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The Senior Principal Systems Design / Architecture Engineer is a highly skilled and advanced subject matter expert, responsible for leading the definition of the architecture for large or complex systems.
This role conducts system design activities to ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
The Senior Principal Systems Design / Architecture Engineers performs architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.
Key responsibilities:- Provides technical leadership in the system design activities and guides on reviewing detailed application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks.
- Responsible for ensuring that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
- Works cross functionally to review existing system architecture and recommends improvements.
- Leads the investigation and scoping of change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required.
- Determines system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements.
- Ensures that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the company’s goals and strategies.
- Accountable for the design and development of new systems and solutions.
- Ensures that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and/or align to strategic system architectural direction.
- Advises on architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.
- Ensures that system architecture is delivered in the form of robust and scalable solutions to business problems and needs.
- Identifies, evaluates, and assesses risks in order to mitigate them and eliminates any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements.
- Advises on the implementation of processes for integrating architectural solutions.
- Advises on the implementation of architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture.
- Guides on the implementation and/or maintenance of the use of fitness functions to ensure architectural success.
- Owns the identification of potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions.
- Ensure team members understand system architectural implications of requirements.
- Performs any other related task as required.
To thrive in this role, you need to have:- Excellent business acumen with excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to effectively deal with stakeholders in challenging situations.
- Ability to navigate through complexity and ambiguity.
- Significant knowledge of system architecture, design, and delivery.
- Significant understanding of regulatory requirements and organizational standards.
- Significant knowledge of the system design lifecycle models.
- Significant ability to design systems compatible with cloud computing architectures and selection of components.
- Significant ability to design and select system components.
- Excellent planning and decision-making skills.
- Excellent ability to use a variety of design tools.
- Significant understanding of software development practices, including Agile and CI/CD.
- Significant expertise in containerization technologies, such as Docker/Kubernetes.
- Significant expertise in data security and privacy best practices.
- Significant knowledge of clean code concepts, design patterns, test driven (TDD) and behavioral driven development (BDD).
Academic qualifications and certifications:- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
- Recommended certifications such as Cloud (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect); TOGAF preferred.
Required experience:- Significant demonstrated experience in similar IT roles, with a focus on system design / architecture engineering.
- Significant demonstrated working experience in a large-scale organization.
- Significant demonstrated experience, judgment and drive to plan, make decisions and accomplish individual and team goals.
- Significant demonstrated experience with software development lifecycles.
- Significant demonstrated experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Significant demonstrated systems and/or software development experience is essential.
- Significant expertise in cloud-based architectures, preferably in popular cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
- Significant expertise in designing and implementing scalable, distributed, and high-performance systems.
- Significant expertise in software design and architecture, ideally with experience dealing with large datasets.
Workplace type:
Remote Working
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.
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