Principal Software Architect

Seattle, WA

Education and Experience »

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

An advanced degree in directly applicable area of study may substitute for up to two (2) years of job related experience.

10+ years of job-related experience.

8 years of experience with cloud architecture and platform design is required.

Experience designing, developing and maintaining a large-scale cloud platform.

Experience in creating technical documentation is required.

Experience defining functional process improvements and implementing change is required.

Extensive experience in creating technical documentation and implementing standards of documentation for others to follow.

Experience researching technologies and setting long term technical vision for the platform.

Experience instituting best practices, principles and standards for software development.

Experience establishing software development lifecycles.

Experience building highly scalable and reliable software solutions platforms.

Experience with Java technology stack, including Java SE, Java EE, JDBC, Hibernate.

Experience with WebRTC, H.264, HLS, ICE, video relay.

Experience with Eclipse, GIT.

Experience with SQL, No-SQL databases, queues and messaging systems.

Experience with application performance monitoring tools.

Experience with AWS services such as EKS, ECR, Aurora, S3, KVS, SQS, Rekognition, Code Pipeline.

Experience interfacing with teams across the full stack, including firmware, middleware and front-end.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities »

Thorough understanding of software development and design principles.

Thorough understanding of large scale consumer facing video access technologies, subscription service and implementation.

Thorough understanding of cloud-based development.

Thorough understanding of SQL query optimization and Java code optimization.

Thorough understanding of multi-threading best practices, especially with regard to Java.

Ability to provide clear direction to multiple development teams across teams and geographies.

Strong leadership and communication qualities.

Ability to estimate work, support project plan creation and report out progress to functional management at a platform level.

Understanding of the technologies and architectures used across the full stack, including firmware, middleware and front-end.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Job Responsibilities:Lead the team to design and build our next generation video platform.

Identify and evaluate technologies and architecture designs that support a planet-scale platform.

Collaborate with other architects and engineers to produce thoughtful software designs of large scope and high complexity.

Lead technical discussions in community of practice, design review, or other technical meeting forums.

Set coding standards and other best practices to create reusable code.

Specify and implement APIs, architectural guidelines and standards for cloud software development.

Assess functional team skills and process maturity, outline training plans and develop a technology roadmap to drive continuous improvement within the application teams.

Comply with health and safety guidelines and rules; managers should also ensure compliance across their teams.

Participate in technical assessment, scoping and management of changes to the codebase on new business requirements, product enhancements and other change requests across multiple scrum teams.

Provide mentoring and coaching to junior and senior engineers to increase software capability of the development teams.

Provide oversight of the design review processes and implement process improvements to maintain high quality software applications.

Stay current on modern technologies and innovations which can further enhance and improve the commercial success of the MyQ connectivity and video solutions.

Responsible for complying with the security requirements set forth by the Information Security team and the established ISO 27001 Security Roles, Responsibilities and Authorities Document found in the ISMS Document Library.

Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies.

Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing related results and participating on projects as needed.

Please send/Email resumes:

mcrotty@vsoftconsulting.com

OR

lgironda@vsoftconsulting.com