Principal Architect - Online/eCommerce

Job Description :

We believe work is not a place, but rather a thing you do. Our technology revolves around this core philosophy. We are relentlessly committed to helping people work and play from anywhere, on any device. Innovation, creativity and a passion for ever-improving performance drive our company and our people forward. We empower the original mobile device : YOU!

Principal architect is someone passionate to build large scale enterprise applications. A strong drive of the team will be on standardization via adoption of services, resiliency in designs to meet stated recovery objectives, and address performance, scalability, security and data protection objectives. The expectation is deep engagement direct with application development teams and specifically lead application architects on key initiatives.

This role is to be the Architect in India, and the principal senior technical interface point for all the business areas inside India. This is a senior position with the expectation of broad and deep technology skills across a range of disciplines, plus a deep specialism were the individual is regarded as a thought leader.

The principal architect is accountable for the development of cost effective end to end technical solutions, and is the single design authority for the prescribed solution. Working in partnership with the technical service areas as needed, external vendors and project management team as required. There is implicit accountability for the solution working as designed.

As a Full Stack Architect you must have knowledge in all stages of software development and

You'll be working alongside other engineers and developers, collaborating on the various layers of the infrastructure for our platform and applications which span across products like Workspace, Endpoint Management etc.

Core Level Qualifications : Education: B.Tech or M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent.

Experience : Hands on experience of at least 7+ years of software development lifecycle

Responsibilities :

- Partnering with senior Architects with Product Development teams to understand functional requirements of a given project/application and business area.

- Understanding fundamental technical standard solution gaps, which are legitimate and which have biggest ROI to fix and influencing them to make the fixes

- Arranging and monitoring a solution to completion and ensuring project setup across the product for success

- Maintaining an effective technical network across the firm, knowing the - Go-To- SMEs in multiple service areas

- Developing an effective network of senior Architects within 1 or more major Business Areas

- Design and develop advanced applications for multiple platforms

- Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

- Help enhance and Maintain coding standards/process.

What are the key characteristics that would make you an ideal candidate :

- Deep understanding of technology offerings, strategies, prices and which would be a good fit for a given circumstance.

- Strong software Development skills and experience :

i. Conversation with Software Dev tool-chain and Continuous Deployment paradigm

ii. Deep Experience with any Cloud provider (AWS, Azure, - )

iii. Strong Software Architecture knowledge such as Shared nothing, twelve factor design, cloud native apps

iv. Strong Understanding of API creation, management, scalability and maturity concerns at scale

v. Deep/High level knowledge of Cassandara, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka technologies

- Highly experienced with back-end and server side programming languages like PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, and .Net

- Proficient experience using advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS, NodeJS, ExpressJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, jQuery etc.

- Database technologies like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

- Web server technologies like Node.js, J2EE, Apache, Nginx, ISS, etc.

- Development experience for both mobile and desktop.

- Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications.

- Web fundamentals like HTML, JavaScript, AJAX and CSS

- Responsive Mobile Apps (Ionic, PhoneGap etc)

- Have a strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive

- Experience with Agile development methodology (preferably scrum), continuous integration and tools (GIT, JIRA etc.) used to achieve the same

- Drive and willingness to go the extra mile with a strong work ethic