Principal Solution Architect

Summary

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting, US has the need for leading the TAA management architecture.  You will be responsible for leading a team of cloud platform product architects and will be responsible for ensuring that our applications implement the required cloud architecture and engineering patterns to achieve our reliability and availability goals.

The successful candidate for this position will be able to establish clear technical credibility with engineering leadership and Individuals Contributors on the Software Engineering teams.  You will have a deep technical understanding of the appropriate patterns required in cloud software solutions that are needed to deliver highly available Software as a Service solutions to customers with high levels of customer satisfaction.  As the leader of a team of architects engaged in software delivery you will need to have a deep understanding of the technology and business tradeoffs that are required to delivery cloud software and will be able to lead your team and stakeholders through the reasoning behind those changes.

Job Duties

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead technology team within architecting highly scalable/reliable/secure cloud-based product.
• Lead the review of application security posture with the assigned product security champions.
• Lead the effort to identify technology stack, design decision, deployment architecture and its documentation.
• Document and work through with all required stakeholders, the various architectural “..ilities” associated with an architecture and be able to justify the choices made during review.
• Participate in periodic code review with architects and software engineers.
• Collaborate with the Architecture Review Board for architecture review and finalization.
• Work with IT Ops for infrastructure needs definition and creation of the infrastructure.

Experience

• 15+ Years in enterprise software development
• 7+ year of experience in Architecture and design of cloud-based products
• Demonstrated ability to successfully managed a team of architects in an architectural practice; successfully delivering Software as a Service systems in that environment.
• Understanding of and experience with an agile SDLC
• Experience in product release cycle, best practices, code reviews and defect management. Efficient in handling changes and enhancements.
• Good database concepts and hands on in design and development.
• Experience in localization and globalization, security, performance, integration with third party components and applications.
• Ensure best design practices and processes are followed for continuous improvement of product.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent field.

Technical Experience:

• Understands and conversant with cloud patterns:
  • Scale out, scale up and load balancing.
  • Patterns required to ensure Highly Available and Reliable applications.
  • Failover at various tiers
  • How to leverage cloud elasticity
  • Side by side development and deployment (Blue/Green)
  • Multi-Tenancy
• Strong understanding of Web technologies, i.e., HTTP/HTTP2, REST, GRPC
• Strong knowledge of at least one cloud platform, with a strong preference for Azure but familiarity with AWS; including Security principles and practices
• Strong communication skills, able to sustain conversations with business stakeholders, include C-Suite executives, application and infrastructure architects and individual developers.
• Good understanding of cryptography
• Strong ability to communicate technology selection process and the tradeoffs evaluated as part of the process.
• Strong understanding and experience HTML5, CSS, JSON and JS libraries
• Experience in Agile Methodologies/Scrum, Test Driven Development (TDD) & Unit Testing.