Principal Architect - Information Technology

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Description

Job overview and responsibilities

* The Principal Architect will be responsible for leading the architectural design and strategy for Baggage Scanning suite applications. The role will lead the design, implementation, deployment, and maintenance.

* Work with other architects across the organization and at the enterprise level to build resilient and performant applications which can handle multiple business capabilities and deliver value. Guide the team on best practices in building large scale systems.

* The Principal Application Architect is highly experienced, self-sufficient, requires no direct supervision, and mentors/coach's others.

* Collaborate with domain architects, engineers, and leaders to develop technical standards, reference architectures, design patterns, opinion papers, and architecture decision frameworks that guide the design of technology solutions, especially those requiring integration of applications

* Develop and manage a technical strategy and coordinates adoption. This role will be responsible to guide architects and convey best practices/common pitfalls for system design, infrastructure integrations, application development practices, and application runtime principles

* Manage the architecture review process by creating validation checklists, reviewing architectural artifacts, and providing domain specific guidance to drive architectural alignment across the enterprise

* Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability

* Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and observability tools (Harness, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk) to ensure efficient software delivery and application reliability

* Conduct research and develop Proof of Concepts on emerging technologies and implementation toolkits in support of anticipated development efforts and recommend technologies that are functionally robust and cost effective

* Architect solutions leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms, agentic workflows, AI integrated development platforms, and custom-built technology products

* Research, enforce, and drive the adoption of design patterns throughout the enterprise and promotes best practices for solution design and development

* Identify new technologies, industry trends, and best practices, which should be incorporated into BFS policies & roadmap

* Be a Thought Partner, establishing themselves as the Subject matter expert with Product Owners, Applications Developers, Architects, Analysts, Business Process owners

* Leading and influencing the design, testing, evaluation, implementation, and support for technologies & R&D POCs of various size and complexity (application services, software, and systems tools)

* Hands-on development, support and troubleshoot of software systems as required, optimizing performance, resolving problems, and providing follow-up on all issues and solutions

* Ability to lead diagnostics/troubleshooting with the production support team during outages/incidents (including outside of business hours as needed)

* Work closely to define the product technical roadmap, prioritization and effort estimation with the product owners, business and platform architects.

* Architects complex release patterns, code review/branching strategies, and/or documentation of various levels of architecture; context diagram, component diagram, deployment diagram, sequence diagram, and logical architecture

* Support pilots for emerging technologies (including AWS services and CoPilot) and guide their transition into scalable, supported production environments.

* Develops documentation to support the application and as a guide for establishing common…