What is the opportunity?

Reporting to the Chief Architect, Product Architect II will lead and consult on the technology requirements and strategy for one or many technology modernization initiatives, in a specific product group.

In collaboration with the Product Management group and domain experts, you will try to tie business imperatives tied to strategic innovation initiatives. You will provide technology directions and consult with your peer platform architects and, drive the (mostly monthly) release strategy of improvements.

You will maintain awareness of dependencies between teams and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering and operations excellence in line with the SLAs we have with clients for our SaaS deployment. You will help build the strategy for the engineering teams to architect, design and deliver new products, or refactor/modernize existing ones.

Mode of Work: Hybrid, minimum of one or two days per week in the office.

What will you do?

• Co-Lead teams of talented software engineers, providing technical architecture guidance and oversight on multiple product development, and technology modernization initiatives.
• Work with Product Management and domain experts to extract functional requirements, craft system specifications, propose ADRs for high impact architecture changes and enable the development of complex enterprise grade backend applications.
• Provide governance and review of ADRs and API specifications.
• Provide insight and approaches to troubleshooting complex application issues as they arise.
• Perform complicated and difficult assignments under direction of the Chief Architect, requiring a high degree of technical competence reflecting knowledge of current state-of-the-art technologies.
• Conceive and plan projects involving the assessment of basic architecture, distributed computing, leveraging automation and cloud technologies as input for, defining and selecting new concepts and approaches.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Haves:

• 12+ years of experience in the following:
• Professional experience for designing highly performant and scalable polyglot solutions while supporting Coding and DevOps efforts.
• Leading a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed systems, and full stack systems, to create solutions for financial industry.
• Demonstrated knowledge of web applications, application security (Oauth2/OIDC),  and open-source technologies.
• Working experience in/with:
• 12 Factor Application Design and Headless architectural principles.
• Familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, Node, React, GraphQL, REST and event-based architectures is an asset.
• Cloud native application development on Azure with an eye on cost control by design.
• Stream processing applications and message brokers like Kafka
• Relational/distributed databases and high-volume data processing in batch and real time. Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL is a plus.
• Solid understanding of a variety of programming tools and development platforms, especially Java and Spring Boot.
• Ability to explain/defend complex concepts to all layers within an organization. 
• Work in an agile (SCRUM-based) environment.

Nice to Have:

• 3+ years in a product and engineering work environment.
• Experience with Release Management practices including automation