Chief Architect

What You'll Do

• Develop a comprehensive technology roadmap that aligns with our business goals, focusing on consolidating and optimizing our tech stack while prioritizing resilience, scalability, and security.
• Define architecture principles and standards that promote scalability, maintainability, reusability, performance, and robust security across our real-time data processing pipelines and diverse applications.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, particularly in the realm of real-time data processing, cloud-native architectures, and serverless computing, to stay at the forefront of innovation and ensure our systems remain resilient to change and resistant to threats.
• Actively participate in architectural design reviews and technical discussions, ensuring that security considerations are integrated throughout the entire development lifecycle.
• Establish a culture of security awareness and best practices across engineering teams.
• Lead by example, actively contributing to code reviews, design sessions, and troubleshooting complex technical challenges related to resilience, scalability and performance.
• Design core components of our real-time data processing pipelines and applications, leveraging your expertise in building fault-tolerant, scalable, and secure systems.
• Pair program with engineers when needed to share knowledge, mentor, and ensure the implementation of best practices for resilient architecture, including fault tolerance, graceful degradation, automated recovery, and security by design.
• Drive the migration towards a unified and modern technology stack, actively participating in the refactoring and modernization efforts, while maintaining a focus on resilience throughout the process.
• Make informed decisions about when to use serverless architecture patterns versus traditional microservices based on factors such as cost, scalability, operational overhead, and development complexity, always prioritizing the needs of the application, overall system resilience, and security requirements.
• Coach engineers on how to design resilient software by considering factors such as fault tolerance, scalability, maintainability, performance, and security.
• Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement around resilience engineering practices.
• Guide teams in selecting appropriate technologies and architectural patterns (e.g., serverless vs. microservices) to achieve both resilience, business objectives, and security goals.
• Partner with product management to understand the evolving requirements of our real-time data pipelines and applications.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, DevOps to ensure smooth deployments, monitoring, and scalability of our infrastructure and applications, with a focus on building self-healing systems and automating recovery processes.
• Clearly communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and progress to stakeholders at all levels, emphasizing the importance of resilience and security in our systems.

What You'll Bring

• Extensive Hands-On Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, with a significant portion spent as a hands-on technical lead or architect. Proven track record in building and scaling resilient, real-time data processing pipelines, and complex applications with a strong focus on security.
• Technical Mastery: Deep expertise in Java, Microservice Architectures, Queuing Technologies (Kafka, SQS, etc), Data Stores (RDS, Cassandra, Neo4J), Elastic Search, Spark, Modern Web Application Design Principles, API strategies, and cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP). Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and serverless technologies (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions). 
• Leadership and Vision: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire technical teams through a combination of technical expertise, mentorship, and collaboration.
• Passionate Problem-Solver: A strong desire to roll up your sleeves and tackle complex technical challenges related to resilience, scalability, performance, and security alongside your team.

Benefits

• Health insurance-employee premium paid 100% by Revinate
• Dental insurance-employee and dependents’ premium paid 100% by Revinate
• Vision insurance-employee and dependents’ premium paid 100% by Revinate
• 401(k) with employer match
• Short & Long Term Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Monthly work from home stipend
• Telehealth access
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)