Author for the "Solution Architect" course

Yandex Practicum is an online education service where you can truly master an in-demand digital profession and find stable employment. Technology and a team of experts help you see it through to the end. We are expanding our line of Architecture courses and are looking for authors who, together with methodologists, editors, and illustrators, will create content for a new product.

What does an author do?

• Creates materials for new courses in a team with other authors, methodologists, editors, illustrators, and the program's product managers.
• Writes lesson texts that maintain student interest in learning.
• Improves existing content based on feedback from students, support experts, and editors.
• Develops additional materials (simulators, checklists, tests, cheat sheets, quizzes) and test assignments to check knowledge.
• Suggests ideas on how to improve material assimilation.

What do we expect from you?

• 7+ years in IT, including 3+ years in a Solution Architect role.
• Participation in major transformational projects: implementation of out-of-the-box solutions, infrastructure migration (on-premises → cloud, hybrid), legacy replacement, building scalable and reliable architectures with dozens of integrations.
• Experience in designing microservice and modular solutions, familiarity with DDD.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis and planning the transition from the current to the target state.
• Skills in applying trade-off analysis to justify technologies and architectural approaches.
• Experience in developing solutions considering business processes, goals, and the organization's strategy.
• Experience in selecting and applying integration patterns (sync/async, pub/sub, event-driven, orchestration vs choreography, etc.).
• Experience working with various integration tools: ESB, REST API, Kafka, MQ, ETL/ELT, iPaaS.
• Skills in gathering and aligning requirements with stakeholders.
• Skills in facilitating meetings and conducting dialogue with business, management, and tech teams.
• Skills in describing architecture for development teams and reasoned defense of solutions to clients and related departments.
• Knowledge of business architecture approaches: Business Capability Mapping, Value Stream Mapping.
• Experience using notations: C4, ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, IDEF0, EPC, ADR.
• Knowledge and application of enterprise architecture methodologies: TOGAF, DoDAF, Gartner-Meta, LEAF.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies, information security principles.

What do we offer?

• Remote collaboration, you only need to be available on messengers and sometimes on Zoom, from 10 hours per week.
• The opportunity to experiment and realize your potential: we trust your experience and do not waste each other's time and effort on micromanagement.
• A smooth onboarding into collaboration: we will introduce you to the course development tools and the team that will help transform your knowledge into an entire course.
• Portfolio building: we provide our experts with certificates of socially useful activities.
• The opportunity to write articles and participate in Yandex Practicum conferences, events, and podcasts.
• Monthly compensation: 9,600 rubles for 1 standard lesson