Architect

**Job Description**:
**Job ID**:

- ARCHI013471

**Employment Type**:

- Regular

**Work Style**:

- on-site

**Location**:

- Noida,UP,India

**Travel**:

- Up to 25%

**Role**:

- Architect

Company Overview

With 80,000 customers across 150 countries, UKG is the largest U.S.based private software company in the world. And we’re only getting started. Ready to bring your bold ideas and collaborative mindset to an organization that still has so much more to build and achieve? Read on.

At UKG, you get more than just a job. You get to work with purpose. Our team of U Krewers are on a mission to inspire every organization to become a great place to work through our award-winning HR technology built for all.

Here, we know that you’re more than your work. That’s why our benefits help you thrive personally and professionally, from wellness programs and tuition reimbursement to U Choose — a customizable expense reimbursement program that can be used for more than 200+ needs that best suit you and your family, from student loan repayment, to childcare, to pet insurance. Our inclusive culture, active and engaged employee resource groups, and caring leaders value every voice and support you in doing the best work of your career. If you’re passionate about our purpose — people —then we can’t wait to support whatever gives you purpose. We’re united by purpose, inspired by you.
- UKG is hiring an Architect for the UKG Scheduling product. In this role you will be responsible for leading and driving the architectural design and implementation of key modules within the product. This role requires a strong technical background and a passion for driving innovation and efficiency.
Architects participate in how we define, implement, and enforce an overall architecture practice, including principles and standards. They are focused on improving efficiency and effectiveness of the business through architectural designs that align and fit within the technical ecosystem. They are the primary drivers of design, while also being technically hands-on to support the teams and ensure that ongoing feature deliveries are well-designed, resilient and optimized for performance.
1. Provide technical leadership and support to UKG Scheduling engineering teams
- Develop, design, and communicate a clear architectural vision and design for the teams that is aligned with the organization's goals and objectives, while keeping a product suite mindset at the forefront.
- Understand product requirements, drive for clarity of requirements to ensure the design is fit for purpose, and ensure design supports architecture strategy.
- Develops technical roadmaps and ensures that services for the suite meet established architectural guidelines and standards.
- Deep dive into the code to confirm design integrity and maintain a cost-effective straightforward design throughout the teams.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and product managers, to gather requirements and ensure architectural design meets the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate with peers and technical leaders to define/articulate constraints and guidelines.
- Define and enforce CI/CD standards, development methodologies, and quality assurance processes.
- Identify and mitigate risks associated with architectural decisions.
- Ensure effective adoption of observability tools for proactive alerting of production performance issues, adopt service-owner mindset to ensure quick recovery from problems, and constantly seek opportunities to improve resilience of services from failures.
- Leverage artificial intelligence tools to identify productivity improvements for engineering teams, as also value-add features for our users.

2. Document and maintain the product & service architecture
3. Drive strategic architecture vision and innovation.
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices to ensure the Value Streams scalability, security, and performance.
- Provide architecture leadership, focusing on creating and maintaining cross-product and multi-year architecture visions.
- Identify architecture risks, develop mitigation strategies, and maintain architectural opportunities for all stakeholders.
- Understand how architecture is done across the industry; research new technology trends; identify innovations that can drive a competitive advantage for UKG products.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelors/Master’s in engineering / Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 10 years of software development experience in a fast-paced environment, working through all phases of the software development life cycle.
- Proven experience as a lead software developer or similar role, driving the architecture and implementation of complex software solutions.
- Possess extensive design portfolios showing high proficiency in Java based development technologies for SaaS and Multi-Tenant systems.
- Experience leveraging observa