Principal Architect

Enterprise Architect
About Us:
Momentive Software (formerly Community Brands) provides a connected network of solutions that enable mission-driven organizations to thrive. Our software powers non-profits, and associations to engage the people they serve through programs and events, raise funds to enable their mission, and manage their financials and operations. Our family of brands are bound by a common purpose to serve the organizations that make our communities a better place to live. Through professional opportunity, we strive to give each person a clear path to success and personal growth. We embrace diversity and believe that our differences in experience and perspective are the key to our sustained success.
A Day in the Life
The Enterprise Architect is instrumental in shaping the vision for the technical architecture for the GiveSmart fundraising platform. The Enterprise Architect will provide technical and subject matter expertise while defining, designing and implementing that vision across the platform components. The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for contributing to the high-level decisions in the software development process, determining everything from day-to-day implementation choices to high level technical standards, such as platforms and coding standards. This position will leverage tools and methodologies to create representations for back-end functionality as well as the front-end user interface of platform products. Enterprise Architects will develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration, security, scalability and feasibility. This position may contribute by developing application code as needed. The Enterprise Architect will prescribe standards and guidelines and will act as a consultant to other architects, developers and leadership teams and must demonstrate quality, brevity, and timeliness in all deliverables.
A successful candidate in this role will:
Determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or existing applications
Use tools and methodologies to deliver wireframes, data models and representations of desired products
Mentor and coach junior development team members
Solve the most difficult software development challenges
Establish frameworks for the development of software that will result in high quality solutions
Maintain balance of business and technical acumen in decision making
Prescribe source-code management and work item tracking best practices
Prescribe the estimation process
Enhance and optimize the secure software development lifecycle
Provide consultation to development management team
Competencies:
Must demonstrate good decision making and effective business acumen
Must be able to communicate in both written and verbal form
Must maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials
Must have a growth mindset and subscribe to a continuous learning philosophy
Demonstrate expertise and mastery in your area of technology and industry
Must establish and maintain effective working relationships
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10+ years of professional experience in software development delivering Software As a Service (SaaS) web and moible application products
6+ years of professional experience designing & architecting using microservice development models and service-oriented architecture (SOA) methodologies.
Experience with Streaming services like Kafka and/or RabbitMQ.
Experience working with Elasticsearch and/or Solr.
Experience with developing enterprise level SaaS platforms.
Experience in simplifying technology stacks and unifying multiple application databases and data models.
Strong experience with designing and developing APIs.
Experience working in Unix / Linux platforms.
Experience with Payment systems (PCI requirements) is preferred.
Experience scaling systems both vertically and horizontally.
Find the economy of scale through common services.
Experience with modern languages like Ruby or Python is an added advantage.
Strong in Relational Database (MySQL and/or Postgres). Experience in Performance tuning data models and SQL queries
Master knowledge with respect to at least one technical stack including but not limited to the following:
o Java Tech Stack
Strong in Core Java and J2EE Skills with Java version 8,11 or onward versions.
Solid understanding of Web technologies, including Java Servlets, JSP, MVC, and AJAX Experience with Component Based Web Frameworks (Wicket, Tapestry, GWT) Experience in developing cross-browser apps using HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, ReactJS/AngularJS and CSS. SQL Server (Fluent with stored procedures, functions, indexes, views, profiler, tracing)
Web Services (gRPC, REST)
Tomcat/Ngnix web servers setup and config knowledge.
Unit and integration tests (JUnit or any other unit testing frameworks)
Cloud Native solutions
Microservices (system decomposition, containerization, Kubernetes container orchestration)
Public Cloud (AWS a must)
Container Orchestration
Container Security & Networking/Segmentation
Python
Ruby on Rails
Master knowledge of toolsets such as:
Build Tools: AWS Pipelines, Terraform, Jenkins, Bamboo, Octopus
Deploy, YAML, AWS portal, Webpack
Source Control: Git, Bitbucket
Work Request Systems: Jira
Non-functional Requirements:
o Scaling, performance
Master knowledge of SDLC Methodologies:
o Agile, SCRUM, SAFe, use of architectural patterns/frameworks
Design
o Design patterns
o Architectural patterns, microservices
o Code quality, security focus, clean modern code
Ability to collaborate, validate and assist prioritizing requirements for projects and request
Ability to properly assess and articulate risk
Preferred Education and Experience:
B.S. or higher in computer science/technology field preferred or equivalent industry experience
Excellent customer-service orientation
Effective delegation of tasks and follow-up
Lead technology assessments and author recommendations
Knowledgeable of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies
Capable of meeting deadlines and focuses on results and value creation
Capable of professionally resolving team issues/conflicts
Works well with customers and vendors, knows when and how hard to push to maintain a stable and reliable environment
Capable of leading research into application development issues to successful completion
Self-motivated and directed
Capable of prioritizing and execution of tasks in a high-pressure environment
Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and regulations preferred (PCI, PII, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, ADA, etc.)
Good People, Doing Good Things:
Employees at Momentive Software (formerly Community Brands) are techies and volunteers who strive to make the Company a great place to work. We dream big and are motivated to help our customers use the technology we create to improve the world around us. And we look forward to you being part of our story
Planned Paid Time Off
Purpose Driven Culture
Work-life balance
Passionate about Community Involvement Company Paid Parental Leave
Company Paid Parental Leave
Remote First Organization

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