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Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Sr. Architect – Solutions Development.
In this role, the Senior Architect will oversee and guide one or more software development teams to accomplish organizational goals. In this role, the individual must have extensive knowledge of technology and experience building and operating custom applications in production and managing teams of developers.
Job Responsibilities:
Take accountability for the delivery of mission critical projects – providing strategic oversight, guidance and ensuring timely delivery with maximum quality.
Provide support and guidance for two or more teams of software engineers serving as a mentor and coach for lead developers on teams.
Delegate work as needed across one or more individuals and/or development teams.
Ensure adherence to standards & best practices – graceful failure, security, unit testing, devops, instrumentation drive the build to operate strategy.
Ensure and oversee continuous improvement strategies to improve operational viability and overall maturity of custom software products based on published maturity model.
Evaluate tools and technologies and provide analysis and recommendations
Develop system architecture to solve business problems. Be able to articulate multiple approaches architectures and be able to articulate trade-offs with various approaches.
Present solutions to senior MCIT leadership an stakeholders.
Work with external IT teams supporting work networking, storage, security, architecture to work toward project completion.
Sheppard projects through the IT governance process, create and present materials to IT governance groups (enterprise architects).
Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation. Provide support as needed during production outages off-hours.
Minimum Qualifications:
BS or MS in engineering or computer science related discipline or equivalent experience.
8+ years of building custom software solutions and 4+ years serving as a lead engineer on a team of software engineers.
4+ years designing of designing and overseeing the development of custom software solutions. Familiarity with various architectural patterns and trade-offs with various approaches.
2+ serving as an engineering manager, supporting direct reports and multiple teams..
Expert knowledge of web technologies including HTTP 2, TLS encryption, caching, web browsers, cookies, http headers, html ,javascript and CSS (web only).
Expert knowledge of the Unix operating system (RHEL/Centos, Ubuntu) (web and services)
Expert knowledge of GIT version control including using branches, code reviews, tags, etc.
Expert knowledge of using Unit testing frameworks and experience writing unit tests as part of the development process.
Expert Knowledge of agile scrum methodology and experience working on a scrum team.
Knowledge of relational database technologies designing normalized relational schemas, creating schemas, indexes, writing sql queries and troubleshooting performance issues (web and service).
Knowledge of non-relational database technologies schemaless, graphDB and suitable use cases for these technologies.
Expert Knowledge of REST APIs and REST standards using standard tools that automatically create API documentation (web and service).
Knowledge of various web development languages, frameworks and tools. Understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each language/tool/framework and suitable applications of these technologies (web).
Knowledge of various backend development languages, frameworks and tools. Understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each language/tool/framework and suitable applications of these technologies (service).
Knowledge of patterns of enterprise architecture including both synchronous and asynchronous architectures. Able to articulate different architectural solutions for large scale software systems and trade-offs between various approaches to different architectures.
Knowledge of one cloud computing platform creating cloud based infrastructure and managing with infrastructure as code tools (web and service)
Knowledge of devops tools creating code pipelines using Jenkins (or equivalent) to automatically deploy and validate deployments(web and service)
Knowledge of test automation tools and strategies (functional, service, contract, network failure)
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve production issues application, networking and OS level and provide Tier 2 production support.
Experience and knowledge of methods of scaling web applications to increase capacity to handle increasing number of transactions. This includes various load and performance testing methods to ensure applications can meet business needs at scale.
Positive and growth-oriented mindset. Flexible personality, comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders.
Verbal and oral communication skills. Ability to collaborate with team members to complete team goals.
Strong written communication skills. Ability to create presentations for architecture and security review. Ability to create detailed architecture diagrams for architecture review.
Ability to work with and forge relationships with other supporting IT teams negotiating with security, enterprise architecture and working within IT governance policies.
Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
NYU Langone Health provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you’ll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.
NYU Langone Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender dysphoria, national origin, age, religion, disability, military and veteran status, marital or parental status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision. We require applications to be completed online.
NYU Langone Health provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $213,477.55 – $244,093.50 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
