WHO ARE YOU?

You are a hands-on engineer and architect who enjoys contributing and inspiring others to build world-class architectures. You must be passionate about best-of-breed platforms and processes and be comfortable and experienced influencing and leading other technology professional across a broad spectrum. You will work across the entire technology organization and partner with other leaders in software development, operations, security, and product management. You will be part of both evolving our current products and platforms and be part of breaking ground on our next generation platform in a service-oriented architecture based on native public cloud services.

WHAT YOU OFFER

Our ideal candidates will be able to:

• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and product management leaders on the high-level scoping and prioritization of roadmaps.
• Lead the architecture definition and implementation across multiple teams without a direct reporting relationship. Enjoy the opportunity to contribute in a hands-on capacity.
• Define architectural, tooling, and process standards at the enterprise architecture level; solicit input from all technology teams and find the balance between convergence over time vs. empowered teams operating independently.
• Assist in evolving existing architectures on both Java and .NET stacks, help teams with major platform/framework upgrades and other legacy platform improvements.
• Collaborate across development and operations teams and ensure that architectures are generally following the principles of AWS’ Well-architected Framework. Provide guidance on cloud best practices and selection and use of AWS services.
• Assist development teams in designing and implementing cloud-based architectures in AWS, as well as in migrating legacy architectures to AWS.
• Act as a thought and practice leader when it comes to software design methodologies, such as domain-driven design – assist development teams in advancing in their development processes.
• Provide best practice guidance across a broad set of engineering practices such as design reviews, coding standards/reviews, test automation, CI/CD, etc.
• Assist security and project teams on ensuring systems confirm to process and security standards such as PCI and SOC.
• Assist in technology platform and vendor evaluations.
• Become part of a diverse technology leadership team across several locations and integrating products on diverse platforms. Working closely with senior leaders and executives. Speak your mind and contribute to moving a diverse group forward.

Qualifications and Skills:

• 10+ years’ experience as a lead/senior engineer designing and developing software in a distributed systems architecture required
• 3+ years’ experience as an architect preferred
• Exceptional communication skills required, ability to influence people without direct authority.
• Extensive experience with AWS (such as EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Code Pipeline/Deploy) required
• Experience with private hosting and co-location datacenters required, incl. compute, storage, and networking
• Experience with CI/CD, build pipelines, source control systems, containers, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, Git/GitHub)
• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices for internal and external use with C#, Java, and Ruby
• Experience with front-end frameworks such as Angular and React
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium.
• Experience with Agile processes in a structured setting required; Scrum and/or Kanban.
• Experience with security and compliance standards such as PCI and SOC as well a data privacy/protection standards a plus
• Experience and passion for developing and releasing products – from inception to delivery and ongoing maintenance.
• Experience using data for decision-making related to team and system performance, rely heavily on telemetry and monitoring.
• Experience with working closely with Product Management teams to drive roadmap features and releases across multiple teams.
• MS in Computer Science or related field preferred.