.uk

March 4, 2011

Platform Architect - Intel - Munich

Description
In this position, you will be acting as a technical expert, solutions architect and industry knowledge point, both internally and externally.
In conjunction with our sales and marketing group, you will engage with top tier companies to help define/refine and assist our customers in bringing next generation home energy management solutions to the market.
Responsible for building the technical value proposition and in providing the input for total cost of ownership modeling.
Act as the EMEA single point of contact to understand and articulate the technical requirements of the EMEA market. This will include influencing future product development/future product specifications, business strategy development and planning.

Skills
- You must possess a degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science with typically have 7-10 years relevant experience. The ideal candidate will come with Energy sector experience and have will have worked across an entire products life cycle.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically, plan and execute a strategy over a 3 year horizon.
- Experience (from a technical perspective) of taking a product to market, with a strong understanding of the support requirements and infrastructure required for enabling multiple routes to market.
- Ability to work independently, be proactive, multitask effectively and exhibit good influencing skills with strong customer orientation and willingness to travel worldwide.
- A history of working on platform architecture\solutions development within the Electrical Grid Network for example: Renewable integration, Distributed Automation, Substation Automation, Smart Metering Infrastructure or Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS).
- Known in the energy industry as evidenced though papers, conference speaking, standards participation, articles printed and other publications.
- While not essential, experience working with Intel's product lines is an advantage.

intel.com/jobs