Principal - IT Architecture

As a Senior Software Architect at our organization, you will be responsible for owning the software architecture vision, principles, and technology standards across the organization. Working closely with engineering leadership and product management, you will craft roadmaps and success criteria to ensure alignment with the wider target architecture. Your primary responsibilities will include developing and leading the architectural model for a unit, directing and leading teams, and designing interaction points between application components and applications. You will be required to evaluate and recommend toolsets, standardize the use of third-party components and libraries, and facilitate developers to understand business and functional requirements. Additionally, you will periodically review scalability and resiliency of application components, recommend steps for refinement and improvement, and enable reusable components to be shared across the enterprise. In this role, you will devise technology and architecture solutions that propel engineering excellence across the organization, simplify complex problems, and address key aspects such as portability, usability, scalability, and security. You will also extend your influence across the organization, leading distributed teams to make strong architecture decisions independently through documentation, mentorship, and training. Moreover, you will be responsible for driving engineering architecture definition using multi-disciplinary knowledge, including cloud engineering, middleware engineering, data engineering, and security engineering. Understanding how to apply Agile, Lean, and principles of fast flow to drive engineering department efficiency and productivity will be essential. You will provide and oversee high-level estimates for scoping large features utilizing Wideband Delphi and actively participate in the engineering process to evolve an Architecture practice to support the department. To excel in this role, you should have the ability to depict technical information conceptually, logically, and visually, along with a strong customer and business focus. Your leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills will play a crucial role in influencing and retaining composure under pressure in environments of rapid change. A forward-thinking mindset to keep the technology modern for value delivery will be key. In terms of qualifications, you should have a minimum of 10 years of software engineering experience, primarily in back-end or full-stack development, and at least 5 years of experience as a Software Senior Architect or Principal Architect using microservices. Experience in a Lean Agile development environment, deep understanding of event-driven architectures, and knowledge of REST, gRPC, and GraphQL architecture are required. Extensive background in Public Cloud platforms, modular Java Script frameworks, databases, caching solutions, and search technologies is also essential. Additionally, strong skills in containerization, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Service Mesh, as well as the ability to articulate an architecture or technical design concept, are desired for this role.,