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Sr Architect

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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based on 17 Reviews

6-8 years

Mumbai, Nagpur, Thane + 3 more

1 vacancy

Sr Architect

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

posted 1mon ago

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Flexible timing

Key skills for the job

Computer Science Python SQL Postgresql Agile Coaching Software Quality Assurance

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Job Description

Position Overview

We are seeking experienced, passionate, full- stack Solutions Architect to lead the architectural evolution of our product lines and products, based on our application platforms.

We are NOT soliciting the applications from the Sales Solutions Architects or Customer Success Architects.
Responsibilities

Architectural Leadership

Steward and steer the architectural re- factoring and the evolution of one or more products, leveraging the understanding of the application platforms and the product lines with emphasis on Pattern- Oriented Software Architecture (POSA).
Work with the application platform teams for asserting, negotiating and converging on the platform support for the assigned product(s).
Drive and obtain the buy- in for the architectural decisions based on the acceptable tradeoffs and constraints.
Communicate the consequences of the architectural tradeoffs with the stakeholders, and design to offset their impacts to the possible extents

System Design

Collaborate with the product owners, the product managers, and the lead architects to de- constitute and re- constitute the architecture, components, modules, and interfaces of the
Follow the JIRA- based scrum methods for agile iterations and release cadence.

Architectural Qualities

Lead the product team(s) for delivering the solutions that enable the products for large- scale data processing, high fault- tolerance, high availability, high scalability, low latency, and optimal performance to assure fulfilling the expectations of the business.
Inculcate the DevSecOps culture into the architecture, development, and the operations processes, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations and safeguarding user data.

Continuous Architecture

Identify system bottlenecks, design optimizations, and implement enhancements to continually improve the computing efficiencies of the products.
Apply design changes and ensure compatibility of the assigned product(s) with the other products from diverse product lines across multiple platforms

Technology Conformance

Ensure the coherence and alignment with the enterprise technology stacks, including the off- the- shelf products, and 3rd- party frameworks and libraries.
Follow and / or tailor the technology prescriptions to enhance system capabilities.

Documentation

Efficiently capitalize on the design review sessions to communicate the solutions architecture, and document the design diagrams, architectural decision logs, and guidelines for development teams using Confluence.

Mentorship

Work hands- on with the software engineers, the technical leads, and the delivery leads to assimilate the requirements, establish development best practices, and provide technical guidance throughout the development lifecycle.

Code Reviews

Conduct code reviews to remediate design violations, institute the programming paradigms, e.g., reactive programming and design- by- contracts, language- specific idioms, for example, using Optional and EntrySets, and programming conventions, and overall software quality.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Certifications

Certified AWS Cloud Solutions Architect (Associate) will be highly preferred.

Experience

Explainable credentials of software architecture experience around 7+ years, with a focus on designing, building, and maintaining complex, large-scale systems with intrinsic multi- tenant SaaS characteristics.
Hands- on product architecture and design experience especially for handling architectural evolution and re- factoring of the brown- field software.
Substantial experience with microservices, containerization, serverless, and cloud-native technologies.
Cloud platforms specifically AWS and the cloud services namely EKS, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, S3, EFS, WAF, Route 53, Interface / Gateway Endpoints, and VPC.
Reasonable experience of provisioning the infrastructure or working with the infrastructure teams employing Terraform
Reasonable experience of deploying K8s- based workloads employing Helm, and DevOps using Concourse CI and JFrog Artifactory

Skillsets

Proficiencies for at- least two of following technical tiers is required:

Presentation Tier

Significant exposure and experience working with the React JS- based UI / UX.
Comfort levels with the Single SPA meta- framework, UI Containers / Shell Apps, Webpack, and pluggable micro- frontends.

Business Tier

Very strong experience developing the microservices with the Spring Boot and Reactor.
Significant experience building, assessing, consuming, and refining the REST and GraphQL preferably using Apollo.

Reporting Tier

Highly significant experience working with commonly used Reporting / BI tooling.
Exposure to working with reporting platforms, either in- house or off- the- shelf.

Highly Preferred

Exposure to Data Engineering using Apache Spark and with the Data Pipelines using Apache Airflow.
Familiarity with commonly used Data Analytics and Data Warehouse tooling, e.g., Snowflake warehouse.

Persistence Tier