Software Architect (Remote)

Remote work is not available in the following States: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and W Virginia.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with product teams to create high level designs for given feature requests.

• Collaborate with application architects and product owners to create technical roadmaps in alignment with strategic plans and enterprise standards

• Exposes technology and organizational needs throughout the enterprise.

• Plays a significant role in technical, business, and organizational contributions affecting the teams.

• Solves technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for the given sub-department.

• Looks for innovation opportunities between several teams with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope.

• Proposes initial technical implementation which supports architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems.

• Ensures that OKR level goals are aligned across several teams in their sub-department.

• Guides conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration across teams.

• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your sub-department.

• Demonstrate technical excellence and consistency

Qualifications:

• S. in Computer Engineering or related field, or commensurate real-world engineering experience

• 5-7+ years of principle or senior engineer or related experience with demonstrated knowledge of software development and technical excellence

• 3-5+ years AWS experience, certification, or equivalent cloud certification

• Experienced with API Gateway, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Open Search, and Python

• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills

• Full understanding of the software development life cycle and agile practices

• Self-motivated individual that has excellent time management and organizational skills

• You are an avid learner and willing to evaluate and evangelize new technologies

• Strong cross-functional collaboration and relationship skills.

• Has a strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability delivering excellent work both at a team level and personal level

Essential Functions: This section is to outline the physical expectations of a job to ensure clear and fair hiring practices as well as to accommodate candidates with potential disabilities.

Skills:

• Proficient in Python, cloud infrastructure design and development

• Familiar with architecture principles such as composition, choreography, modulatory, scalability, performance, and maintainability

• Familiar MS Office, UML, and modeling tools

• Excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Powerful mentor, leader, and coach

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