Principal Software Engineer - GetSmarter at 2U

What We’re Looking For:

As a result of increased complexity and the need for deeper cross portfolio architectural coordination, you will be responsible for day to day technical oversight and guide engineers within the portfolio to ensure that the systems within the portfolio evolve in alignment with the short course business priorities and the strategic architectural direction you set in liaison with the 2U Software Architect.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• Enables the design and development of new systems and solutions while ensuring that they conform to current system architecture and or align to strategic system architectural direction.
• Conducts architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems.
• Collaborates with the director of engineering and business teams to ensure architectural solutions can be translated into effective and implementable solutions that fit the strategic portfolio architecture in terms of business, information and technical requirements.
• Identifies, evaluates and assesses risks in order to mitigate them and eliminate any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements. 
• Specifies the solutions functional and technical requirements, and implementation phases required in order to deliver on and solve complex business problems.
• Communicates the architectural strategy to stakeholders introducing new concepts and technologies to support adoption.
• Defines architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving portfolio architecture.
• Ensure that our Architecture Decision Register is up to date with our evolving systems and that decisions are made using the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method.
• Implement/maintain the use of fitness functions to ensure architectural success.
• Actively manage the Architecture Evolution Tracking framework.
• Foster an architectural focussed culture in the team via coaching sessions and policies.
• Be a subject matter expert on your business domain and influence business decisions.
• Take ownership of code contributions during sprints and report to the Director of Engineering where trade-offs were needed to be made.

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• 7 to 10 years software development experience, of which 4+ years in a role where you were responsible for the architectural strategy, design and oversight of the successful implementation of complex systems.
• Experience in building scalable solutions with a solid understanding of the underlying cloud infrastructure (AWS ideal).
• Demonstrable experience in mentoring, coaching and aligning the team (BSAs, PMs & engineers) to ensure that solid architectural principles are embedded within the team.
• Sound business acumen and the ability to effectively deal with stakeholders in challenging situations.
• Ability to navigate through complexity and ambiguity while balancing business needs and team sentiment.