Architect

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

- ARCHI013078

**Employment Type**:

- Regular

**Work Style**:

- hybrid

**Location**:

- Noida,UP,India

**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 looking to hire a Software Architect to lead in designing and delivering next generation and transformational architectural designs that yield superior functional, scalable, resilient, adaptable, performant, and secure offerings and component services at UKG. They will establish the starting point for transformational architectural decisions, patterns, and practices, with revolutionary architectural outcomes of performance, scale, security, and delivery that will shape how new software architecture patterns, technologies, and best practices are adopted and measured at UKG.

As a Software Architect at UKG you will:

- Manage and deliver new architectural transformational designs, identify architecture risks, and maintain architectural opportunities and risk assessment for all stakeholders.
- Contribute to the technical leadership for Product Architecture group to help other software architects envision, develop, and foster the adoption of new architectural transformational designs and implementations.
- Serve as Technical Ambassadors of goodwill for our internal Technical Community as well as the external Tech Industry and Academia communities.
- Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Owners when making roadmap, design, architectural, and engineering impacting decisions.
- Lead initiatives to effectively communicate and present the architectural decisions and technical strategies so that development teams properly understand why the strategies need to be adopted.
- Lead initiatives in development of architectural significant proofs-of-concept solutions to assist product architects and development teams in accelerating the adoption of the technical strategy.
- Lead technical due diligence activities and third-party partnership evaluation initiatives.
- Serve as technical strategic advisors to research work being executed in the Development organization.
- 14+ years of Software Development experience and 5+ years of Software Architecture experience as well as 5+ years of technical leadership and architecture experience in software and cloud development (ideally in SaaS)
- 5+ years’ experience designing and delivering large scale distributed systems in a multi-tenant SaaS environment
- 5+ years’ experience building, managing, and leading architects and technical leads
- Expert understanding of security, reliability, scalability, high availability, and concurrency architectural patterns and solutions.
- Expert in solution design across the full technology stack, including for public and hybrid cloud deployments.
- Expert in patterns and solutions that enable evolutionary architectures, leveraging flexibility and creativity when balancing the present technologies with emerging ones when formulating new strategies.
- Influential speaker and an expert in designing and delivering presentations on large stages, Prior experience with at least one major IaaS and/or PaaS technology (OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, etc.)
- Prior experience with agile development, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and SRE practices
- Proficient in at least one static OO language (Java, Scala, C#)
- Proficient in at least one dynamic language (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Node.js)
- Proficient in current development tools (GitHub, Gitlab, CLI, Vim, JetBrains, Xamarin, Visual Studio, Concourse.ci, CircleCI, Jenkins)
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering is preferred
- Prior experience technically leading at least one vertical software design practice, in depth such as Microservices Architecture, Public Cloud Architecture, Site Reli