Software Architect

Who we are

Build a brighter future while learning and growing with a Siemens company at the intersection of technology, community and sustainability. Our global team of innovators is always looking to create meaningful solutions to some of the toughest challenges facing our world. Find out how far your passion can take you.

About the Job

The Principal Software Architect will provide Enterprise Architecture leadership, vision, and deliver efficient architecture designs, using technology, evaluating design alternatives, and balancing long and short-term views and conflicting requirements (e.g., cost vs. performance). This is a great opportunity for a leader to bring their experience, discernment, and architectural philosophies to the forefront of the day-to-day management of our projects and sprints.

Principal Software Architect, you will be responsible for mentoring & coaching other architects and establishing the Solution/Software Architecture standard processes. As an inspiring leader in our Technology organization, you are a driving force behind the delivery of multiple business objectives that leverage and extend our technical platforms and position our business for growth.

What you will do

• Lead, steer & drive the Solution Architecture for Brightly’s SaaS products, platform & services and leverage the evolving technology landscape, tools & frameworks, and drive important technical decisions.
• Join our decentralized team of architects (Infrastructure, Systems and Software) via our Architecture Guild to help us rapidly move our technology strategy forward. This team partners closely with our Product Management organization to ensure that our technology strategy is aligned with our Product and Business strategies.
• Design & architect for performance, resilience, reuse, comprehensibility, scalability, security, technology constraints, and tradeoffs.
• Partner with business & Product Management leadership on short & long-term product strategy and ensure the software & system architecture support product & organizational strategy & helps in achieving business goals
• Provide leadership and technical direction for architectural activities to ensure business objectives are achieved and instill and institutionalize standard methodologies in code quality, design patterns, principles, and so on.
• Lead early-stage client interactions; Guide clients as they develop confidence and comfort with approaches and integrate with their legacy tech investments.
• Establish, shape & participate in our enterprise architecture domain governance process and model.
• Write inventions, patents, and research articles that helps the organizations sell existing products & protect future products.
• Be well-versed in the creation of disclosures, patents, white papers, blogs, research articles and industry demos and presentations. Be an expert in presenting the innovations to senior executives and premier customers.
• Drive research, technology pathfinding, concept building, and rapid product development to mature innovations from cradle to product.

What you need

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 13+ years of experience in the software industry building highly secure, scalable & reliable Solution Architectures and supporting engineers and architects that design and deliver large distributed systems – preferably in agile development, object-oriented systems realm with high availability.
• Hands-on expertise with the end-to-end architecture of cloud-hosted applications.
• Deep understanding of reactive & distributed architectural design, SOLID principles, Domain Driven Design principles & architecture patterns for reliable, resilient, performant, and efficient cloud services.
• Deep understanding of cloud application security.
• Technology enthusiast and passionate to lead from the front for critical product deliveries through breakthrough technologies.
• Knowledge of digital ecosystems and clouds. You understand the importance and aspects of microservices, REST, gRPC, SaaS and PaaS, virtualization, containerization, DevOps, connectivity and IoT.
• Know how to balance feature delivery and tech debt amortization while maintaining existing technology and innovation to satisfy business needs.
• Experience developing code, full life-cycle experience developing, delivering to production, and maintaining high transactional commercial software products & services
• Excellent knowledge of Agile methodologies and other software development best practices, tools, development processes to optimize product engineering throughput and quality
• Excellent communication skills & ability to interact with diverse partners and translate and communicate complex architectural issues to less technical staff.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to inspire, mentor and encourage teams
• Collaborative in your solutioning approach, willing to recognize and explore alternative ideas
• Willingness to work closely with all individuals involved in the full life cycle of our product

The Brightly culture

We’re guided by a vision of community that serves the ambitions and wellbeing of all people, and our professional communities are no exception. We model that ideal every day by being supportive, collaborative partners to one another, conscientiously making space for our colleagues to grow and thrive. Our passionate team is driven to create a future where smarter infrastructure protects the environments that shape and connect us all. That brighter future starts with us.

We celebrate the fact that our people are individuals and have different preferences and needs. If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new! That’s why we recruit extraordinary minds from all walks of life. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We encourage applications from a diverse talent pool including protected veterans or individuals with disabilities. Reach out and we are happy to give the opportunity to discuss flexibility and reasonable adjustment requirements. Many of our team members are working effectively in a remote, virtual environment adding to our ability to offer more flexibility on how you handle your time.

Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us craft tomorrow!

Brightly maintains a Drug Free workplace in accordance with applicable law.

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