Senior Staff Software Architect

Company: Wabtec Corporation
Location: Melbourne
Posted on: March 18, 2023

Job Description:

Business Overview: Wabtec's Dispatch System is an advanced solution that provides real-time train dispatching functions that direct and control the movement of trains over a railroad network. The legacy system is being converted from a monolithic implementation to a cloud native and horizontally scaling platform with high availability aspects.
Job Overview:Senior Architect experienced with cloud native technologies is needed to help lead a large program on a multi-year contract. This position will be responsible for helping lead a large scale and a long-term product strategy centered around native cloud architecture and Java related technologies.
Essential Responsibilities:In this role, you will:

• Lead and coordinate the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction across the product portfolio or product line.
• Deliver Cloud Native Architecture for large Railroad for an Enterprise scale application that utilizes Microservices Software Development Principles.
• Work with software development teams to provide software framework components that achieve architectural objectives and accelerate software delivery.
• Understand security and compliance requirements; establish seamless integration with Cyber Security and Compliance teams. Support Cyber Security procedures for the product portfolio.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Dispatch technical architecture including tool, shared libraries, and runtime efficiency
• Mentor and teach the engineering population on best practices
• Work hand in hand with the DevOps team
• Drive delivery of configurable product architecture to solve common problems driving towards product architecture vision. Deliver framework components and design guidelines for services and library components.
• Demonstrate expert level skill in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity
• Engage frequently (80%) with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing, and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions
• Maintain overall industry knowledge and trends to show leadership to employee base and customers
• Provide accurate and timely status of Content plan and current execution status to Wabtec engineering leadership
• Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering team
• Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends, and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape
• Coach and Mentor junior team members
  Basic Qualifications:
  
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
  • 5-10 Years of experience in architecture, software design and cloud technologies
  • Proven understanding of software and system level design patterns using Java and related software ecosystems
    Eligibility Requirements:
    
    • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas
    • Must be willing to travel up to 15%
    • Location is flexible
      Desired Characteristics:
      
      • Hands-on experience with cloud native technologies, deployment, and customer engagement.
      • Experience in Red Hat technologies such as Quarkus, JBoss, Red Hat SSO, RHEL.
      • Experience with distributed SQL systems, messages systems such as AMQP, Kafka and cache systems such as Redis.
      • Proven experience in delivering Highly Available 5-9s application for mission critical system.
      • Advanced understanding of Kubernetes, software design patterns for HA and versioned microservices
      • Ability to understand the technology stack and its impact on the final product. Capable of efficiently conducting customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborate on personas.
      • Experience with Rally, Jira, or other defect/work tracking tools. Capable of generating Agile metrics reports (burn-up, burn-down, velocity, etc.) and interpreting the results for larger audiences.
      • Superior knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and strong collaboration history with Quality Engineering and Dev Ops teams.
      • Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments to others. Ability to break down complex problems and estimate level of effort.
      • Understanding of microservice based and message driven architectures
        Business Acumen:
        
        • Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
        • Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
        • Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
        • Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions
          Leadership:
          
          • Excellent communicator with customer and engineering.
          • Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
          • 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 third parties to influence decisions. Uses facts and not emotions to support ideas.
          • Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on successes 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.
            Personal Attributes:
            
            • Able to work under minimal supervision
            • Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
            • Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
            • Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work.

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