Associate Principal Engineer - Java Fullstack Developer

Company DescriptionWe are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!Job DescriptionThe Application Architect will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation organization.This leader will establish an end-to-end vision of the overall application design and provide technology leadership to the application architecture in terms of focus, technical direction, and breadth of coverage of relevant technologies.Role Responsibilities: Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and supportStrong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environmentAbility to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional unitsAbility to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level StrategyCreate the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core prioritiesLead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineeringManage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholdersDevelop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Business goalsManages an application architecture governance process develops, communicates and ensures adherence to architecture processes, principles, policies and standards for the enterprise.Review business drivers and strategies understands the implications to the application architecture and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions.Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of the architecture to objectives/drivers/goals. Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in application development and integration.Analyze the current IT ecosystem application architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements.Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future application architecture.Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform is deployed across the entire organization.Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend across organizational and functional lines.Develop and maintain IT ecosystem application architecture models, processes and documentation Innovate.Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture.Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes.Partners with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture, examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future.QualificationsA Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience.7+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems.Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C or C++ (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl). Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions.Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems.Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems.Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services.Deep knowledge of design patterns.Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux or other front-end frameworks. Full stack engineering experience.Originally posted on Himalayas

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