Full-Time Principal Application Architect

As the Principal Application Architect, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Be responsible for end-to-end system architecture's integrity, cohesion, and evolution.
• Recognize and make trade-offs concerning the whole architecture.
• Identify deep-rooted, systemic issues within the stack and lead long-term initiatives to address them.
• Ensure the delivery of large systems involving several teams' contributions.
• Debug and analyze the root cause of problems involving multiple components across the organization.
• Help develop a multi-year technology strategy for critical business areas encompassing multiple systems and departments.
• Be a multiplier by building systems, developing tools, or introducing policies or patterns that raise the entire organization's productivity level.
• Break down complex problems that impact the entire architecture into potential solutions and knowns/unknowns to build momentum toward change.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to roll out large technical initiatives and improvements across the entire engineering department to evaluate the success while looking for longer-term gains.
• Present engineering's most significant issues to company leadership with compelling evidence and a detailed backlog of the problems and potential solutions to explore.
• Present technical architecture practices and hold training sessions.
• Communicate a clear vision supported by guidelines for sound architecture and best practices across the company.
• Schedule and participate in architecture reviews and, when appropriate, in code reviews to provide actionable feedback.
• Drive initiatives for teaching, sponsoring, and coaching and increase collaboration with engineers of all backgrounds.

Your background:

• 10+ years of professional development experience designing software and systems.
• 10+ years of experience designing and developing services and systems that are deployed to AWS.
• 5+ years of experience leading the software architectural decisions of an organization through the introduction of templates, frameworks, workshops, and public presentations.
• Advanced knowledge of Java, Python, JavaScript, and HCL.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and their incorporation into the SDLC.
• Experience developing event-driven architecture applications using Apache Flink.
• Familiarity with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Terraform Cloud, Jira, and Agile methodologies.

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