PEAK6 Investments
PEAK6 Investments is a diversified financial services firm that emphasizes the use of technology and strategic decision-making to drive industry change. The com
Staff Platform Architect
Location
United States
Posted
72 days ago
Salary
$166.1K - $207.6K / year
Seniority
Lead
Bachelor Degree15 yrs expEnglishCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaMicroservicesRuby on RailsGo.NET
Job Description
• Understand Apex’ broad product portfolio and lead design of a resilient, customer focused client-facing API and integration experience
• Develop and design application delivery rails that enable Apex’s products and services to be delivered to the market in a standardized way
• Ensure that our API based solutions deliver value throughout the customer journey
• Oversee architectural design groups that develop “best in class” engineering practices for our services by ensuring that service and components are well defined, modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored
• Lead an architecture council to drive technical decisions and ensure that services fit within our overall architecture vision
• Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures
• Grow and mentor developers to develop best-practices and collectively collaborate across teams to build and integrate innovative products
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through code and design reviews, and by using data/telemetry to make decisions
• Build collaborative and productive relationships with development, product and program managers along with broader business stakeholders to define Apex’ developer experience strategy and help accomplish key business objectives
• Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management, and executives
• Have strong understanding of business and technical problems that teams are solving, able to work with stakeholders and teams to prioritize, clarify, and organize team’s work based on this knowledge
• Identify risks, perform risk analysis, effectively manage risks; proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions, escalating and identifying alternate options as appropriate; Follow defined Risk Management processes
• Assess existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement
Job Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven track record of navigating the company and influencing and inspiring peers
- Readiness to travel occasionally
- Experience gathering and translating business and technical requirements
- Strong sense of personal accountability
- Experience in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud platform
- Deep expertise in Java (or other modern software languages like .NET or Go)
- Experience with REST and microservices
- Expertise in Agile and other software development methodologies and practices
- Financial services background preferred
- BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Benefits
- healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP)
- competitive PTO
- 401k match
- parental leave
- HSA contribution match
- paid subscription to the Calm app
- generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits
- hybrid work schedule
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