Associate Principal Engineer - Application Architect

Summary

Join our Digital Product Engineering company as an Application Architect and play a pivotal role in software development and long-term planning within the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. Establish an end-to-end vision for application design, providing technology leadership and direction. Lead and mentor a team of engineers, building and supporting digital products and services. Collaborate with executives and stakeholders, managing risks and escalations. Develop and communicate architecture strategies, processes, and standards, ensuring alignment with business goals. Analyze the current IT ecosystem, identifying weaknesses and opportunities for improvement. Define and oversee the evolution of application architecture across the organization, integrating systems and identifying emerging technologies. Contribute to proof of concepts and build a comprehensive reference architecture.

Requirements

• Must have Skills: Architecture (Strong), Cloud architecture (Strong)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience
• 7+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Working knowledge of programming languages beyond- C#, Java, C or C++ (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl)
• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience throughout cloud-native distributed systems
• Experience implementing and consuming large scale web services
• Deep knowledge of design patterns
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux or other front-end frameworks
• Full stack engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment
• Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units
• Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level Strategy
• Create the vision and guides a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities
• Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers
• Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
• Manage and appropriately escalates delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
• Develop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Business goals
• Manage an application architecture governance process
• Develop, communicate and ensure adherence to architecture processes, principles, policies and standards for the enterprise
• Review business drivers and strategies, understanding the implications to the application architecture and identifying/mitigating risks to solutions
• Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of the architecture to objectives/drivers/goals
• Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in application, development and integration
• Analyze the current IT ecosystem application architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements
• Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future application architecture
• Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform is deployed across the entire organization
• Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend across organizational and functional lines
• Develop and maintain IT ecosystem application architecture models, processes and documentation
• Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture
• Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes
• Partner with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture
• Examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future

Preferred Qualifications

• Good To Have Skills: Java (Expert), Microservices architecture (MSA) Capable
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
• Strong understanding of SAP ERP implementations with data schemas involved
• O9 experience
• Net Revenue Management experience
• Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
• Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities
• Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization
• Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment
• Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units
• Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level