TheCollegeBoard Hiring for Software Architect – REQ001273_43245530923_13-3175 at Springfield, Illinois Full Time

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https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/11238658 About the team

The Tech Strategy team is committed to building and driving innovation
for internal-facing and external-facing web applications that support
College Board’s core products. Our team consists of several Enterprise
teams each of which owns a unique, data-intensive, high-impact,
single-page web applications. We own the full stack, from the
infrastructure in AWS to the front-end and back-end code deployed there.
We build everything serverless, in the cloud, leveraging current and
cutting edge. We are remote, but close-knit. We are proactive,
passionate, and outcome-oriented, putting a premium on quality and
efficiency.

About the Opportunity

As an Architect, within the Technology Strategy group, you will plan,
architect, implement and standardize various aspects of the
organization’s cloud solutions, in support of various product and
service offerings. You will focus on forward looking technology
innovation and strategy for College Board’s application and data
architecture, as a core contributor of the organization’s “Elevated
Engineering” initiative. You will take ownership of conceptualizing,
developing, standardizing and driving the adoption of various
cloud-based application and data management patterns, test automation
and best practices across the various product and application delivery
teams. In this context, you would have to be prepared to take on various
roles, hands on as well as supervisory.

You will maintain awareness and knowledge of the emerging trends in
technology, and its usage within the industry, and will apply this
learning in the establishment of new and innovative technology
strategies to support College Board’s business needs. Succeeding as an
Architect will require in-depth technical knowledge, experience and
skills, necessary when building solutions to support a single technology
or line of business, as well as breadth of knowledge in multiple
technology areas, necessary when building and integrating solutions
across multiple technologies and lines of business, in an enterprise
environment.

In this role, you will:

• Assume ownership of all aspects including delivering value via
  outcomes and continuous improvement
• Manage efforts with purpose and approach to ensure delivery of
  quality solutions
• Employ creativity to devise effective and efficient testing
  strategies
• Demonstrate critical thinking – including abilities in analysis and
  problem-solving
• Use systems thinking to break down problems into manageable pieces,
  how the pieces interact, and when assembled, create an integrated,
  functioning, “whole” system.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication capabilities
• Be skillful at facilitation and negotiation
• Be an effective team player with strong emotional intelligence –
  self-awareness, confidence, ability to manage conflict, and empathy
• Respond to questions and issues – i.e., effective in communicating
  complex concepts to diverse audiences at all levels in the
  organization
• Bring a passion for technology, with an ability to understand and
  assess new technologies, and their potential applicability to
  business needs in an efficient, effective manner.

You Have:

• BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related
  field/equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience developing, tuning and implementing
  large-scale, complex system architectures
• Demonstrated professional competence in the principles and practices
  of Cloud architecture as they relate to:
  • Demonstrated experience in leading and mentoring technical staff
    in the development and usage of cloud technology architectures
    and solutions
  • Worki g knowledge of and experience with other enterprise
    domains (application, security, performance engineering,
    infrastructure data, etc.)
  • Experience working in Agile/Lean development environments
  • Excellent software development habits (unit tests, Test
    Automation, in-code documentation, etc.)
  • Team Member attitude – willingness to support the Team to be
    successful in any area necessary
  • Experience in architecting solutions using Amazon Web Services
    for “cloud-scale,” high availability, reliability and security
  • Coding solutions that are composed of Amazon Web Services
    offerings
  • Communication of Cloud concepts to peers and customers
  • Design of mobile platforms
  • Assessing the adequacy of technology controls and security
    measures
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Design of Continuous Delivery pipelines and the tools used to
    deliver solutions (SVN, GIT, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins,
    Travis, Bamboo, Concourse, Salt, AWS Code Deploy, Docker, etc.)

Experience translating business and technical requirements into
comprehensive technical strategies and solutions.

Ability to develop and maintain good customer working relationships.

Demonstrated ability to architect and model mission critical solutions
leveraging multiple DBMS technologies (Rela