Act as Software Architect to engage in creating/driving technology roadmap for SFS divisions products and advancing developer productivity through tools and processes.
Responsibilities:
- Be the technology evangelist for Surfscan product division
- Work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
- Acquire knowledge of key use cases in Bare wafer inspection (IC & Wafer customers)
- Create concepts/prototypes for software and help turn them into plans for execution
- Be a vivid reader of technology and process trends in the industry to define the tools, coding standards, and platforms to be used by the software team
- Interact with various software teams within and outside the division to understand their barriers and come up with suitable remedial (incremental and disruptive) solutions for productivity improvements and software modernization
- Interact with various stakeholders, project managers, and developers to envision, model, and design solutions for problems at hand.




- Monitor the code check-ins across the team regularly and review to ensure the design quality, code clarity, and adherence to coding standards.
- Mentor and collaborate with the development team and enhance their knowledge continuously.
- Develop software requirement specification and detailed design specification documents covering every aspect unambiguously - such as functionality, performance, viability, scalability, comprehensibility, security, and technological constraints.

Skills:
Hard/Technical:
- Extensive technical and product knowledge
- Solid coding skills in multiple programming languages
- Whole-rounded assessment of competing alternatives to solve problems at hand
- Ability to navigate from problem to requirements to solution - aware of trade-offs in design and implications to the software roadmap

Soft:
- Exhibit consistency over all competencies in delivering great software repeatedly
- Critical thinking, creative

📌 Engineer, Software 3 (Chennai)
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