PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

This is an incredible opportunity for a Principal Software Architect to join Apex's Engineering team. As an Architect you will work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to create a world class API and product experience. You will lead our efforts to ensure our application architecture scales and provides robust enterprise grade reliability while driving companywide engineering initiatives. Where possible, you will be a technical contributor shifting between low-level design and high-level concepts. You will implement repeatable software delivery practices and processes so that we can readily deliver quality products at Apex.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Understand Apex’ broad product portfolio and lead design of a resilient, customer focused client-facing API and integration experience.

• Develop and design application delivery rails that enable Apex’s products and services to be delivered to the market in a standardized way.

• Ensure that our API based solutions deliver value throughout the customer journey.

• Oversee architectural design groups that develop “best in class” engineering practices for our services by ensuring that service and components are well defined, modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored.

• Lead an architecture council to drive technical decisions and ensure that services fit within our overall architecture vision.

• Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures

• Grow and mentor developers to develop best-practices and collectively collaborate across teams to build and integrate innovative products.

• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through code and design reviews, and by using data/telemetry to make decisions.

• Build collaborative and productive relationships with development, product and program managers along with broader business stakeholders to define Apex’ developer experience strategy and help accomplish key business objectives.

• Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management, and executives.

• Have strong understanding of business and technical problems that teams are solving, able to work with stakeholders and teams to prioritize, clarify, and organize team’s work based on this knowledge.

• Identify risks, perform risk analysis, effectively manage risks; proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions, escalating and identifying alternate options as appropriate; Follow defined Risk Management processes.

• Assess existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement.

Education and/or Experience

Required Skills/Abilities

• Deep expertise in Java (or other modern software languages like Python or Go).

• Domain knowledge in large scale API integrations

• Domain knowledge in financial information architecture

• Demonstrated leadership abilities in creating clarity, generating energy, and delivering success

• Demonstrated ability to lead with integrity and remain calm during stressful situations while managing multiple demands and priorities

• Demonstrated technical leadership to provide technical guidance on technology issues, designs, and ideas.

• Expertise in Agile and other software development methodologies and practices

• Proven track record of navigating the company and influencing and inspiring peers

• Strong sense of personal accountability

Work Environment

• This job operates in an office environment.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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