Full-Time Senior Principal Architect - Cloud Engineering

The Senior Principal Architect (“SPA”) will own the overall architecture accountability for one or more portfolios within IFS Technology. The role of the SPA is to build and develop the technology strategy, while growing, leading, and energising multi-faceted technical teams to design and deliver technical solutions that deliver IFS technology needs and are supported by excellent data, methodology, systems and processes. The role will work with a broad set of stakeholders including product managers, engineers, and various R&D and business leaders. The occupant of this role diagnoses and solves significant, complex and non-routine problems; translates practices from other markets, countries and industries; provides authoritative, technical recommendations which have a significant impact on business performance in short and medium term; and contributes to company standards and procedures, including the IFS Technical Reference Architecture. This role actively identifies new approaches that enhance and simplify where possible complexities in the IFS suite. The SPA represents IFS as the authority in one or technology areas or portfolios and acts as a role model to develop experts within this area.

What is the role?

• Build, nurture and grow high performance engineering teams using Agile Engineering principles.
• Provide technical leadership for design and development of software meeting functional & nonfunctional requirements.
• Provide multi-horizon technology thinking to broad portfolios and platforms in line with desired business needs.
• Adopt a hands-on approach to develop the architecture runway for teams.
• Set technical agenda closely with the Product and Program Managers
• Ensure maintainability, security and performance in software components developed using well-established engineering/architectural principles.
• Ensure software quality complying with shift left quality principles.  
• Conduct peer reviews & provide feedback ensuring quality standards.
• Engage with requirement owners and liaise with other stakeholders.
• Contribute to improvements in IFS products & services.

What do we need from you? 

It’s your excellent influencing and communication skills that will really make the difference. Entrepreneurship and resilience will be required, to help drive and shape the technology strategy. You will need technical, operational, and commercial breadth to deliver a strategic technical vision alongside a robust, secure and cost-effective delivery platform and operational model.

• Seasoned Leader with 15+ years of hands-on experience in Design, Development and Implementation of scalable cloud-based web and mobile applications.
• Have strong software architectural, technical design and programming skills.
• Experience in Application Security, Scalability and Performance.
• Ability to envision the big picture and work on details. 
• Can articulate technology vision and delivery strategy in a way that is understandable to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to learn and adapt different technologies/work environments.
• Knowledge of and skilled in various tools, languages, frameworks and cloud technologies with the ability to be hands-on where needed:
  • Programming languages - C++, C#, GoLang, Python, JavaScript and Java
  • JavaScript frameworks - Angular, Node and React JS, etc.,
  • Back-end frameworks - .NET, GoLang, etc.,
  • Middleware – REST, GraphQL, GRPC,
  • Databases - Oracle, Mongo DB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL etc.
  • Azure and Amazon cloud services. Proven experience in building cloud-native apps on either or both cloud platforms
  • Kubernetes and Docker containerization
  • CI/CD tools - Circle CI, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Tekton
• Hands on experience in OOP concepts and design principles.
• Good to have:
  • Knowledge of cloud-native big data tools (Hadoop, Spark, Argo, Airflow) and data science frameworks (PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, NumPy)
  • Exposure to ERP application development is advantageous.
• Excellent communication and multi-tasking skills along with an innovative mindset.