Principal Solutions Architect

We're in search of a dynamic Principal Solution Architect to join our team, someone who excels as a collaborative team player and is poised to shape and innovate within this crucial role. As the Principal Solution Architect, you'll report directly to the Director of Global Architecture and lead our solution architecture team, providing crucial support for product development initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing microservices-based solutions and prototypes.
• Analyzing and innovating the technological environment.
• Communicating and advising internal partners to develop appropriate solutions.
• Leading brainstorming sessions to develop potential solutions for business needs or problems.
• Generating technical documents and solution designs, models, diagrams, and standards for the development team.
• Designing and building function-centric solutions for microservices architectures, micro front-end services and mobile solutions.
• Defining and refactoring multi-channel client architecture offering and providing differentiated end-user experiences by leveraging containerization and cloud technology.
• Outlining the governance and microservices development guiding principles as well as ensuring patterns, standards and best practices are followed by the development teams.
• Work closely with an agile, scrum-based team to understand the HR business domain and client requirements that drive analysis, architecture/design, and development of quality technical solutions and deliverables. These solutions cross a broad spectrum of technologies and must align with business and IT strategies and stay in sync with the organization's architectural and security standards.
• Governing DevOps methodologies, and ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security by design, scalability, maintainability, cost minimization and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.
• Participating in coordinated planning sessions and provide effort estimates for business initiatives of IT solutions and roadmaps.
• Remaining abreast of industry technical trends and new developments to maintain current skills and remain current with industry standards.
• Have previous experience leading others, both inside and outside of Architecture and comfortable directing and mentoring junior staff.

About You

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience and 10+ years of technical experience in architecture development, integration of front and backend systems, and development. Hands-on experience developing applications.
• Deep knowledge of SOA, Architecture, and Design on Microservices, REST Services Development and API Design.
• Experience with containerization and cloud technologies (eg. OpenShift, Kubernetes, Dockers, Mesos, AWS) as well as DevOps and testing tools (Git, SVN, TFS, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Nexus, Selenium, SonarQube).
• Experience with cloud-based, CI/CD, or DevOps development environments.
• A strong hands-on development track record building integration and applications using a variety of technologies, development tools, and database systems.
• Extensive experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean).
• Experience working with Azure SQL, MongoDB and Databricks is a nice to have.
• Good communication skills both in writing and verbally with the ability to present complex ideas or technical solutions to business and/or management team in addition to explaining things in detail to the development teams.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills for the design, creation, and testing of programs.
• Interpersonal skills to work effectively with Scrum team members, support personnel, vendors, and clients.
• Ability to work independently as a Leader and as part of a team. Ability to manage a team of Solution Architects across a broad range of products and technologies.

What We Value

• You have proven ability to create architecture designs.
• You are happy to mentor data engineering teams, developers and architects.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You have a passionfor technology and for learning/ teaching.
• You possess analytical skills, have a problem-solving attitude and a product and data driven mindset.