Senior Solution Architect

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Toronto

Mindblossom is a premier, established web studio in the heart of downtown Toronto’s Fashion district (Richmond and Spadina). Our company is design driven and has experienced exponential growth in the past three years, striving to be an employer of choice and offering challenging and exciting opportunities to our employees.
Our clients include:
•    The Home Depot
•    Citibank
•    eBay
•    Sleeman
•    Reebok
•    Suzuki
See more of our work here: http://www.mindblossom.com
We are owned by Aegis Media and are part of Isobar, the world’s largest digital marketing network. Isobar now has 3015 people working in a global network of 104 offices in 38 markets. It has a unique structure and culture with Isobar providing the network structure to many of the world's leading digital agencies, all of whom are fully owned but all of them retaining what makes them special; their own identity, their culture and their specialization or local relevance.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced architect who can provide leadership and innovation for our technology team. You will work with the clients to design interactive web applications that meet their needs and budgets. You will be responsible for producing estimates, specifications and timelines for handoff to the production team. You will also be involved in the ongoing development of our strategic products. The ideal candidate understands the balance between good technology decisions and good business decisions. You will work closely with a team of extremely talented developers, designers and information architects. You will have the opportunity learn and work with new and emerging technologies. You will also have the opportunity to work with big brands and produce applications that will be used and seen by millions of people.
You will work with a structured management team who is focused on retaining and developing talent. We strive to be as agile as possible in the delivery of our work and are constantly looking for ways to make our development process lighter and more efficient.  This role reports directly to the VP of Technology.
Successful candidates must be able to perform in a fast paced environment.  You will be required to think on your feet and learn quickly. Those who are able will be rewarded with exciting work using cutting edge technologies.
Technology
Most of our applications are developed using Groovy/Grails, Flex and Flash (Action Script 3). From time to time we work with PHP, J2EE and SPRING.
We work using Ubuntu, Mac OSX and Windows. We prefer MySQL unless specified by our clients.
Requirements
•    10+ Years of software development experience.
•    Experience working with a variety of open source technologies.
•    Post-secondary education in computer science or engineering.
•    Solid understanding of Java or .NET programming principles.
•    Experience leading teams and projects.
•    Interactive agency experience is a bonus.
•    Understanding of Grails or Ruby on Rails a bonus.
•    Understanding of SPRING templates a bonus.
•    Highly motivated and willing to learn the most important of all. 
Compensation
Compensation ranges from $85,000 to $100,000 depending on experience. We also offer full benefits and an extremely generous bonus program.
We ask that you provide us with a brief overview of yourself, along with your résumé/CV. Preference will be given to candidates who have live examples of interactive apps they’ve developed.
Forward your information to: dan.branco@mindblossom.com


Posted by Mindblossom over 3 years ago

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