Description

About Us:

Our mission is to elevate leading brands through unforgettable digital connections with their customers. Sitecore delivers a composable digital experience platform that empowers the world’s smartest and largest brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers. A highly decorated industry leader, Sitecore is the leading company bringing together content, commerce, and data into one connected platform that delivers millions of digital experiences every day. Thousands of blue-chip companies including American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, L’Oréal, and Volvo Cars rely on Sitecore to provide more engaging, personalized experiences for their customers. Learn more at Sitecore.com.

Sitecore’s foundation is our diverse group of passionate, smart, innovative, and collaborative individuals located across four continents and over 25 countries. Having a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and skills is what makes us the company we are today. The Sitecore values are what drive and unite us across the globe.

About the Role/ The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Software Architect to help take our platform to the next level. Reporting directly to the Director of Engineering, you will lead and facilitate the design and implementation of the Sitecore platform, providing guidance on best practice, and mentoring engineers. This is an opportunity to make an impact in a growing organisation and take on the challenge of scaling and building resilient systems across 100s of nodes that process large amounts of data. This role will be a fit for someone who is passionate about building a great product, keen to keep learning and wants to challenge themselves.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the architectural direction of the platform, driving and facilitating improvements and developments.
• Provide technical direction and guidance on data processing in the platform.
• Work collaboratively to implement and bring technically difficult concepts to reality.
• Develop use cases, user stories, design and architecture specifications.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Mentor and facilitate the development of ideas between your fellow engineers.

What You Need to Succeed

• 5-7 years’ experience designing and building big data solutions.
• Experience mentoring engineers as well as leading technical direction.
• In depth understanding of algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization techniques.
• Building scalable systems in Java and related technologies.
• Developing REST based APIs, Developing in Spark.
• NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Redis, and ElasticSearch.
• Relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem
• GNU/Linux-based development.
• Strong ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing customer requirements.

Additional Skills That Could Set You Apart:

• Big Data systems such as Presto, Hive, Oozie and Hadoop.
• Configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Machine Learning frameworks like Spark MLlib.
• Frameworks such as Dropwizard and Akka.
• Languages such as Scala and Python.
• Messaging systems like Kafka.
• An interest in bleeding edge open source technologies