Architect

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced JavaScript Architect to join our team. As a JavaScript Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing robust, scalable, and maintainable JavaScript-based solutions. You will work closely with our development teams to define architecture best practices, guide technical decisions, and ensure the overall quality and performance of our new and existing JavaScript applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in JavaScript development, architecture design, and a passion for staying up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the JavaScript space.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of JavaScript-based applications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborate with development teams to understand project requirements and provide architectural guidance and support.
• Define and promote best practices for JavaScript development, including coding standards, design patterns, and architectural principles.
• Conduct reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to architectural standards.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the JavaScript ecosystem, and evaluate their potential impact on our projects.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI designers and product managers, to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Preparing the Technical Architecture documents and design approaches using the various tools.
• Translating the business requirements to technical specifications that can be used by the teams to design & develop.
• Define implementation approaches, algorithms and code structure to meet the requirements.
• Architect experience and responsibility includes defining, prototyping and recommending the technology solutions, detailing the implementation design and identifying interfaces with other products for integration.
• Derive architecturally significant software requirements both functional and quality attributes.
• Technical discussions with project partners in globally distributed team.

Syngenta Group is one of the world’s leading sustainable agriculture innovation companies, with roots going back more than 250 years. Our 53,000 people across more than 100 countries strive every day to transform agriculture through tailor-made solutions for the benefit of farmers, society and our planet – making us the world’s most local agricultural technology and innovation partner.

Syngenta Group is committed to operating at the highest standards of ethics and integrity. This is a commitment that we are making to investors, customers, society and employees. Syngenta Group is also Committed to maintaining a workplace environment free from discrimination and harassment

Skills/Experience Requirements

• Experience with design patterns, Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and practices, including bounded contexts, domain models, and ubiquitous language.
• Familiarity with modern architecture patterns like serverless, microservices architecture patterns and best practices, including service decomposition, containerization, and orchestration with tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proven track record of implementing automation strategies for build, test, deployment, and monitoring processes, using tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, CircleCI or similar.
• Deep understanding of performance optimization techniques for JavaScript applications, including code profiling, caching strategies, and resource management.
• Experience defining and implementing quality matrices for JavaScript projects, including code coverage, static code analysis, and automated testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, or Jasmine.

• Good expertise on any of the Cloud platform (preferably AWS).
• Abreast of latest technologies & tools and ability to evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies as per the requirement.
• Experience with scaling and performance of large systems and web applications.
• Monitoring and improving performance.
• Explicit and extensive agile delivery experience.
• Graduate with 10 to 12 years of experience in design and development.

• Extensive knowledge of core concepts on JavaScript, ES6+ concepts, TypeScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks in relation with ReactJS.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
• Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, NextJS, Webpack, Redux/Mobx, React Query, Semantic UI / Ant design or similar.
• Database solutions such as SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Mongo / DynamoDB, etc.
• Strong in Object Oriented Programming concepts.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS) for deploying and managing JavaScript applications, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Knowledge of automated testing tools such as Jest, Playwright or Cypress.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills. Knowledge with RESTful APIs / GraphQL APIs
• Experience with tools such as Node.js, NPM/Yarn, Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization and reviewing clean/maintainable code.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Note: Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. 

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