Lead Architect

As the Lead Product Architect, you will provide high caliber technical leadership and architectural direction for one or more Idera products, owning and achieving successful results per each product’s roadmap and business plans. A successful Lead Architect will:

● Develop and deliver high-quality software products across a growing portfolio of successful software companies.

● Work cooperatively with Product Management and DevOps to define and document requirements for each discrete project and its testing.

● Work with and lead one or more Product Architects to drive and deliver high-quality, on-time product releases.

● Drive successful results using internal teams and teams from Idera’s diverse and global network of development partners.

● Determine the technologies, environments, and other components necessary to deliver a high-quality product and customer experience.

● Take personal ownership of each project and its results, working proactively to deliver successful results.

● Communicate clearly, succinctly, and successfully amongst project teams and with executive stakeholders.

The Lead Product Architect is a key member of the core team tasked with defining and achieving product release results that achieve defined business goals. This role owns all technical and delivery matters related to each assigned product, and will:

● Orchestrate high-quality, fast-cycle software implementations.

● Maintain, guide, and improve each product’s architectural evolution and integrity.

● Ensure best practices and architectural guidelines are followed.

The Lead Product Architect continually contributes to and leads process improvements aligned with achieving high-quality, on-time releases and results. Functional duties include the following.

Architecture & Development

● Grow and maintain a detailed understanding of the product, product source code, dependencies, build system, test suite, and relevant environments.

● Make good, proactive decisions for the product

● Assess and shepherd the technical delivery of high-quality products to ensure adherence with best practices, documented process, documented requirements, and delivery commitments.

● Estimate software development effort based on documented requirements, quantify, and propose alternatives to achieve strong results, and prioritize development work for a given area or team.

● Collaborate with the Product Management Team and other stakeholders, contributing to the product roadmap, product requirements, and product release schedule.

● Ensure all requirements are clear, complete, testable, and satisfied.

● Ensure and drive proper testing of development work to yield high-quality results.

Engineering Leadership & Mentoring

● Lead other product architects and all engineering efforts to achieve strong technical designs, implementation approaches, estimations, and successful delivery via geographically diverse software development partner teams.

● Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to executive leadership, including escalation of issues with proposed solutions as necessary to achieve the intended business results.

● Initiate and drive activities to improve processes and product quality in pursuit of delivery excellence.

● Foster and drive proactive collaboration across technical and functional teams.

Attributes and Required Skills

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science (or a related field) or professional work experience yielding equivalent skills.

● 5+ years’ experience building successful production software systems.

● Experience driving business results using global teams.

● Deep understanding of team-based software development.

● Successful history of leading, delivering and shipping high-quality on-time software.

● Ability to take raw product requirements and develop software architectures and designs to bring products to life.

● Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of programming languages.

● Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

● Ability to communicate design rationale and build consensus.

● Ability to prioritize and manage work to meet critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment.

● Proactive in driving personal and team results, including strong problem-solving skills.

● Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.

● Desire to be challenged and achieve results in a successful technical and business environment.

Qubole Specific Programming Languages and Technologies

● Phython, Ruby, Javascript, Java

● Hive, Spark, Trino, Mojave, Jupyter, Hadoop, Zeppelin, Ranger, Airflow

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