Freelance Architect Job Description
Freelance architect
provides mentoring, coaching, problem identification and resolution for team members, such as project managers and development teams they support, regarding agile software development principles and practices, Scrum and Kanban processes, teambuilding, and facilitation;.
Freelance Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Identifies new opportunities for their client
May need to rapidly produce interim deliverables (such as style guide components, technical specifications, browser and market analysis, prototypes, proofs of concept, ) in addition to the final live site or application
Resolve and work on issues across multiple functional areas
Working closely with clients to translate business requirements into meaningful interactive experiences Leading and/or participating in immersive user research, concept testing, and usability testing
Works with the Client Services’ teams and Project Managers during pre-production meetings to translate the client’s business requirements to a sound technical architecture/approach
Ability to multi-task and quickly produce interim deliverables (such as style guide components, prototypes, proofs of concept, ) in addition to the final live site or application
Preparing EA documentation (site architectures, wire frames, use cases and task flows, ) to be used by the production team
Applies the Data Architecture Patterns existing in the company for the requirements of the respective business area(/s)
Works with the design champions in the Delivery Teams throughout project life cycles to help build / ratify repeatable design patterns and consistency of approach as part of Design Assurance
Builds data models to support the business and development needs Persists the data model in database structures
Freelance Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Education for Freelance Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the freelance architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Economics, Anthropology, History, English, Communications, Technical, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Library Science
Skills for Freelance Architect
Desired skills for freelance architect include:
Application and system architecture at all levels
Estimating in an iterative software development process
Staffing
Project planning
Scrum
Systems Development Lifecycle processes and methodologies
Technology and how to connect technology to business problems
Their abilities and constraints
KANBAN
Agile and iterative methodologies like SCRUM
Desired experience for freelance architect includes:
Social Network Platform development
Social / Microsite applications and technologies
3rd party social platforms (Bazaarvoice, Pluck)
Expert in developing and testing across multiple devices/platforms and browsers (traditional desktop and mobile devices), using MVC/AJAX/CSS preprocessing concepts and tools such as Fiddler, Firebug, YSlow, Google PageSpeed
Support development of strategic technical design of the Data Warehouse and associated tools
Significant experience in Data Architecture on Business Intelligence and Enterprise Data Warehousing projects
Freelance Architect Examples
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Freelance Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a freelance architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for freelance architect
- Specify and analyse Digital / IT solution to address a business problem / needs, according to the functional and non-functional requirements, interdependencies, system architecture, industry standards and budget
- Recommend Digital / IT solutions which are in line with industry’s best practice of the use of emerging technologies
- Defines product non-functional requirements and creates high-level architectural specifications, ensuring feasibility, functionality, and integration with existing systems/platforms
- Provides advanced technical guidance, supports vast number of Applications Development
- Design & architecture of Single Page Applications
- React, Material UI, Axios, .
- Cooperation with designing REST and GraphQL APIs
- Splitting old MVC CodeBase into separate independent modules
- Rewriting JS to TS
- Creating new React micro Apps with per page functionality
Qualifications for freelance architect
- 4-5 weeks starting next week (briefing, document review etc) and then UX workshop
- Lead UX workshop with client stakeholders along with our team as support
- Creation of user journey maps, site map, wireframes and potentially requirements documentation/feature set including interactive construction map feature
- Intermediate to Senior IA required
- Client creating content strategy and overarching website strategy
- Might need to conduct stakeholder interviews
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Freelance Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of freelance architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for freelance architect
- Data Stores and modules used in base React and React Native apps
- Process of standardizing of CI and delivery SPAs to production based on different regions
- Support FE developers with new features and technologies
- Regular workshops for (not only FE) developers
- Architecture design of holistic Cloud ecosystem with a focus on Google Cloud Platform capabilities and features
- Architecture design of Production, Staging/QA, and Development infrastructures running is 24/7 environments
- Robust and consistent Cloud Strategy design aligned with business objectives
- Provide guidelines for infrastructure migration approaches and techniques including numerous applications migrations into the cloud including implementation of hybrid cloud solutions within regulated enterprise environments
- Evangelize Cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive Cloud Adoption
- The candidate becomes a valuable member of EPAM's Google Solutions Practice in Sweden, providing Cloud expertise within the team
Qualifications for freelance architect
- Ability to communicate business needs to technical people and to communicate and simplify complex technical information for non-technical people, and manage expectations with clients and partners
- Experience of planning, designing, and/or developing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) development
- Have the ‘know-how’ and experience of undertaking consultancy projects and servicing the local clients in Singapore and/or regionally
- Javascript (ES6+) or Typescript
- React/Vue/Angular 2+
- Rxjs, grapql, webpack, code splitting, react router, apollo, relay, BEM, OOCSS, ITCSS, using flex box, mobile site optimalization, page profiling, large scale app perfomance optimalizations
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Freelance Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a freelance architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for freelance architect
- Undertake UX research activities to help inform design decisions
- Create, plan, test, evaluate, and analyze prototypes using remote user testing tools
- Partner with development, creative, and product in agile workstreams
- Collaborate with cross functional members to understand scope and requirements to convert asks into thoughtful and complete UX artifacts
- Support development with detailed UX design specifications and support in the development lifecycle
- Present design and research findings to teammates and leadership
- Shadow sales calls and support in proposal development over time
- Facilitate “deep dive” interview calls with client stakeholders on key goals and challenges to inform and refine program design
- Using initial scoping requirements, create engaging and outcomes-driven learning experiences by leveraging innovative instructional design methods
- Partner with subject matter experts to design new content and contextualize existing content across digital fields to a given client’s context and industry
Qualifications for freelance architect
- Experience in retail design preferred
- Be skilled at working through ideas quickly in a 3D program (Sketchup, Rhino, of 3d studio)
- Be capable with AutoCAD, especially to quickly explore millwork designs, schematic details (including architectural details)
- Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop and InDesign are essential)
- Preferable have experience in millwork/furniture design
- Excited by working in a very fast-paced creative process
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Freelance Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of freelance architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for freelance architect
- Ability to transform user research into actionable user experience enhancements
- Solid skills with UX design and prototyping tools such as Axure, Sketch, Figma, or others
- Master’s Degree in Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Human-Computer Interaction or a related design or behavioral science discipline
- Experience with digital customer loyalty programs
- Experience in creating and facilitating workshops with cross functional partners
- Has at least 3 years of experience in instructional design and/or consulting
Qualifications for freelance architect
- Be comfortable expressing creative ideas through hand sketches
- Have the ability to clearly express ideas verbally to his/her manager
- Preferable to have experience building quick study models in foam/foam core
- Experience working as part of a creative team in a collaborative environment
- 3 years’ experience in a senior user experience designer, information architect, interaction designer or similar role
- A minimum of 2 years creating touch optimized app experiences (iOS and Android)