Job Title: Architect 

POSITION SUMMARY

The role assumes technical responsibility for a product or service on a software development team. You work across not only your team, but the organization ensuring correctness in design for large scale products and services. You anticipate business needs and apply technical expertise to drive architectural change that aligns with our long-term vision. You will contribute to architecture and development of enterprise system designs and development, and review team engineering practices for continuous improvement. You are responsible for providing technical guidance to our leadership team while also driving strategic projects throughout our enterprise.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The duties and responsibilities of this position consists of, but are not limited to, the following:

· Design solutions that align to the long-term plan for a service or product based on deep expertise and customer insights

· Partner with various engineering teams to create and manage a long-term architecture and execution roadmap for a product or service

· Review designs and implementation to ensure alignment with our long-term vision

· Drive architectural, enterprise change and influence strategic business initiatives

· Define interfaces and develop code for modules across products or services

· Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure; draw from a large base of design patterns, is an expert in available technologies, and is adept at identifying practices that work well

· Identify code across multiple code bases to optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment

· Lead code reviews across the product or service, understand the root causes of issues, and find ways to resolve them

· Apply technical expertise to solve problems and enable the team to deliver quality designs

· Develop and maintain thorough architectural documentation for the product or service

· Design products or services by using secure programming patterns and finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications

· Ensure security best practices are part of design and implementation of new features and applications

· Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work

· Assist in incubating new projects and technologies to enable the next wave of customer scenarios

· Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams through technical POC’s, shared frameworks, and desired best practices and patterns for software development, delivery, and management

· Ensure that teams across the organization have the appropriate engineering lifecycle that provides for task estimation,

design and code review, bug triage, code check-in, testing, and performance standards to meet customer and business goals.

· Collaborate across the organization to define new ways of thinking to improve quality, engineering excellence, and productivity.

· Tailor communication to a variety of audiences and perspectives and anticipate issues to prevent conflict.

· Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

· Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or other technology degree or minimum 4 years of equivalent work experience and high school diploma/GED

· Minimum 8 years of experience designing and driving implementation of large-scale software products or services that span multiple systems.

· Experience owning/driving the overall architecture and design of a product.

· Experience in leading an engineering squad from a technical standpoint where s/he is responsible for working with product to understand what/why problem we are solving and then doing the technical analysis and design, work breakdown and then work with team to determine assignments.

· Experience working with a product organization and a true product manager.

· Has a product mindset and is aligned around business outcomes for the systems s/he is working on.

· Experience with modern development languages (ex. Python, PHP, .Net CORE, C#)

· Experience with thin-client development (ex. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JS frameworks)

· Experience with database objects in relational databases (ex. MYSQL, MS SQL, Oracle) including schema design, stored procedure development and performance and optimization techniques.

· Experience with non-relational databases (ex. MongoDB, Elastic, Cosmos)

· Experience with microservice architecture, CQRS, event driven and eventually consistent system design patterns and system flows.

· Experience establishing testing patterns, acceptance testing criteria, and reviewing others’ automated tests.

· Experience with version control systems (ex. GIT, GitHub, TFS, etc.)

· Experience with CI/CD continuous integration / continuous deployment practices

· Experience building cloud native applications and services (ex. AWS, Azure, GCP)

· Experience with data streaming architecture and frameworks (Kafka, ESB)

Preferred:

· Experience working on large-scale open source or inner source software development.

· Experience in system integration projects or global projects

· Contributions to open-source projects, publicly available frameworks and/or patents

· Proven record of strong decision-making, conflict resolution, follow through and building technical relationships with senior executives.

· Ability to appreciate complex problems with a thorough design and collaborate with multiple partners on common goals.

· Proven track record of effectively delivering results in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities.

· Possess solid communication skills and strong customer focus.

· Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams.

· Experience directly or indirectly leading high performing teams with the ability to assess and grow software engineering talent.

· Values a diverse and inclusive work environment.