As companies compete in the digital era, the ability to combine multiple best-of-breed technologies into a cohesive, decoupled (often referred to as headless), custom platform is greater than ever. Does helping establish a point of view on composable architecture and how to build and maintain adaptable systems sound interesting? We're seeking candidates that are excited by these trends and equipped to conceive and lead technical teams to deliver value for our clients.

As the Principle Architect, you straddle both realms of the strategic and tactical. You are able to zoom-out to strategically advise clients on how to decompose off from their monolithic legacy systems and recompose into a composable architectural pattern leveraging API-first, Saas-based platforms and cloud technologies. You are also able to zoom-in to effectively lead and advise the Lead Engineers and Senior Developers in executing your architecture and vision. Although it is not required to have full-stack hands-on knowledge, you should have an innate understanding of how modern front-end Javascript frameworks tie in with SAAS-based backend platforms via integrations based on micro-services built using the cloud and how data is ingested and distributed between systems. Thus, you should have prior experience architecting and/or leading the implementation of projects in a headless/decoupled context.

Role and Responsibilities

• Understand and communicate headless architectural principles, best practices, code patterns, and mentor/educate others
• Collaborate on standard architectures around composable/shared experience services
• Oversee and participate in conceiving, planning, and directing large client projects
• Solution for and aid the business development team in pitching and winning new work
• Collaborate with Practice Lead to enable the practice goals through technology
• Conceive and guide the development of tools to enable successful, efficient, and repeatable delivery across multiple projects (e.g. accelerators, dev tools, etc.)
• Develop technical training resources to ramp developers into being effective

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an Application Architect or related position implementing headless/decoupled applications
• Have an understanding of how React, Angular, Vue or other modern Javascript frameworks integrate with backend APIs
• Experience building APIs & microservices on one or more of the cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience building integration pipelines to ingest and distribute data both realtime/async leveraging one or more of the cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience implementing SSO solutions (OKTA, Facebook Login, Google, etc.) using authentication mechanisms (SAML, OAuth, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on Experience building applications using React, Angular, Vue or other modern Javascript Frameworks
• Experience working with traditional or headless content platforms (Amplience, Contentful, Netlify CMS, Adobe AEM, etc)
• Experience working with traditional or headless commerce platforms (Magento/Adobe, CommerceTools, Elastic Path, Shopify, SAP hybris, etc)
• Agency or big brand experience a plus

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