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Job Description - Senior Technical Architect- Content Discovery
We are hiring a Senior Technical Architect III to join our Content Discovery team as part of the Direct-to-Consumer Global Technology group. As a technical leader in the team, this individual will make critical contributions to Global Search, Recommendations, and User Content Interest insights infrastructure, services & integrations that would enable the consumer to explore content seamlessly across the digital platforms. An ideal candidate will be a creative thinker, result-driven, and passionate about consumer video experiences & drive innovation, and produce delightful experiences for our customers. This person will advocate for data-driven decision-making, have an insatiable curiosity, love to invent and innovate to solve difficult problems and obsess about their customers. The candidate will have a strong point of view but remain open-minded should evidence lead elsewhere. This engineer takes ownership of their work and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced environment.Responsibilities- Build a deep understanding of the firm's Digital Platforms, User Base, and related DTC Product and Technology vision that influences Content Discovery technology direction
- Be a technology leader in the team and contribute to Content Discovery technical architecture, roadmap and define guiding principles for software development in the team
- Develop strategic partnerships with technology leaders in other DTC teams and stakeholder groups to foster technical collaboration that is key to the success of large scale content-driven systems
- Work closely with the software development manager in defining and documenting operational metrics that reflect the development quality of the team
- Reflect agility in thought process and work towards continuous and incremental improvements
- Play a proactive role in defining and documenting architectural guiding principles and development best practices that reflect DTC technology vision and roadmap
- Architect, design, develop and integrate complex Content Discovery frameworks, services, and infrastructure that enable the best user experience in accessing the integrated digital content.
- Enhance or support existing Content Discovery services and integrations
- Contribute to the Content Discovery quality control framework and practices
- Demonstrate proactiveness in owning the Content Discovery technology infrastructure and continuously strive towards improvement by influencing the development, release management, and production support processes and practices
- Mentor and strive to technically enable other engineering junior resources in the team through high-level design and code reviews
- Be vocal with the product ideas & technology recommendations, suggestions, and concerns that influence the team working environment
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 8+ years of strong product architecture, design, and development experience on large scale distributed systems in consumer-focused companies
- Proven and established technology leader who is capable of influencing product technology decisions based on the enterprise thought process and industry technology trends
- Very strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, architectural and design patterns, data structures & algorithms
- Ability to apply strong analytical skills in delivering simple solutions for complex problems
- Very strong expertise in cloud computing and hands-on experience in delivering large scale distributed systems on cloud platforms like AWS and/or Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform
- Proficient in an object-oriented programming language like Java, C#, C
- NoSQL experience like DynamoDB
- Experience with Event-Driven Development on large scale data streaming platforms like Kafka
- Ability to work on a diverse, distributed, and agile team
- Working experience on large scale content-driven systems
- Successfully established engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Very strong communication skills
- Must have the legal right to work in the United States
- Experience with mission-critical, 24x7 systems
- Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems
- Prior advanced search implementation experience leveraging Client & NLP
- AWS Architecture Certifications
- Behavior Driven Development experience
- Any technical publications or digital print that reflect the larger technical influence
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