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Magic EdTech

Enterprise Architect - VP Technology

🇺🇸 New York, NY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $100K - $160K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ January 10th, 2025

SaaS

Edtech.com's Summary

Magic EdTech is hiring a Enterprise Architect - VP Technology to align technical and business strategies and lead solutions architecture. The role requires 10 years of experience in EdTech platform development and offers a salary range of $100K to $160K.

Highlights:

  • Responsibilities include designing solutions architecture, assessing customer architectures, and defining technical parameters.
  • Requires proficiency in engineering and software architecture for EdTech solutions like learning management and analytics.
  • Must have skills in infrastructure design, web and mobile platforms, and DevOps.
  • Desirable skills include system security, database management, and SaaS platforms.
  • Expert communication skills to interact effectively with CTOs and business teams.
  • Technically adept with a mastery of software development processes.
  • Detail-oriented and technology-agnostic to adapt to evolving technologies.
  • Collaborative experience with teams in different time zones is required.
  • Benefits include competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth.

Enterprise Architect - VP Technology Full Description

Salary Range: $100K to $160K

Locations: New York, USA

Experience: 10 Years

Role:

  • Aligning EdTech technical and business strategies
  • Design and lead the architecture of a solution
  • Assess a customer’s current architecture by investigating its components
  • Analyze a customer’s objective and assess the opportunities, risks, benefits, and costs
  • Own the technical solution parameters in a proposal response
  • Bring a “big picture” perspective to the adoption of new ideas
  • Define how technology can be used to solve a given business problem
  • Identify which framework, platform, or tech stack needs to be used for a given solution
  • Implement transformation and transitional architecture
  • Participate in the transformation board alongside the customer’s CTO
  • Define and drive the technology advisory and consulting services
  • Collaborate with project management and IT development teams.
 
Experience:

The candidate should have a minimum experience of 10 years in building EdTech platforms and solutions with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in a similar role. The candidate is expected to have experience, practical skills, and knowledge in the following:

Must have

  • Proven experience in engineering and software architecture design for developing EdTech solutions like Content distribution, Learning management, Authoring, Web / mobile reader, Assessment, Learning Analytics
  • Ability to review the actual implementation of the architecture and integration point
  • Infrastructure and engineering design
  • Web and Mobility platforms
  • DevOps

Good to have

  • System security measures
  • Database management
  • SaaS-based platform
  • Business analysis
  • Project and product management
 
Soft Skills:

The candidate should possess the following qualities:

Expert communication skills: The Solution Architect must be capable of communicating clearly the technical aspects with CTO and the business organization.

Mastery of software development process and technical skills: The candidate must possess plenty of knowledge in technical aspects to be able to provide guidance, identify risks, and assess the technology architecture and infrastructure of the solution.

Detail oriented: The candidate must be a detail-oriented individual.

Technology agnostic: Technology is constantly changing, the candidate must stay on top of the latest technologies, techniques, and tools.

Collaboration: The candidate must have past experience in collaborating with the remotely located team at offshore locations that entail a different time zone.