IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7500+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.
At IFS, we're flexible, we're innovative, and we're focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society's greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.
We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.
We're looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.
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Job Description The Principal Architect ("PA") will own the overall architecture accountability for one or more portfolios within IFS Technology. The role of the PA is to build and develop the technology strategy, while growing, leading, and energising multi-faceted technical teams to design and deliver technical solutions that meet IFS technology needs and are supported by excellent data, methodology, systems, and processes. The role will work with a broad set of stakeholders including product managers, engineers, and various R&D and business leaders. The occupant of this role diagnoses and solves significant, complex and non-routine problems; translates practices from other markets, countries, and industries; provides authoritative, technical recommendations which have a significant impact on business performance in short and medium term; and contributes to company standards and procedures, including the IFS Technical Reference Architecture. This role actively identifies new approaches that enhance and simplify where possible complexities in the IFS suite. The PA represents IFS as the authority in one or more technology areas or portfolios and acts as a role model to develop experts within this area.
What is the role? Build, nurture and grow high-performance engineering teams using Agile Engineering principles.Provide technical leadership for design and development of software meeting functional & non-functional requirements.Provide multi-horizon technology thinking to broad portfolios and platforms in line with desired business needs.Adopt a hands-on approach to develop the architecture runway for teams.Set technical agenda closely with the Product and Program Managers.Ensure maintainability, security and performance in software components developed using well-established engineering/architectural principles.Ensure software quality complying with shift left quality principles.Conduct peer reviews & provide feedback ensuring quality standards.Engage with requirement owners and liaise with other stakeholders.Contribute to improvements in IFS products & services.Qualifications Seasoned Leader with 10+ years of hands-on experience in Design, Development and Implementation of scalable cloud-based web and mobile applications.Strong software architectural, technical design and programming skills.Experience in Application Security, Scalability and Performance.Ability to envision the big picture and work on details.Can articulate technology vision and delivery strategy in a way that is understandable to technical and non-technical audiences.Willingness to learn and adapt different technologies/work environments.Knowledge of and skilled in various tools, languages, frameworks and cloud technologies with the ability to be hands-on where needed:Programming languages - C++, C#, GoLang, Python, JavaScript and Java.JavaScript frameworks - Angular, Node and React JS, etc.Back-end frameworks - .NET, GoLang, etc.Middleware – REST, GraphQL, GRPC.Databases - Oracle, Mongo DB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL etc.Azure and Amazon cloud services. Proven experience in building cloud-native apps on either or both cloud platforms.Kubernetes and Docker containerization.CI/CD tools - Circle CI, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Tekton.Hands-on experience in OOP concepts and design principles.Good to have:Knowledge of cloud-native big data tools (Hadoop, Spark, Argo, Airflow) and data science frameworks (PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, NumPy).Exposure to ERP application development is advantageous.Excellent communication and multi-tasking skills along with an innovative mindset.Additional Information We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.
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