Job responsibilities
- Provides technical system designs, standards, patterns, and reference architectures covering public cloud, on-prem, and hybrid.
- Participates and drive architecture reviews across a diverse technical and geographically distributed landscape.
- Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices.
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical partners.
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- 3+ years experience in a technical architecture or related role.
- Hands-on experience delivering, optimizing, and modernizing complex distributed systems low-latency systems.
- Advanced design and development experience with various data technologies including NoSQL, distributed caching, RDBMS, messaging, and streaming.
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
- Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge and experience across multiple architectural patterns.
- Ability to decompose design and functionality problems spanning engineering and architecture domains independently into concrete plans with little to no oversight.
- Ability to quickly understand complex systems and provide pragmatic and actionable recommendations, solutions, etc.
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Design and development experience of modern systems from the backend to the UI.
- Advanced knowledge of Java or JVM oriented languages.
- Experience with CockroachDB or similar distributed SQL databases
- Experience building applications making use of Kubernetes native features.
- Formal training or certification including public cloud and infrastructure as code.