Principal Architect

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

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Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Systems Architect to make intuitive high-level decision for software development, data architecture, security architecture and infrastructure architecture. You will need to see the “big picture” and create architectural approaches for software design, data flows, information security and cloud/on-premise deployments.

A great candidate has a strong technical background and outstanding communication skills. The candidate should be able to approach the problem space from any number of vectors and be able to clearly articulate the pros and cons of each vector.

Main Responsibilities

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand and influence functional and non-functional requirements for new and legacy applications.
• Develop high-level design specifications with attention to system integration, maintainability, performance/scale, and feasibility.
• Use tools and methodologies to create representations for modules, components, and sub-systems.
• Support software engineers, SRE and architects in appropriate technology choices and engineering/architecture standards.
• Optimize use cases to align with well-architected frameworks and best practices with an eye on generalised and repeatable patterns.
• Assist with solving complex technical problems when they arise through the methodical application of solution knowledge.
• Ensure software meets requirements of quality, security, extensibility, maintainability, and observability

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science/engineering or related experience.
• Excellent knowledge and practice of software and architecture patterns.
• Excellent knowledge of full-stack development in Node, .NET, Python or Java with demonstrable mastery of at least one of those technologies along with its tooling and ecosystem.
• Excellent knowledge of data architecture and experience working with enterprise data platforms.
• Excellent knowledge of infrastructure architecture and security such as networking, containers, storage, API gateways etc with a special emphasis on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of software quality assurance principles, test automation tools, CI/CD tools, security tools and application/systems monitoring.
• Experience in Agile development practices at scale.
• Demonstrable experience with at least 2 different enterprise class applications in two or more product organizations.
• 6+ years of architecture and design practice on enterprise applications with a total of 12+ years in software development and architecture.

Deliverables 

• Use tools and methodologies to create representations for modules, components, and sub-systems.
• Collaboratively develop high level design and architecture specifications and ensure compliance of delivered systems to documented design.
• Support development of architectural standards and corresponding metrics, tracking and guard rails around compliance.
• Develop architecture roadmaps aligned with long term product roadmaps.

Expectations

• History of mentoring and leading engineering teams focused on growing their architecture capabilities.
• Experience influencing technical decisions across the different stakeholder levels of the business including non-technical audiences.
• Ability to foster a culture around data-driven reliability, observability, monitoring, and automation.
• Cultivate architecture fluency and SME enablement within cross functional teams.
• Due to the global nature of the team, a degree of flexible working will be required to accommodate different time zones.

Additional Information

Wood Mackenzie is a place where we are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment which encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. 

Wood Mackenzie values everyone’s contribution and helps them reach their full potential while sustaining an organisational culture of health and well-being.

Our core values are:

• Inclusive – we succeed together
• Trusting – we choose to trust each other
• Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
• Future Focused – we accelerate change
• Curious – we turn knowledge into action

We understand the importance of bringing your whole self to work and to achieving balance between work, family and other life commitments.  We are open to considering flexible working arrangements to enable the greatest spectrum of talent to contribute to Wood Mackenzie's success.

Hear what our team has to say about working with us: https://www.woodmac.com/careers/our-people/

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