Yes, Canopus Consulting is looking for top-notch architects to join us.

Architecture and design is neither a process nor delivery related work that can be put into a manual, instead it tends to be deeply involved work from a conceptual and technical perspective. Doing architecture is in reality a problem solving exercise – it is not a methodology, or a set of algorithms. It is a craft which has to be learned on the job – and we invite you to join us on this journey. Whether you are an established architect, or aspiring to be one, we would like to hear from you.

At Canopus, we have already carved a niche for ourselves. We are redefining how Software Architecture is practiced in India, at par with the world. We work with latest standards, techniques and frameworks in this space, following the latest global trends and applying them and contributing back. Our work on Supportability Framework, which is codified experience of over a decade was recently published at the 9th Working IEEE/IFP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2011).

We are pushing the frontiers across a few selected areas. On one side of the spectrum is semantic web and cloud based systems and technologies, and on the other is real-time embedded systems. For example, we are working on very large scale collaborative content management system, designing the ontological foundation and working with technologies such as RDF/OWL, non-relational databases and SPARQL. In the cloud space, we worked with Amazon EC2, Salesforce.com and creating mashups with Google services. In real-time systems, we are working with data driven systems, real-time streaming, CEP and technologies such as OMG-DDS.

We firmly believe that it is important for us to reflect upon our experiences and give back to the scholastic community. We spend nearly one third of our time in pursuing research in the areas we are working, publishing our experiences and insights across various fora and teaching. We actively work with IIT Kanpur and IIIT Hyderabad and have conducted courses at these institutions.

We are currently inviting:

• Experienced Architects, with 14+ years of experience in designing and building large scale enterprise systems. You should have experience across multiple platforms such as Java, .Net, C++, LAMP stack and Drupal. Exposure to Semantic technologies, RDF/OWL and SPARQL, or cloud based systems will be an advantage. Experience with deployment architectures, hardware sizing, large scale database architectures (such as Oracle RAC) is desirable.

• Budding Architects, tech leads and senior engineers with 6-9 years of experience, aspiring to become a top-notch architect. You should be a polyglot programmer, with hands-on programming experience across platforms such as Java, .Net, C++ and PHP. You should be a super-expert in frameworks like N/Hibernate, LINQ, Spring/.Net and Web Services and you should understand UML like the back of your hand and be an expert in modeling.

At Canopus, all of us have a passion for teaching and an insatiable appetite for learning, and we expect you to possess the same. Write to us at invitations@canopusconsulting.com, along with your profile in PDF format.