Job Title: Principal Architect
Location: Goa, India
Reporting to: VP – Software Engineering
Job Role
Accountable for the definition, design, and leadership on the development of all Open Destination
Products. Reporting to the VP of Software Engineering, this product leadership role will work on
initiatives that drive team impact/goals and milestone prioritization, agile development, partnerships
and deployment. The role will work across the organization to get to consensus on a strategy, make
progress and have impact. The position includes helping the team understand what the user wants and
what the business needs across the all products and projects as well as the corporate level.
Position Responsibilities:
- Leading technical strategy for all Open Destination Products and projects, data architectures,
moving to hosted service environment, etc. - Creating technical specifications, correspondence and documentation to ensure team
alignment. - Verifying strategy on ensuring quality, performance and stability of releases, and deployments.
- Requiring practical, real world problem solving skills, as this team moves fast, and your role will
be to help unblock barriers. - Desiring to get their hands dirty-do the work, not just manage FTEs.
- Prioritizing and reprioritizing technical projects and initiatives based on new projects to our
portfolio and cutting others
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in product groups creating and managing new and existing products.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building cloud-scale applications on cloud platforms like Azure, AWS or GCE, should encompass the business acumen, organizational agility, and operational discipline of running a 24×7 global service.
- Proven experience in building and driving execution on large complex projects.
- Comfortable with a general-purpose programming language (C, C#, C++).
- Proficiencies should include an advanced mix of skills engaging with Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales, Service and Support.
- Strong customer first approach with ability to balance business needs versus customer requirements to deliver an optimized experience.
- Excellent communication skills and the desire to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience with application development practices and version control systems.
- Product design experience for enterprise software
