Principal Architect

Experience & Skills:

• 10+ years of web-development or solutions architecture experience
• Hands-on experience with end-to-end software development of complex multi-tiered systems
• Experience with multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of relevant architectural concepts
• Experience using system and process analysis
• Experience implementing large-scale technological enhancements or pivots, including pilot implementations and analysis
• Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies
• Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL.
• Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
• Experience building cloud-native applications
• Experience with API’s
• Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, Automation, identify opportunity of performance improvements, Able to transform traditional monolith architecture.
• Stack to modern microservices based loosely decoupled architecture.
• Experience in 2 or 3 of the following technology areas. Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing(AWS, Azure, GCP)
• A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in computer science or a related field

Role Responsibilities:

· Work with Senior level engineers, architects and platform owner to set the platform’s technical direction and strategic objectives.

· Align efforts with central architecture function to influence technical standards and progress enterprise objectives.

· Participate in design and code reviews to ensure both delivery of desired business outcomes and alignment to enterprise standards.

· Drive key architecture decisions to solve critical complex problems for assigned and adjacent platforms.

· Work with the company platform Owner and Senior architects to guide technical platform architecture and engineering teams.

· Focus on driving architecture towards long-term business unit/enterprise goals and objectives. Partner with business Leadership to influence priorities and objectives.

· Capture best practice knowledge from engineering and field teams and share reference architectures and patterns with technical teams.

· Network with peers on technical matters, design prototypes, system designs and enterprise-wide research projects.