Principal System Design Architecture

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This role conducts system design activities to ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.

The Principal Systems Design / Architecture Engineer performs architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seeks to solve complex business and technical problems.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Ensures that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
- Works cross functionally to review existing system architecture and recommends improvements.
- Leads the investigation and scoping of change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required.
- Determines system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements.
- Ensures that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the company’s goals and strategies.
- Enables the design and development of new systems and solutions.
- Ensures that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and/or align to strategic system architectural direction.
- Leads architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.
- Enables and ensures that system architecture is delivered in the form of robust and scalable solutions to business problems and needs.
- Identifies, evaluates, and assesses risks in order to mitigate them and eliminates any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements.
- Advises on specifications for solutions functional and technical requirements, and implementation phases required in order to deliver on and solve complex business problems.
- Implements architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture.
- Proactively identifies potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions.
- Performs any other related task as required.

**Knowledge, and Attributes**:

- Excellent business acumen with excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to effectively deal with stakeholders in challenging situations.
- Ability to navigate through complexity and ambiguity.
- Extended knowledge of system architecture, design, and delivery.
- Extended understanding of regulatory requirements and organizational standards.
- Extended knowledge of the system design lifecycle models.
- Extended ability to design systems compatible with cloud computing architectures and selection of components.
- Extended ability to design and select system components.
- Excellent planning and decision-making skills.
- Excellent ability to use a variety of design tools.
- Extended understanding of software development practices, including Agile and CI/CD.
- Extended expertise in containerization technologies, such as Docker/Kubernetes.
- Extended expertise in data security and privacy best practices.
- Extended knowledge of clean code concepts, design patterns, test driven (TDD) and behavioral driven development (BDD).

**Academic qualifications and certifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
- Recommended certifications such as Cloud (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect); TOGAF preferred.

**Required experience**:

- Extended demonstrated experience in similar IT roles, with a focus on system design / architecture engineering.
- Extended demonstrated working experience in a large-scale organization.
- Extended demonstrated experience, judgment and drive to plan, make decisions and accomplish individual and team goals.
- Extended demonstrated experience with software development lifecycles.
- Extended demonstrated experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Extended demonstrated systems and/or software development experience is essential.
- Extended proficiency in cloud-based architectures, preferably in popular cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
- Extended proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, distributed, and high-performance systems.
- Extended proficiency in software design and architecture, ideally with experience dealing with large datasets.

**Workplace type**:
Hybrid Working

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