Architect (Technical), Operational Experience
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Architectural Design & Strategy:
- Lead the design and evolution of technical architecture for new and existing systems, ensuring alignment with business goals, industry best practices, and future scalability.
- Define architectural patterns, principles, and standards, and ensure their consistent application across projects and teams.
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools, making well-reasoned recommendations based on technical fit, cost, and maintainability.
- Develop detailed architecture blueprints, technical specifications, and system diagrams.
- Influencing common modeling, design, and coding practices
- Technical Leadership & Guidance:
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to software development teams, fostering a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.
- Conduct technical reviews (code, design, architecture) to ensure adherence to architectural standards, quality, security, and performance.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide expert-level support and solutions to development teams.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and architectural patterns, recommending proactive adoption where beneficial.
- Synchronizing the following disciplines across solutions whenever applicable: System and data security, quality production infrastructure, user experience (Lean UX), scalability, performance, and other Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs)
- Stakeholder Collaboration:
- Collaborate closely with product managers, business analysts, project managers, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into actionable technical designs.
- Effectively communicate complex technical concepts and architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Act as a key technical liaison for external partners and vendors.
- System Performance & Security:
- Ensure that architectural designs prioritize system performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Implement and advocate for security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Design for high availability, disaster recovery, and efficient resource utilization.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Champion DevOps principles and practices (CI/CD, automation, infrastructure as code) to streamline development and deployment processes.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering practices, tools, and methodologies.
- Promoting Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps capabilities
- Personal and professional alignment with Expeditors culture and ten critical success factors
- Proven experience as a logistics and technology oriented leader
- Strong leadership, communication, and execution capabilities
- Experienced problem solver, strong collaborator and able to provide clarity around complex topics
- Experience with DevSecOps, Lean, Agile and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Assertive personality, interpersonal, action and outcome driven leadership
- Ability to actively inspire, coach, mentor and motivate
- Ability to promote autonomy, mastery and purpose, through empowerment and creating leaders
- BA/BS Computer Science, MIS, or related degree preferred
- Global logistics/Supply chain business knowledge (minimum 5 years of experience)
- Experience in a technical role such as systems/data/business analysis, project management, or software development (1 year minimum)
- Senior Manager, Information Services, Operational Experience
- Paid Vacation, Holiday
- Health Plan: Medical Insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training and Education Programs
- Unlimited opportunities for career advancement