Cloud Service Architecture Fellow

Overview

This role will drive technical architecture of services engineering teams within the Software Solutions business unit. These products focus on empowering front-line workers using Zebra (and other) hardware to be more effective in their roles. Our software solutions combine the power of the cloud with IoT, big data analytics, and machine learning to put powerful insights and capabilities into the hands or our

customers workers in real-time. We serve customers in various verticals, including transport & logistics, healthcare, retail and manufacturing

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include working with cross-functional, Agile development teams to evaluate, design and architect cloud native solutions.
• Requires a sound working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services and capabilities, microservice design and domain-driven-development.
• Will collaborate across functions to define the system architecture and ensure the integrity of the design by defining SLOs.
• Will have overall responsibility for setting the technical direction of a solution, including selecting frameworks, identifying dependencies, writing technical requirements and driving continuous improvement.
• Shall understand DevOps and can drive requirements for CI/CD, automation scripts, load performance testing, auto-scaling and monitoring tools capable of operating solutions with minimal manual intervention.
• Shall evaluate work upon completion to ensure technical KPIs have been met and will drive functional excellence initiatives.
• Works effectively in a fast-paced, global environment supporting high-demand solutions.

Qualifications:

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computer Information Systems
• Masters Degree preferred

Minimum Work Experience (years):

• 15+ years of experience
• 5+ years of experience in cloud-based enterprise-systems architecture
• Experience in product engineering

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Experienced hands-on architect. Enjoys active prototyping, design and code reviews,

production incident handling and service evolution.

• Experience with highly Agile development teams and large-scale system creation
• Experience in GCP and API development, including externally exposed APIs
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to create architecture diagrams and distill complex technical subjects in order to present updates to executive leaders
• Real-world experience in cloud native product development, including delivering a software solution through to production
• Proven problem solver and impediment remover, identifies issues, finds solution to blockers and helps resolve technical issues quickly to achieve goals.
• Eager to evaluate the pros and cons of different technical solutions and determine how best to apply different cloud capabilities.
• Drives innovation and acts as evangelist for technology improvements
• Knowledge of variety of database and datastore technologies and how best to utilize each (RDBMS, Distributed SQL, DeltaLake, bucket/blob storage, & document stores such as MongoDB and BigTable).
• Working knowledge of building compelling back-end application frameworks.
• Strong interest in product development and platform approach to system design.
• Understand ways to incorporate Machine Learning and AI into a larger system design. • Familiarity with a variety of API and client/server communication technologies such as gRPC/Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI, GraphQL, MQTT, Kafka, MongoDB/Realm
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Service Mesh
• Familiar with load-testing, scaling services, right-sizing and cost management
• Familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code approach to cloud deployment via Terraform and Helm.
• Working knowledge of several computer languages, especially modern Java and Javascript
• Solid understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment and operations

concepts.

• Experience in a broad range of Google Cloud Platform services and capabilities, preferred 

Position Specific Information:

• Travel Requirements (as a % of time): 10%