Senior Staff Engineer - Solution Architecture Practice

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. We are currently seeking a Cloud & Infrastructure Technology Senior Staff Engineer to help grow and mature our solution architecture practice. This is also an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of our broader company's practice outside our team.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships across the broader IT organization to increase adoption and maturity of the practice.

• Collaborate in our community to deliver on the solution architecture practice's strategic vision.

• Collaborate with practitioners to publish and drive a roadmap of what outcomes the practice will produce.

• Collaborate with our community to refine the identity and expectations of solution architecture practitioners.

• Ensure comprehensive documentation of complex solutions and maintain documentation standards.

• Lead efforts to capture and share best-practices amongst an emerging solution architecture community.

• Lead efforts to capture solution architecture patterns and drive pattern awareness and reuse. Deliver compelling internal and external presentations and written material to advance the practice.

• 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 presenting and/or publishing best practices in industry conferences or blogs.

• Experience architecting solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures.

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF.

• 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.

What we offer:

Please note, the primary location is Czechia, benefits in other locations may vary.

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral programme

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programmes

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone

• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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Regular

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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:

12/31/2024

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