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VP of Architecture (SaaS, AWS)

Burlington, MA
Job Summary
We’re on a mission to transform the way organizations manage information.  Today, the records management and governance industry is made up from dozens of legacy software applications that are difficult to use and costly to maintain.  Meanwhile, safeguarding information and remaining compliant in a world of ever-increasing global regulations has never been more complex.  We’re building high performance teams to help solve complex governance, risk and compliance challenges.
We're looking for creative, entrepreneurial individuals who thrive on solving tough problems.  We are investing in the very best talent to develop a next generation services platform to transform the way the world’s most regulated companies manage their information.  The successful candidate will use their extensive experience with enterprise cloud platforms to own and drive end-to-to architecture for our transformative solution.

This role will partner with local and remote engineering teams, product managers, and senior leadership to design a world-class solution.  The right candidate with be passionate about hyper scale services based architecture, demonstrate a high capacity for tracking a broad range of deep technical detail and want to have fun while we transform the industry.   

Primary Responsibilities:  
•    Own the end to end architecture of the information management as a service platform and build the technology for taking the Platform to thousands of customers
•    Mentor and provide guidance on technical and architectural direction, methodology, design, and reuse
•    Partner with product managers, engineering staff and data scientists to understand customer requirements and to design prototypes and bring ideas to production
•    Work with Engineering to develop and maintain an overall technology roadmap that supports our software business requirements while minimizing technical debt.
•    Lead API design using multi-tenant RESTful services for low-latency inferences that scale 
•    Design elastically-scalable fault-tolerant distributed systems 
•    Develop compute and data infrastructure that ingests and transforms data from different sources and customers at scale in batch and real-time
•    Evaluate new technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities within the company's products.
•    Communicate the technical vision and plan to clients, prospects and leadership.
•    Attend/Lead strategic planning meetings for all product lines
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:  
•    Excellent software systems architecture and design skills and record of accomplishment
•    Well versed in current cloud technologies, advantages, and pitfalls
•    Strong analytical capabilities for identifying and resolving engineering tradeoffs
•    Experienced in the design of service-oriented architectures and microservices
•    Experience in techniques for application modernization. 
•    Demonstrated leadership abilities in directing technical activities and documenting technical issues
•    Ability to present technical concepts to non-technical audiences; strong presentation skills
•    Strong understanding of Enterprise IT, including strategy, enterprise architecture, governance, operations, Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE), SDLC and DevOps
•    Proactive with a strong sense of urgency and competitive drive
•    Adaptable and embraces change
•    Collaborative team player working across various teams within the organization

Education and Experience:  
•    Bachelor's degree in software engineering or computer science; advanced degree desirable
•    10+ years of experience in software systems architecture/design of multi-tenant SaaS products
•    Breadth of expertise in Cloud Computing/AWS platform, technologies and architectural best practices
•    Experience building proofs of concepts and prototypes to demonstrate feasibility of architectural designs and vision
•    Demonstrated expertise and leadership in working with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Product Mgmt, DevOps, IT…) to design solutions that meet requirements with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability and longevity
•    Hands-on experience working with the Microsoft technology stack preferred
•    Experience in a software company that implemented and sold software products in a competitive marketplace
 

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