Principal Platform Engineer, Data Architect

Summary

Join Coupa as a Principal Platform Engineer/Data Architect, a highly influential technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the organization's data platform and architecture. You will lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for Coupa's application platform, build expertise in the Coupa application suite, and adhere to iterative development processes. This role requires collaboration with various teams to align data strategies with business goals and providing technical guidance and mentorship. Coupa offers a collaborative culture, pioneering technology, and the opportunity to make a global impact. The position offers competitive salary based on experience and location.

Requirements

• 5+ years of system implementation experience in a large IT organization with large, complex projects
• 5+ years of experience developing business applications or frameworks
• 3+ years defining high-level design for one or more business domains
• 3+ years of experience interpreting and predicting outcomes of existing business processes and current technology solutions
• Broad knowledge of middleware/application integration products
• Demonstrated proficiency in understanding and executing enterprise architecture and software development life cycle methodologies
• Experience with architecting third-party developer frameworks
• Experience with designing for an enterprise multi-tenant system
• Experience developing with containers, micro-services and message queues
• Experience with refactoring and modularizing legacy applications
• Experience designing solutions with heterogeneous technology stacks
• Dealt with database performance issues and query optimization in MySQL

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities of the Coupa Application Platform
• Build solid expertise of the entire Coupa application suite and leverage this knowledge to better design application and data frameworks
• Adhere to Coupa iterative development processes to deliver concrete value each release while driving longer term technical vision
• Wide knowledge of architecture standards and patterns, a passion for advocating their correct usage and excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Document the solutions leveraging existing standards and create new templates where required; present them to project-specific governing bodies for review and approval. Consulting skills are imperative to gain consensus on solutions proposed
• Work alongside Engineering and Product leadership teams to review and/or create the feature designs for the major releases and also participate in defect analysis for maintenance releases to ensure the robust functional resolution to the customer-facing issues
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers
• Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment

Preferred Qualifications

Prefer Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience