Principal Architect

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The Job Details are as follows:

The Principal Architect leads our technology journey into a hybrid cloud. This role will work with senior technology and business leaders charting the next-generation architecture for applications, deliver new service prototypes, and join the engineering leadership team for a group of more than 100 engineers. This role is core to shifting to a modern microservices approach spanning both on-premises and cloud deployments. You need to be both highly technical and a culture leader, marshalling teams behind decisions and establishing new norms.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will create a hybrid cloud strategy and oversee its adoption from the frontlines of development. Your approach will rely upon modern, innovative application standards, and lean heavily into microservices.
• You will champion continuous delivery, assisting teams through the transition to a rapid deployment model. Both design and building pipelines is part of this role, but also educating teams on the reasons why we need them.
• You will propose, share, and refine best practices on how to optimize cloud presence, performance, security, and cost.
• You will design both new applications and build transition approaches for existing ones. Architectural reviews, hands-on refactoring of stacks alongside the teams, and shaping infrastructure transitions are ways you'll help bring the company forward.
• You will advance and refine our use of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and link it to our success in the CI/CD space. Everything we build must be automated as much as possible regardless of the destination.
• You won't settle for the current state. You're here to be a change agent, and you bring the energy and sophistication necessary to see hard transitions through to success. You won't wait around for others, you will proactively seek out clarifications, problems, and misunderstandings. You want to lead, not be led.

Reporting Relationships: Reporting directly to the Executive Director leading the Academic & Framework Services Organization

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Typically requires a bachelor's or master's degree (or international equivalent).

Experience, Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:

• 5+ years of cloud computing architecture experience
  • Direct knowledge and experience with AWS ecosystem are a strong plus
  • Deep understanding of cloud security best practices is a strong plus
  • Expertise with large-scale multi-tenant cloud and hybrid cloud systems
• Expert in microservices approaches used to deconstruct monolithic applications
• 5+ years of designing and delivering containerized applications
  • Expert at infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• 15+ years of experience writing, deploying, and running software
  • Expert coding skills in a modern development language (Java, C#, C++, node.js)
  • Experience with more than one language a strong plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong inter-personal skills.
• Possess strong understanding of modern application architecture modeling tools and standards, ETL tools, relational databases, NoSQL databases, and big data technologies (e.g., Postgres, MSSQL, Mongo, DynamoDB, Hadoop/Cassandra).