About the CompanyArdmore Home Design (AHD), founded in 2008, is a privately-owned, fast-paced, entrepreneurial company where we value people with strong skills to make our products and processes better every day. We design, sell and distribute luxury home décor to interior designers as well as boutique/luxury retailers globally. The AHD family of wholesale brands includes Made Goods (flagship furniture made from unique materials); Pigeon & Poodle (home and bath accessories); Blue Pheasant (handcrafted tabletop products) and Burton James (seating home furnishing).
About the Role: We are seeking a highly skilled
Applications Architect with experience in Snowflake and MS SQL to design, develop, and optimize applications that enhance and automate key business processes. In this hands-on role, you will collaborate closely with project management and data architecture teams, focusing on re-engineering and refactoring existing code to improve simplicity, efficiency, and performance. The ideal candidate will be able to work independently as well as part of a team and possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills. This individual embraces and supports our in-person/on-site work culture and
embodies our company values of Ownership, Collaboration and Respect.
What You'll Do:- Application Development: Build, enhance, and architect internal web applications using Microsoft .NET technologies, focusing on automating and streamlining business processes to support better decision-making and faster response times across the organization.
- Stakeholder Communication: Effectively communicate with internal business stakeholders, ranging from end-users to senior management, ensuring clear understanding and expectation-setting.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to assess needs, propose solutions, and implement enhancements, while aligning with project goals and deadlines.
- Software Design: Architect software solutions that are scalable, reliable, and performance-driven, with a focus on long-term maintainability.
- Database Expertise: Utilize Snowflake and MS SQL databases for design, query optimization, and performance tuning, ensuring data integrity and high availability.
- Refactoring & Optimization: Re-engineer and refactor existing code bases, making them more efficient, scalable, and high-performing while simplifying complex processes.
- Best Practices: Drive improvements in software engineering practices, ensuring clean, efficient, and maintainable code across all projects.
- CI/CD Processes: Understand and work with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes to streamline development and deployment.
- Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of junior developers by providing guidance, advice, and coaching, fostering their professional growth and enhancing team performance.
- System Enhancement: Implement and enhance existing systems with new technologies, ensuring that they remain up-to-date and continue to meet business needs.
- Troubleshooting & Attention to Detail: Apply excellent troubleshooting skills to identify and resolve issues, while maintaining a strong attention to detail to ensure system stability and performance.
Requirements
- Experience: 6+ years of relevant development experience or equivalent qualification in Computer Science, MIS, or a related field.
- Independence and Teamwork: Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision but also thrives in a team-oriented environment.
- Proficiency in .NET: Experience with Microsoft .NET development (C#, Web Forms) using Visual Studio, along with knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, XML, and Web Services.
- Snowflake Expertise: Experience with Snowflake as a data platform, including data warehouse architecture, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- MS SQL Expertise: Strong proficiency with MS SQL, including database design, query optimization, normalization, and performance improvements.
- Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Strong ability to troubleshoot, think outside the box, and identify opportunities for process improvement.
- Re-engineering & Refactoring: Demonstrated experience in re-engineering and refactoring code to improve simplicity, efficiency, and overall performance.
- Team Leadership: Ability to lead and mentor junior developers, providing guidance, advice, and coaching to elevate their skills and team performance.
- Organizational Skills: Capable of managing multiple projects with excellent time management and communication skills.
- CI/CD Understanding:Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) to ensure smooth and efficient development cycles.
- Attention to Detail: Excellent troubleshooting abilities and attention to detail, ensuring high-quality and reliable software solutions.
Ideal Candidate Profile:- Self-starter with a proactive approach to solving problems and improving systems.
- Experience in both independent work environments and collaborative team settings.
- Passionate about technology, with a focus on delivering high-performance, efficient code.
- Comfortable with communicating and aligning with stakeholders at all levels, from end-users to C-suite.
Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that are required by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; as well as reach with hands and arms. • The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. • Ability to work in open environment with fluctuating temperatures and standard lighting.• Ability to work on computer and mobile phone for multiple hours; with frequent interruptions.• Required to use stairwells to attend meetings and engage with employees on multiple floors throughout building.
Other Considerations: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the role.
Compensation: Starting annual salary: $145,000-165,000. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
