Principal Engineer Systems Architecture

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

This role would taking high level architecture designs and turning them into detailed architectures to support across multiple business portfolio groups.

• Work across multiple large groups with very complex systems.
• Incorporate customer facing systems, foundations, and AI/ML systems.
• Manage through influence across a large part of the organization.
• Develop and maintain the architectural roadmap for NBI’s cross-functional capabilities.
• Lead the design of systems to ensure the technology roadmap is aligned with the business goals while minimizing technical debt.
• Provide technical leadership for complex projects and initiatives including activities that require collaboration with other (internal and external) technical groups.
• Work with peers across the organization to explore best practices, avoid unnecessary duplication of effort and optimize code re-use.
• Coordinate architectures across systems with peers to maximize reuse, interoperability, and knowledge sharing.
• Analyze industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the technology roadmap and system architectures are a competitive advantage.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A degree.
• Six or more years of experience designing architectures.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and on-prem service offering and deployments.
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies quickly.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative Agile team.
• Demonstrated aptitude and desire to learn new skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to embrace change and work in a fast paced, iterative environment.
• Significant experience with AI, ML, and CV technologies, tools, and techniques.
• Significant experience designing, building and managing Internet-scale APIs.
• Experience with edge computing paradigms.
• Four or more years of leadership experience.
• Management experience within an agile environment essential.
• Software polyglot experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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