Senior Software Architect at Arnergy Solar Limited

Arnergy is a distributed utility providing energy reliability to SMEs and economic clusters in emerging market with flexible acquisition options including energy Subscription (ES) based on monthly fixed fee, consumer financed Lease to Own (LO) with monthly instalment or a Outright Sales (OS) option. Arnergy is on track to deploy excess of 100 Megawatt installed PV capacity powering more than 35,000 businesses across impact sectors not limited to Healthcare, Education, Hospitality by 2023. If you are excited to be part of the solution to Africa's energy crisis starting with Nigeria, we are happy to have you on board.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Architect

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• As a Senior Software Architect, you will be responsible for the design, development, and delivery of complex software systems required for our operations.
• You will collaborate with other teams including engineering, product management, and other stakeholders to shape the technology stack, define architectural decisions, and ensure the software solutions are scalable, maintainable, and meet business requirements.
• This role requires a deep understanding of software architecture, security, cloud platforms, microservices, hands-on coding experience, and the ability to communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities
You will:

• Lead the design and evolution of software systems and services, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and high performing.
• Provide technical guidance to development teams, reviewing code, conducting design and architecture reviews, and mentoring junior developers.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure that the architecture aligns with business goals and user needs.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and frameworks to meet project requirements and organizational standards.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and technical debt while ensuring high-quality software delivery.
• Advocate for and enforce software engineering best practices, design patterns, and coding standards within the team.
• Create and maintain architectural documentation, including high-level designs, diagrams, and deployment models.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and tools.
• Identify opportunities to improve the architecture and development processes.
• Assess and mitigate technical risks, ensuring that potential issues are addressed early in the design phase.
• Work with DevOps, security teams, and business teams to ensure the delivery of robust and secure solutions.

Requirements and Skills
You’ll be a good fit for this role if:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in science or engineering discipline e.g. Computer, Electrical, Electronics (2.1- or First-class graduates only).
• You have 10+ years of professional experience in software development, with at least 5
• years in software architecture.
• You have strong experience in modern software development languages and frameworks (mainly Python and Java).
• You have a good understanding of lower-level software stack and interactions with the hardware layer.
• You have hands-on experience with cloud platforms (mainly AWS) and cloud-native architecture.
• You are proficient in designing and implementing microservices-based architectures.
• Must be familiar with Kubernetes platform
• You have deep knowledge of systems design, data modeling, distributed systems and security.
• You are familiar with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines
• You have experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra).
• You understand DevOps practices and infrastructure automation.
• You have experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, etc).
• You have proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire engineering teams. You are proactive
• in driving engineering collaboration & obtaining input to solve issues.
• You possess effective problem-solving skills, familiar with a full suite of debug and performance analysis tools and techniques.
• You get things done; you are an execution expert with relevant certifications.
• You have a background in computer/electrical/mechanical engineering or related
• technical discipline, or equivalent experience. You are an engineer at heart and in practice.
• You are hard as nails - you don’t take no for an answer, you are also very empathetic, understanding people need time to adapt.
• Customers love you; you are really good with people; you work well with people - you are the life of the party.
• You are proactive, and on point. You are excellence personified.
• You are on top of your game, ideally you are a sector thought leader.

We’d also like to see:

• Flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced, changing environment
• An attribute of grit
• Proven ability to schedule own workload
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Compliance oriented, good interpersonal skills
• Excellent time management, task prioritizing and organizational ability
• High level of attention to detail.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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