**Candidates who can come in 1-2 days per week are STRONGLY preferred, remote candidates may be considered.
The Digital Platform Architecture Infrastructure Design Engineering team is looking for a Senior Platform Architect who can help us solve problems, plan, and design the footprint of our systems, and lead the company in definition of standards and best practices.
All About You
• Vast knowledge of middleware technologies (Web Servers, Application Servers, Queue Managers, Messaging, Caching)
• Advanced knowledge of Web application architecture and project delivery.
• Proficient in root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
• Intermediate knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls
• Intermediate knowledge of how the Java Virtual Machine works, how Garbage collection works.
• Intermediate knowledge of network and operating system principles
• Working knowledge of Database technologies.
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies
• Solid knowledge of techniques or methodologies to achieve non-functional requirements like reliability, availability, resilience, performance, security.
• Working knowledge of Role Based Access Control, Authentication and Authorization mechanisms.
Major Accountabilities for this role:
• Responsible for gathering requirements, conducting infrastructural analysis, and producing robust designs that adhere to approved company technologies, and ensuring the design meets all technology and security policies.
• Responsible for meeting with peers, engineers, application team(s) and user(s), to determine that all the high-level requirements have been met.
• Responsible for generating products such as Technical Architecture Documents, technical memos, logical flows, and models to keep the users, architects, and the engineers constantly up to date and in agreement on the architecture and infrastructure layout of an application, system, or platform.
• Responsible for ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
• Responsible for implementing, managing, and supporting application infrastructure components while leveraging current standards and best practices.
• In charge of resolving internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure & product availability and performance globally.