Inventing for life

Job Description

Join our company as we transform and innovate. We are at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in human and animal populations.

Our Cloud and Infrastructure Technology organization provides the technical foundation powering our company's applications.  We're looking for experienced engineers who bring fresh ideas from software engineering to solution architecture and infrastructure product delivery.  As a Principal Engineer driving our solution architecture practice, you will help define and mature how we design and document our products.  You will lead efforts to grow our solution architecture community with many opportunities to impact teams and projects across our company.   

This is an important and visible role with potential for significant impact on the resilience, security, and cost effectiveness of the IT products that power our company's mission.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships across the broader IT organization to increase adoption and maturity of the practice.
• Collaborate in our community to define and deliver on the solution architecture practice's strategic vision.
• Ensure comprehensive documentation of complex solutions and maintain documentation standards.
• Deliver compelling internal and external presentations and written material to advance the practice. 
• Lead efforts to capture and share best-practices (e.g. pattern capture & reuse) amongst an emerging solution architecture community.
• Coach and mentor community practitioners to mature their practice and improve pipeline of community leadership talent.
• Demonstrate the value of the practice and decrease time to value for practitioners.
• Drive enhancement of the solution architecture practitioner experience.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, other relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of Compute/Hosting infrastructure solution architecture, engineering, delivery, and operations experience.
• 7+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 2+ years experience in working in Agile ways of working.

Preferred

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Advanced solution architecture certification (AWS Solution Architect Professional, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).
• Experience delivering value through a community of practice or open source style project that delivered outcomes without direct HR reporting structure.
• Experience architecting solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures.
• Exposure to enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF.
• Experience presenting and/or publishing best practices in industry conferences or blogs.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.
• Intermediate/advanced experience with cloud technologies and platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration.

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Data Modeling, Design Applications, Release Management, Requirements Management, Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration

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Job Posting End Date:

03/30/2025

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