Principal Software Architect 

About Us 

At IHS Markit, we are building a software solution that connects data in revolutionary ways, illuminating answers that were previously impossible to find and empowering our clients to envision the future, so they can determine the best course of action in the present. We are disrupting the current digital transformation landscape with state-of-the-art AI developed by a passionate team explore and push the boundaries of digital transformation technologies.  

Our development team architect and design high-availability, scalable, and fault tolerant systems that are decoupled and easy-to-maintain. A core part of our development philosophy revolves around Microservices and the DevOps model. All our new products are developed using a microservice architecture, are containerized, and are then deployed on container management systems such as Kubernetes. The developers on our teams subscribe to a DevOps model where time-to-market functions as a vital measure of our performance, productivity, and success. We are committed to stay ahead of the curve and we are always looking at new technologies that can enhance our product offerings. 

Position Summary 

IHS Markit is seeking an experienced, driven, Principal Software Architect based in Denver, CO who will report to the Executive Director of Software Development for our currently unreleased digital transformation solution. This role will be responsible for Software Architecture as well as acting as a technical Agile Product Owner for our scrum teams. The candidate has experience with developing and deploying native cloud-based solutions, possesses a passion for container-based technologies, immutable infrastructure, and continuous delivery practices in deploying global commercial software. They also ensure that all development meets the required standards and follows industry best practices. As Principal Software Architect, you are also skilled in executing multiple programming languages and techniques across framework, API, and persistence layers by strategically deploying the right tool for the right job to address fast-paced business requirements. You are hands-on and committed to actively engaging with a global, agile delivery team. You will work closely with other architects, developer and business partners, within and across team boundaries to define and oversee implementation of the solution. You will present and communicate architecture and design decision from the architecture team to the Technology leaders and Executive team. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Provide thought leadership in technology direction, technical services, vendor partnership, and industry standards adoption. 

• Assume a leadership role in ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery of products through the entire application life cycle. 

• Serve as mentor and coach to technical delivery staff. 

• Promote knowledge sharing across product-development teams.  

• Maintain an excellent understanding of the business long term goals and strategy and ensures that designs are aligned with these. 

Education / Experience 

• Eight (8) or more years of increasing responsibility in technical roles, with 3 or more years of experience in guiding architecture for a development team. 

• Existing experience with container runtimes and container management systems such as Kubernetes. 

• Ability to work with wide variety of programing languages with exceptional understanding of the core project languages .Net and Java. 

• Experience architecting search solutions using search platforms such as Elastic, Solr and Lucene 

• Real-world experience providing technical leadership on Agile software development projects 

• Experience in Microservice architecture and development including REST based APIs. 

• Experience with NoSql design principles and WCS repositories such as Cassandra is highly desired. 

• Experience architecting software for high volume data ingestion using technologies such as Storm, Kafka and Redis. 

• Cloud experience with deploying and integrating cloud native applications with several providers 

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines 

• Ability to function well when working in somewhat ambiguous situations 

• Real-World experience architecting and developing SaaS/PaaS applications using C# .Net/Core 

• Strong, effective communication skills as to bring multiple personalities and cultures together to work towards a common goal