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Updated March 14, 2024
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Architects are licensed to create designs for infrastructures such as houses, buildings, and retail spaces, draw up blueprints, and sign these off for actual construction. They are expected to meet the client's vision, manage expectations, and ensure that the infrastructure has a sound foundation based on scales.

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Architect requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in architect job postings.
Sample architect requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Architecture
  • Knowledge of building codes and regulations
  • Proficiency in design software
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints
  • Experience in construction and design
Sample required architect soft skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong problem-solving abilities
  • Creative thinking and design skills
  • Organizational and time management skills
  • Ability to work in a team environment

Architect job description example 1

Google architect job description

Minimum qualifications:

+ Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

+ 10 years of experience designing RF solutions for consumer electronics.

Preferred qualifications:

+ Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, specializing in RF or electromagnetics.

+ Experience with scripting and automation tools for data collection/analysis.

+ Experience in an RF architecture capacity.

+ Knowledge of regulatory requirements (e.g., FCC, IC, CE), carrier specifications, and their respective certification processes.

+ Familiarity with simulation tools and/or circuit simulation capability such as ADS, HFSS, etc.

+ Excellent technical communication, presentation skills, and attention to detail.

Our computational challenges are so big, complex and unique we can't just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we've got to make it ourselves. Your team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers affecting millions of Google users.

As a Radio Frequency (RF) Hardware Architect, you will define, design, and validate industry solutions for future generations of Pixel devices. You will be involved in cross-functional team engagement, defining overall product architecture, to achieve RF performance.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

+ Define architecture, specifications, and system level performance goals for cellular systems.

+ Research RF components across the industry.

+ Lead vendors to develop RF blocks to meet architectural needs.

+ Design and optimize RF cellular solutions.

+ Manage printed circuit board (PCB) design on development boards and form factor devices.
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Architect job description example 2

Sanofi US architect job description

Our Team: The Azure Cloud Architect develops innovative solutions and technology strategy around Cloud landscape. They own the E2E solution design across technologies in an Hybrid environment: on-Prem/Azure

Main responsibilities:

  • Owns solution design for cross domain initiatives and works across domains to ensure cohesive solution.

  • Reviews and identifies the gaps in the architecture and solution designs, assesses and defines remediation efforts or mitigation options.

  • Drives to practical solutions considering all teams, initiatives and long-term outlook.

  • Drives the overall technical design and end-to-end solution design for assigned initiatives.

  • Ensures quality, consistency and alignment of designs to organization's standards and digital strategy.

  • Drives large cross domain initiatives that are supported by E2E Design, applies digital standards to project Solution Architecture, drives Technical Strategy and architectural tradeoff discussions

About You

  • Experience : 5+ years experience working in cloud environment, especially Azure (Infrastructure, implementation)

  • Soft skills : Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in an international, multi-cultural and multidisciplinary environment, Ability to adapt to a changing and highly dynamic work environment.

  • Technical skills : Azure, Automation, On premise, native cloud, E2E Design.

  • Education : Masters in Computer Science or related field. Azure certification is a plus

  • Languages : Good written and communication English skills.

As a healthcare company and a vaccine manufacturer, Sanofi has an important responsibility to protect individual and public health. All US based roles require individuals to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of your job responsibilities

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Fully vaccinated, according to the CDC, an individual is considered to be “fully vaccinated” fourteen (14) days after receiving (a) the second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, or (b) the single dose of the J&J vaccine. Fully vaccinated, for new Sanofi employees, is to be fully vaccinated 14 DAYS PRIOR TO START DATE.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.

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Architect job description example 3

McDonald's architect job description

The McDonald's Global Architecture team is responsible for the architecture, design, integration, and management strategy of McDonald's digital and restaurant landscape. These systems power one of the most significant brands in the world, enabling and scaling to over 38,000 McDonald's restaurants operating in over 120 diversified countries. Furthermore, these software platforms provide the foundation to achieve operational excellence and to reliably serve some of the world's favorite food to a base of over 70 million customers every day leveraging a variety of channels to place your order.

We need a collaborative and self-directed individual who, in partnership with other Architects, will engage customers and stakeholders to clarify expectations, apply relevant standards and best-practices, and drive the delivery of infrastructure solutions and services. This will be a collaborative role, necessitating strong interpersonal and influencing skills in addition to broad IT domain knowledge, particularly in retail / restaurant, cloud native design (hyper convergence), and Architecture Governance practices. The role will have influence and oversight over restaurant platform / backend systems and provisioned capabilities to ensure consistency of product and integration best practices.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Partner with our restaurant product and engineering teams to review architecture, solution designs and drive alignment on a Platform and Application North Star

Create and maintain blueprints of all McDonald's Restaurant Platform systems as well as PaaS/SaaS solutions provided by vendors.

Assess the current state of restaurant technology and create a “North Star” blueprint with the architecture team to guide future state developments.

Translate the technical roadmap to senior business leadership to help them better understand how technology will impact their business objectives.

Set architecture standards across and establish a blueprint for what restaurant backend capabilities will be needed

Oversee technology consulting vendors and ensure they are following all architectural standards and meeting all KPI's set forth by the Architecture team.

Develop critical architecture standards and ensure there is an effective balance of centralized and decentralized standards.

Conduct compliance reviews and provide course correction when necessary.

Design and develop innovation POCs and fast fail concepts for vendors to develop

Triages technology proposals against existing infrastructure standards and best practices, and leads subsequent solution and variance activities

Analyzes new solution requests, solicits and clarifies nonfunctional requirements, and formulates conceptual and physical architectures, to rapidly deliver solutions in a fast paced, multi-vendor, cloud-first environment

Helping teams to develop the product on time, on budget and ensuring that it solves the problem it was designed to solve

Analyzing the technology environment

Analyzing enterprise specifics

Analyzing and documenting requirements

Participation and guidance in architectural discussions

Key Relationships:

Product Manager(s), Development Managers, Service Delivery Manager(s)

Maintain strong global working relationships within the McDonald's organization

Maintain good working relationships with all suppliers

Maintain good working relationships with all customers
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Updated March 14, 2024

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