Software Architect

Who are we?

Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our approximately 30,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.89 billion in fiscal 2023.

In one sentence

In charge of the architectural roadmap, provides architecture solutions during the software development lifecycle and performs sophisticated software engineering tasks.

What will your job look like?

Role Description & Key responsibilities:

• Creates the high-level software design and dictates technical standards including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.
• Responsible to build or define correct  processes to establish non functional governance of Data Solution ( including Monitoring , performance, cost optimization, SLA compliance, security, scalability, Logging)
• Interacting with a variety of internal and external stakeholders: presale leads, customer IT & business managers, Amdocs customer-facing managers, project managers R&D managers, procurement, IT, 3rd party Software support teams.
• Performance tuning of Cloudera/Horton work big data platforms.
• Effectively engage third party software support teams for production non functional issues due to 3rd Party.
• Responsible to work as a point of contact for architecture governance  with internal/external stakeholders.
• Responsible to establish build, design and operate model for   HA , DR  , Security , scalability for all data pipelines and solutions.
• Constantly reviewing new technologies in Data /CI/CD Domain and bring new practices to project.
• Works with software engineers and other architects to define and refine the product structure to align with the business, development, deployment, and maintenance needs. Works with customers and product line management to identify, refine, and translate customer needs into concrete technical requirements. Understands and plans for architecture evolution including integration of new software technologies. Takes accountability for product and application architecture. Supports and leads architectural decisions and tasks within a product line or across multiple product lines (cross-portfolio).
• Works with the software engineering teams to establish best practice guidelines and reusable and production-ready solutions. Reviews technical designs, and provides guidance to software engineers on technical and architectural design decisions. Is an ambassador for the architecture, ensuring that it is being implemented correctly. Gives feedback and inputs to the product management team to consider and improve the product line. Leadership is focused on the technical aspects of the job, rather than the people management aspects.
• Standards and Best Practices - Researches, evaluates, and prototypes new methodologies, technologies, and products. Provides leadership in the use of processes and tools. Proposes and follows through with improvements in processes and tools. Ensures effective application of corporate standards and procedures. Proposes improvements, and tracks and provides updates about pertinent technology trends.
• Customer Engagement - Obtains a good understanding of the customer context while making technical decisions and choices. Interacts effectively with customers as required. Provides the development or support team with inputs and requirements related to the technical aspects of the solution/product.

All you need is...

Critical Experiences:

• At least 10+ years’ experience in software engineering and proven experience in software architecture design.
• Experienced in building complex applications or products taking into account various technical considerations.
• Proven experience of designing and operating high volume data solution  from design till production.
• Strong experience in Cloudera/Horton work Big data platforms 
• Demonstrated deep technical domain expertise.
• Experience in presenting ideas, influencing, and build consensus in a group setting.
• Experience with production performance/capacity analysis
• Customer-facing experience (relevant for some of the jobs)
• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent - information technology, management information systems, software engineering and networking.

Technical Skills:

• Data Management Services 
• Data Strategy, Data Governance, Data Architecture, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Cataloging, Data Security, Data Operations
• Big Data Analytics, Self-Service BI, Data Visualization
• Data Science (AI/ML, Platform, Self Service)
• BI Platform Migrations
• DevOps, Automation
• Big Data Technologies (6+ experience; Cloud experience is a must  - AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, Hive, HBase, ,   Spark, Python, Java, Scala, Kafka, Nifi, ElasticSearch
• Performance Tuning of Big data Hadoop Platforms ( Cloudera , Horton work ).
• Kubernetes
• Ansible , Jenkins , Docker
• Automation of cluster setup/configuration, code generation

Why you will love this job:

• Be challenged by crafting the high-level design and dictates technical standards.
• Success applicants will gain the opportunity to work with the industry most advanced technologies
• We provide opportunities to evolve yourself in the future and be responsible for a suite of products, creating a high-level design that connects several (heterogeneous) sub-systems, which together make up a whole system.
• We provide stellar benefits from health to dental to parental leave and even pet insurance!