Principal/Senior Principal Architect : DevOps - Cloud Engineering (R&D)

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

The Principal/Senior Principal Architect (“SPA”) within Cloud Engineering will own the overall architecture accountability for one or more specialist areas within the overa portfolio of the team. The role of the SPA is to design and communicate complex pipelines and assocuated capabilities to deliver a whole range of IFS capability to our customers as SaaS.

The SPA will work with a broad set of stakeholders including product managers, engineering leaders, program managers and dev ops engineers.

The occupant of this role diagnoses and solves significant, complex and non-routine problems; translates practices from other markets, countries and industries; provides authoritative, technical recommendations which have a significant impact on business performance in short and medium term; and contributes to company standards and procedures, including the IFS Technical Reference Architecture.

This role actively identifies new approaches that enhance and simplify where possible complexities in the IFS suite. The SPA represents IFS as the authority in one or more technology areas or portfolios and acts as a role model to develop experts within this area.

What is the role?

• Provide technical leadership for design and development of software and in particular automated deployment pipelines to meet functional & nonfunctional requirements
• Adopt a hands-on approach to design and implement the architecture runway for teams
• Set the technical agenda working closely with the Engineering and Product Management leadership
• Ensure maintainability, security and performance in any and all components by applying well-established engineering/architectural principles
• Ensure software quality complying with shift left quality principles
• Conduct peer reviews & provide feedback ensuring quality standards
• Engage with requirement owners and liaise with other stakeholders
• Contribute to improvements in IFS products & services
• Provide multi-horizon technology thinking to broad portfolios and platforms in line with desired business needs.

Qualifications

What do we need from you? 

It’s your excellent influencing and communication skills that will really make the difference. Entrepreneurship and resilience will be required, to help drive and shape the technology strategy. You will need technical, operational, and commercial breadth to deliver a strategic technical vision alongside a robust, secure and cost-effective delivery platform and operational model.

• Seasoned Leader with 15+ years of hands-on experience with latter day experience of architecting large scale automated deployment pipelines to deliver product capabilities to customers with a great emphasis on self service.
• Have strong cloud architecture, technical design and programming skills.
• Experience in Application Security, Scalability and Performance.
• Ability to envision the big picture and work on details. 
• Can articulate technology vision and delivery strategy in a way that is understandable to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to learn and adapt different technologies/work environments.
• Knowledge of and skilled in various tools, languages, frameworks and cloud technologies with the ability to be hands-on where needed:
  • Deep expereince with Azure is preferred although relevant experience with other hyperscale clouds will be considered
  • CI/CD tooling Gitlab, Github, Tekton,
  • GitOps tooling ArgoCD together with Crossplane
  • Databases - Oracle, Mongo DB, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL
  • Demonsrable experience in building cloud-native software
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker containerization
• Hands on experience in OOP concepts and design principles.
• Good to have:
  • Knowledge of cloud-native big data tools (Hadoop, Spark, Argo, Airflow) and with any data science frameworks 
  • Exposure to ERP application development is advantageous but not essential
• Excellent communication and multi-tasking skills along with an innovative mindset.

Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.