Principal Architect

Location: Bangalore/Gurgaon/Hyderabad

Experience: 15+ Years

JOB PURPOSE:

As part of DP World's strategy of making global trade flow, we are investing in products that will digitize the logistics ecosystem, and provide services which will create stickiness importers and exporters to use DP World services. The digital products that we are building are expected to drive billions in revenue, with a high gross margin over the next 3-5 years, and scale exponentially thereafter.

As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the software architecture across the Cargoes portfolio of products. You will be deep in each of these products, standardize development practices, deployment procedures, prevent redundancies, and make architectural decisions for this portfolio. The ideal candidate will have around 15 years of deep software expertise, would have worked in both startups and MNCs, would have built systems from the ground up, would have managed the architecture of a large portfolio of individual teams and services.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Understand and be a champion of DP World's business and product strategy
• Have a deep understanding, both low level and high level, across a swathe of technologies
• Have built and helped build business systems from the ground up, and having scaled them
• While being strategic, provide a very 'Hands-on' technical leadership and mentoring for engineers
• Own the software design, architecture and operational excellence across the cargoes products
• Work with product management and business heads to rapidly iterate on features and grow the business.
• Actively seek to prevent redundancies, while allowing that where appropriate in order to accomplish an effective balance between short term and long term goals
• Establish and promote software design and development guidelines, deployment strategies, best practices, and standards

OTHER

• Responsible for the indirect management and leadership of an engaged team, promoting collaboration and ensuring that each is developed and evaluated against goals and objectives which are aligned, specific, measurable, attainable yet challenging, realistic and time bound.
• Act as an ambassador for DP World at all times when working; promoting and demonstrating positive behaviours in harmony with DP World's Founder's Principles, values and culture; ensuring the highest level of safety is applied in all activities; understanding and following DP World's Code of Conduct and Ethics policies
• Perform other related duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related field from a reputed institution. Masters degree is a plus.
• Around 15 years of experience in the software development field, working across a wide swathe of technologies
• 5-10 years of experience leading the architecture and design function in an organization, and managing enterprise architecture
• Ability to take complex problems and simplify them elegantly. Meet time to market requirements of the business while not compromising software design principles.
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills, including the ability to communicate software choices and tradeoffs clearly and persuasively
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across multiple organizations and drive alignment
• Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate a bias for action in a fast-paced environment, working on ambiguous and challenging projects
• Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations
• Experience with tools and standards of software development, testing, deployment and operational excellence