Sr Staff Software Engineer (Architect)

Job Description Summary

This position is responsible for designing highly complex modules, critical components or a whole application/product in its entirety. Has the vision to integrate it across multiple systems. This position works independently and is seen as a technical leader. The position is responsible for driving the design and development efforts related to architecture, scalability, availability and performance in alignment with the product/application roadmap.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In This Role, You Will

• Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development m and infrastructure
• Provide guidance to developers with either planning and execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM
• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
• Capture system level requirements by brainstorming with CTO, Sr. Architects, Data Scientists, Businesses & Product Managers
• Leads impact assessment and decision related to technology choices, design /architectural considerations and implementation strategy.
• Subject matter expert in processes and methodologies with ability to adapt and improvise in various situations. Expert in navigating through ambiguity and prioritizing conflicting asks.
• Expert level skills in design, architecture and development, with an ability to take a deep dive in the implementation aspects if the situation demands.
• Leads the architecture and design efforts across the product / multiple product versions and is an expert in architecting custom solutions off the base product.
• Expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice when necessary – as a value offering.
  
  

Desired Characteristics Technical Expertise

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline with strong academic credentials.
• A minimum of 12-18 years of professional experience in software design and development using Java and Go
• Must have hands-on knowledge of container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud-native services
• Must have design and governance of microservices, API gateways
• Must have knowledge in scripting languages such as Bash, Python.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Platform security (authentication, authorization, encryption)
• Knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, SSO, RBAC, Zero Trust
• Experience in designing systems for scalability, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), Performance optimization
• Must have hands-on experience in Maven, SQL Database such as Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.
• Must have hands-on experience in utilizing Spring boot, Spring Framework (Core, MVC, Integration and Data)
• Must have knowledge on Unit testing frameworks like Junit, Mockito etc.,
• Must have knowledge on messaging technologies like Kafka, JMS
• Good to have knowledge on metric technologies like Prometheus, Grafana
• Good to have knowledge on EFK Stack
• Good to have on tool like Jira, Confluence, and static code analysis tools like Coverity
• Good to have knowledge with service discovery/mesh such as Istio
• Good to have knowledge of cloud service providers, like AWS.
  
  

Business Acumen

• Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps. Maps technology trends to internal vision. Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition. Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices (e.g., Test automation in lieu of traditional QA practices).
• Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders. Recommends a well-researched recommendation of buy vs. build solution. Conveys the value proposition for the company by assessing financial risks and gains of decisions and return on investment (ROI). Manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance. Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques, including ROI, SWOT, and Gap analyses. Able to clearly articulate the business drivers relevant to a given initiative.
  
  

Leadership

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome. Uses experts or other third parties to influence.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.
  
  

Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.

Personal Attributes

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
  
  

Note

Note

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes