The Principal Platform Engineer, Data Architect leads the design and development of the organization's data architecture and platform. They ensure scalability, security, and efficiency while collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives.
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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The Impact of a Principal Platform Engineer at Coupa:
A Principal Platform Engineer is a highly experienced and influential technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the organization's application platform and architecture. They focus on ensuring data scalability, security, and efficiency, while also collaborating with various teams to align data strategies with business goals.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities of the Coupa Application Platform.
- Build solid expertise of the entire Coupa application suite and leverage this knowledge to better design application and data frameworks
- Adhere to Coupa iterative development processes to deliver concrete value each release while driving longer term technical visionWide knowledge of architecture standards and patterns, a passion for advocating their correct usage and excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Document the solutions leveraging existing standards and create new templates where required; present them to project-specific governing bodies for review and approval.
- Consulting skills are imperative to gain consensus on solutions proposed.
- Work alongside Engineering and Product leadership teams to review and/or create the feature designs for the major releases and also participate in defect analysis for maintenance releases to ensure the robust functional resolution to the customer-facing issues.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
- Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- Prefer Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of system implementation experience in a large IT organization with large, complex projects
- 5+ years of experience developing business applications or frameworks
- 3-5 years defining high-level design for one or more business domains
- 3-5 years of experience interpreting and predicting outcomes of existing business processes and current technology solutions
- Broad knowledge of middleware/application integration productsDemonstrated proficiency in understanding and executing enterprise architecture and software development life cycle methodologies
The estimated pay range for this role is as follows:
•Based in Bay Area, California: $214,625 - $252,500
•Based in California: $205,700 - $242,000
•Based in Colorado: $184,025 - $216,500
•Based in New Jersey: $205,700 - $242,000
•Based in New York: $205,700 - $242,000
•Based in Washington: $190,825 -$224,500
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state.
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