Senior Software Architect

Software Architect - Java | Shape the Future of Sports Technology | Join Hawk-Eye Innovations

Are you an experienced Software Architect who's passionate about sports and eager to guide the direction of our software architecture? Hawk-Eye Innovations is looking for a Senior Software Architect to join our ambitious Team and help us transform the way software systems are designed and implemented in the world's biggest sports!

🌟 About the Role

As a Senior Software Architect, you'll be a key figure in an agile team responsible for outlining the strategic direction for software systems that are used in sports like tennis, baseball, football, and more. Your primary focus will be on the development and evolution of our software architectures, guaranteeing robust and efficient software solutions, and providing key architectural insights to both internal and external stakeholders. You'll work closely with product and project managers to devise sophisticated, reliable, and scalable solutions to complex challenges in sports technology.

💼 Key Responsibilities:

• Design and oversee the implementation of high-level software architectures to support the processing of large volumes of structured and unstructured data. 

• Develop and optimise software systems, ensuring their quality and integrity. 

• Guide the implementation of software solutions, including database architecture and optimization. 

• Oversee the production of high-quality back-end code, ensuring it meets specifications and is easily extendable.

• Own the architecture, undertake architectural design proposals and reviews to ensure architectures are documented, architectural trade offs are defined and agreed via stakeholder reviews.

• Collaborate with the data science, analytics and other development teams to support interoperability of data, video and metadata.

• Monitor and maintain system performance, troubleshooting architectural issues as they arise.

• Communicate effectively with developers, product and project managers to guide the development of the best software solutions.
  
  

🛠 Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise

Essential: 

Java expertise 

High-performance and real-time application development experience 

Experience designing scalable software architectures 

Web service architecture (RESTful APIs) 

JUnit & mocking frameworks 

Understanding and knowledge of Streaming Architectures and Message Queues

Microservice architecture 

Git Agile/SCRUM 

Knowledge of ETL processes and data pipelines

Cloud-based application architecture and building experience 

Nice to have: 

Spring Boot & Framework 

Docker 

AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB etc.) 

Understanding of disaster recovery, availability, and business continuity issues 

CI/CD (Jenkins/Github actions) 

Relational databases and SQL (PostgreSQL) 

Hibernate

Experience of data visualisation and observability: Grafana, datadog and cloudwatch

Testing: Postman, stages of testing (unit, integration, system and acceptance testing)

💡 Join Our Team and Shape the Future of Sports

At Hawk-Eye Innovations, you'll work with cutting-edge technologies and exceptional people to create software that's integral to some of the biggest sporting events worldwide. Be part of a team that shapes the future of sports technology for athletes, coaches, officials, teams, leagues and millions of fans around the globe!

🤝 Our Team Culture

Our team thrives on openness, honesty, and a desire to push the boundaries of technology and innovation. We work collaboratively, constantly learning, and challenging each other to improve, regardless of seniority. We are agile and strive for the highest quality in everything we produce. Ready to make a difference in the world of sports? Apply now and become a part of our Hawk-Eye family!