Principal Software Architect

Location: Remote, USA

Reports to: SVP of Software Development

Job Summary:

By taking ownership of technical architecture, accuracy and code quality across the entire tech ecosystem, the Principal Software Architect oversees development across the DMS software suite. They are a contributing decision maker about what technologies to use, how software should be architected, and what the technical direction of certain platforms will be.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Provide application-wide leadership on decision making about technical application architecture with the viewpoint of meeting business requirements at the lowest total application life-cycle cost for the related business value added.
• Perform detailed design and prototyping in accordance with the enterprise vision to move DMS’s application base forward
• Advise an application team or set of application teams– providing guidance on development practices and technical designs.
• Lead a team or set of teams directly focusing on architecture improvement projects for specific applications or enterprise architectural components.
• Identify areas in applications for refactoring and improvement and work in collaboration with the SVP of Software Development to establish a roadmap of enterprise and application-specific architectural improvement.
• Assist application Product Owners in prioritization of architectural work on the code base.
• Work closely with the Product team and SVP of Software Development to estimate large efforts and guide long term decisions about how to implement new features and functionality.
• Mentor and guide developers to improve their coding practices via code standards, unit testing, secure coding practices, design patterns, code reviews, pair programming and other best practice activities as necessary.
• Conduct skills development efforts when new technologies are introduced.
• Pay particular attention to:
• Application security best practice implementation in our applications
• Architecture and technology capability with agile processes and tool chains
• “lities” – quality, stability, productivity, scalability, usability and maintainability.
• Inspire and excite people internally around the technology vision and plans.
• Work with DevOps group and application teams to streamline build and release processes via architectural modifications

Technologies & Systems DMS Technology Uses

• HTTP Servers: Apache, Nginx, HAProxy
• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, mongoDB
• AWS services, including but not limited to: VPC, EC2, ECR, ECS, Lambda, S3, EFS, Kinesis, Redshift, ElasticCache, RDS, CloudFront, API Gateway, CodeDeploy, CloudWatch, IAM, SNS, SQS, Load Balancers, Auto Scalers and AMI's
• We support PHP, NodeJS, Go, Python, Bash, Ruby, Javascript, Java services
• Tools we use include: Terraform, Docker, Packer, Vagrant, Github, TravisCI, Looker, and Gatlin

• BS in Computer Science preferred, or has an equivalent combination of technical education and/or equal work experience
• 10+ years of experience in software development
• 4+ years leading an engineering team or as a Sr. Software Engineer
• In depth experience w/ AWS
• Ability to effectively communicate across multiple channels, on and offline
• Demonstrates good time management skills, utilizing tools as needed
• Demonstrates knowledge of different design & problem solving patterns
• Use of multiple languages and technologies (front and back end)
• Ability to use the right tool for the job
• Ability to take on legacy projects as well as architect solutions from the ground up
• In depth understanding of the entire SDLC
• Works well with IT and is involved in DevOps processes
• Certified in Scrum/Agile, or equivalent knowledge and experience