Senior Principal Architect - Cloud Engineering

nIFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really mattersat the Moment of Service. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

nAt IFS, were flexible, were innovative, and were focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of societys greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

nWe celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

nBy joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

nWere looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

nIf you want to change the status quo, well help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

nThe Senior Principal Architect (SPA) will own the overall architecture accountability for one or more portfolios within IFS Technology. The role of the SPA is to build and develop the technology strategy, while growing, leading, and energising multi-faceted technical teams to design and deliver technical solutions that deliver IFS technology needs and are supported by excellent data, methodology, systems and processes. The role will work with a broad set of stakeholders including product managers, engineers, and various R&D and business leaders. The occupant of this role diagnoses and solves significant, complex and non-routine problems; translates practices from other markets, countries and industries; provides authoritative, technical recommendations which have a significant impact on business performance in short and medium term; and contributes to company standards and procedures, including the IFS Technical Reference Architecture. This role actively identifies new approaches that enhance and simplify where possible complexities in the IFS suite. The SPA represents IFS as the authority in one or technology areas or portfolios and acts as a role model to develop experts within this area.

nWhat is the role

• nBuild, nurture and grow high performance engineering teams using Agile Engineering principles.
• nProvide technical leadership for design and development of software meeting functional & nonfunctional requirements.
• nProvide multi-horizon technology thinking to broad portfolios and platforms in line with desired business needs.
• nAdopt a hands-on approach to develop the architecture runway for teams.
• nSet technical agenda closely with the Product and Program Managers
• nEnsure maintainability, security and performance in software components developed using well-established engineering/architectural principles.
• nEnsure software quality complying with shift left quality principles.
• nConduct peer reviews & provide feedback ensuring quality standards.
• nEngage with requirement owners and liaise with other stakeholders.
• nContribute to improvements in IFS products & services.

nWhat do we need from you

nIts your excellent influencing and communication skills that will really make the difference. Entrepreneurship and resilience will be required, to help drive and shape the technology strategy. You will need technical, operational, and commercial breadth to deliver a strategic technical vision alongside a robust, secure and cost-effective delivery platform and operational model.

• nSeasoned Leader with 15+ years of hands-on experience in Design, Development and Implementation of scalable cloud-based web and mobile applications.
• nHave strong software architectural, technical design and programming skills.
• nExperience in Application Security, Scalability and Performance.
• nAbility to envision the big picture and work on details.
• nCan articulate technology vision and delivery strategy in a way that is understandable to technical and non-technical audiences.
• nWillingness to learn and adapt different technologies/work environments.
• nKnowledge of and skilled in various tools, languages, frameworks and cloud technologies with the ability to be hands-on where needed:
  • nProgramming languages - C++, C#, GoLang, Python, JavaScript and Java
  • nJavaScript frameworks - Angular, Node and React JS, etc.,
  • nBack-end frameworks - .NET, GoLang, etc.,
  • nMiddleware REST, GraphQL, GRPC,
  • nDatabases - Oracle, Mongo DB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL etc.
  • nAzure and Amazon cloud services. Proven experience in building cloud-native apps on either or both cloud platforms
  • nKubernetes and Docker containerization
  • nCI/CD tools - Circle CI, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Tekton
• nHands on experience in OOP concepts and design principles.
• nGood to have:
  • nKnowledge of cloud-native big data tools (Hadoop, Spark, Argo, Airflow) and data science frameworks (PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, NumPy)
  • nExposure to ERP application development is advantageous.
• nExcellent communication and multi-tasking skills along with an innovative mindset.

nWe believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.