Associate Director - Enterprise Architect - HR Tech Startup

Your Role

Your role will be to leverage modern, cloud-agnostic, microservice architectural design principles to build a highly scalable services & data platform to support diverse functions-as-a-service.

- Lead a team of highly skilled architects and Principal Engineers to define architecture direction and roadmap for all products

- Deploy and maintain highly scalable cloud-native microservices architectures.

- Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.

- Stand-up infrastructures locally or in the cloud to quickly compare alternative architectures and recommend approaches that best balance competing tradeoffs.

- Evaluate and recommend comparable alternative cloud services on a variety of technical and cost-based factors to best meet project goals.

Required Skills

- Demonstrated ability to provide technology leadership to a diverse, remote engineering team.

- Full understanding of microservice architecture, experience creating and managing production microservice application architectures at large scale.

- Strong knowledge of software development and cloud computing fundamentals.

- Extensive experience building complex solutions combining multiple AWS / Azure services- Lambda, Azure Functions, Kinesis, Event Hub, Event Grid, Service Bus, S3, Azure Blob, ElasticSearch, Kibana, CloudFormation, Resource Manager etc., with an eye to balancing cost and efficiency.

- Deep knowledge of REST API semantics and common authentication models like OAUTH2.

- Strong relational database skills- designing schemas, coding, analyzing, tuning, and optimizing complex SQL queries.

- Strong experience working with data stores including SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.), Key-Value (Redis), Elasticsearch/Lucene etc.

- Experience creating and managing complex, stateful Kubernetes architectures in production.

- Experience using public cloud container orchestration systems (AWS/Azure/GCP).

- Experience creating and managing scalable, production grade streaming compute clusters (Kafka/Flink/Spark).

- Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, deploying and supporting event-driven function-as-a-service frameworks.

- Demonstrated ability to deliver effective solutions to complex problems independently, having resolved a wide range of issues in creative ways.

- Demonstrated good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions and have successfully led other engineers to implement those solutions.

- Effective communication skills - both written and spoken.

Preferred Skills

- Strong experience with continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring.

- Knowledge of security best practices.

- Multilingual fluency in at least a few of- bash, Python, Java, Scala, Ruby, PHP, C, node.js, React.

- Exposure to ETL architectures, data movement technologies, data integration solutions, and business information systems.

- Excellent communication and documentation skills, with experience with at least one architecture documentation framework (arc42, SA4D/C4, SEI - Views and Beyond, etc.)

- Experience with business process and performance modeling, benchmarking, and financial analysis.

- Certifications- TOGAF, Open CA, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, CISSIP-ISSAP.

Your Education and Experience

- 18+ years related work experience in at least 3 IT disciplines (technical architecture, solution/application architecture, application development, middleware design).

- 3+ years leading a team of architects and owning end-to-end architecture for large scale products.

- 5+ years architecting enterprise services-based distributed systems and data intensive solutions.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.