Director of Quality Innovation

4 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Input Output (IOHK) Full time

As the Director of Software Architecture and Infrastructure at IOG, you lead the guild of architects. This guild regroups all Architecture Directors for IOG projects and programs, who report to you. IOHK is a research and development, innovation-driven company.
Your mission is to provide a long-term architectural vision at IOG that ensures collaboration, knowledge-sharing, interoperability, and reusability of specifications and implementations across IOG’s projects (Cardano, Atala, and others). You also have the responsibility for defining which support infrastructure (Cloud, On-Premise, and others) these projects will need to support, implement, and recommend.
You will lead a team of accomplished architects and engineers and be able to manage the uncertainties and ambiguities associated with working in a remote-first, distributed, decentralized environment. You will be responsible for hiring the Architecture Directors when the company funds new projects and initiatives.
Lead the chapter of Architects and manage Directors of architecture
# Hire the Director of architecture when IOG bootstraps new initiatives
# Recruit and build an outstanding team specifically dedicated to blockchain interoperability
# Ensure knowledge sharing between projects and teams
# Ensure that architectural work can be reused across projects as much as possible
# Define and implement best practices for architecture specifications
# Define recommendations for support infrastructure for our projects

# Align with the department of Formal Methods to ensure that best practices are followed for implementing formally verified architecture when beneficial
# Coordinate with the Applied Cryptography department to ensure that architectures are cryptographically secure and reuse state-of-the-art technologies
# Work closely with the Director of Engineering to make sure that architecture is implemented following software development best practices, coding, and quality guidelines
# Work closely with the Research Division to forecast the technologies to be integrated in future architecture
# Work closely with the Product Division to manage a backlog of features to be supported by the architecture
# Drive performance management conversations and develop shared, organization-level goals across IOG, driving results in common goals to keep team performance on-track and aligned with our high-quality standards

Open-minded and horizontal team management
# Ability to read, understand, and contribute to academic/research publications
# Ability to design and comprehend state-of-the-art blockchain architecture
# Vast knowledge and expertise in distributed systems engineering and blockchain systems architecture

PhD or Master in Computer Science
~5+ years in the crypto/blockchain industry
~Professional English

Flexible schedule
Remote work
Learning & Development opportunities
Competitive PTO
Medical Benefits
At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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