Job Description
We have
a
position
for a
Principal Technical Architect
with one of our clients in
Atlanta, GA
for an initial contract duration of
3 months.
No third party candidates considered for this position.
Our Client is transforming the way the world buys, sells and owns cars with industry-leading digital marketing, software, financial, wholesale and ecommerce solutions for consumers, dealers, manufacturers and the overall automotive ecosystem worldwide.
About the Job:
You will lead the architecture for Consumer Platforms and Analytics team, which consists of mission critical applications for both the Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader brands. You will collaborate with architects, engineering, product, and agile leaders to establish and scale Consumer Platforms and Analytics capabilities with a common technological and architectural vision delivered in the AWS cloud. You will drive the definition of architectural styles and patterns necessary to deliver the functional and non-functional requirements, validate solutions, identify risks and dependencies, and evaluate alternatives through hands-on research, discovery, and prototyping. You will support solution development through providing, communicating, and evolving the greater technological and architectural view of the solution. You will frame solution alternatives in both technology and business terms, ensuring that product and business decisions are not made in isolation of their technical implications, and vice versa.
Responsibilities:
Architecture Vision and Direction:
- Assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles, and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize reuse of technology.
- Facilitates technical design reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.
- Assists in the identification, analysis, and resolution of technology infrastructure problems.
- Mentors engineers on business knowledge, technology, and career guidance.
- Creates a culture of knowledge sharing and failing forward, providing opportunities for engineers to learn from each other’s successes and challenges.
Technical Architecture Development:
- Develops the logical and technical architecture for project and platform initiatives and collaborates with project teams to realize them.
- Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology, and interoperability requirements and produces high level design deliverables that enable development teams to produce products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.
- Communicates technical architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery team and other stakeholders.
Technology Monitoring & Evaluation:
- Evaluates emerging technologies and the evolution of current technologies to define a future vision roadmap for optimal applications of technology to meet business needs.
- Recommends improvements to technology and processes that increase the effectiveness of the team.
- Creates proof of concepts to determine the viability of new or different technologies.
- Oversees and facilitates the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology.
Preferred Skills
AMP, AMP, AMP, AMP