Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Architect

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.

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, designarchitectural 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.

Education Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with 12+ Years of Experience.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

• 12+ year's experience relevant to software development, validation, architecting in industry space. Hands on with application software development in both monolithic and microservice architecture. Basic knowledge of UI/UX tools and development process.
• Expertise in C# (.NET Core) for architecting robust and scalable applications.
• Expertise in microservices architecture and containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc. comfortable in building microservices with distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of data architecture, Data Mesh etc.
• Strong knowledge of data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Redshift).
• Strong Proficient in multiple databases (RDBMS,NOSQL, TSDB, Columnar Database)
• Experience in Apache Arrow/Apache Calcite
• Experience in Database Design and Architecture
• Proficient in implementing and optimizing database interactions, ensuring efficient and scalable data processing.
• Proficient with performance optimizations, secure coding, multi-threading, caching
• Proficient in design principles, design patterns, and debugging techniques.
• Proficient with cluster deployments, load-balancing, HA, redundancy
• Proficient in NUnit framework for unit testing.
• Proficient in Message Queueing and Event Streaming platforms like Kafka, Rabbit MQ
• Proficient with the CI/CD tools
• Proficient with monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus
• Autonomous and able to work asynchronously (due to time zone difference)

Job Requirements:

• Facilitates and coaches software engineering team sessions on requirements estimation and alternative approaches to team sizing and estimation.
• Leads a community of practice around estimation to share best practices among teams
• Knowledgeable about developments in various contexts, businesses, and industries. Quantifies effectiveness of design choices by gathering data.
• Drives accountability and adoption.
• Publishes guidance and documentation to promote adoption of design.
• Proposes design solutions based on research and synthesis; creates general design principles that capture the vision and critical concerns for a program.
• Demonstrates mastery of the intricacies of interactions and dynamics in Agile teams.
• Demonstrates advanced understanding of Lean Six Sigma principles (e.g., Black belt certified).
• Guides new teams to adopt Agile, troubleshoots adoption efforts, and guide continuous improvement. Provides training on Lean Agile.
• Drives elimination of inefficiencies in coding process.
• Teaches XP practices to others.
• Actively embraces new methods and practices that increase efficiency and effectiveness.

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.