Senior Principal Software Architect – Cloud EMEA (m/f/d) – Remote

Summary / Role Purpose  

The Senior Principal Software Architect – Cloud EMEA (m/f/d)  joins the Autonomy team. The Senior Principal Software Architect – Cloud EMEA acts as an architect. He/she identifies new opportunities and leads the design and development of innovative solutions. In this role, the Senior Principal R&D Engineer will act as a top technical reference, working closely with customers, partners, application engineers, and multiple development teams to define and deploy major new products and capabilities.

Key Duties and Responsibilities 

• Designing and developing cloud-based software architectures that can run on cloud platforms and implementing best practices for cloud development.
• Ensuring scalability and reliability. Responsible for designing software architectures that can scale and remain reliable as the user base grows.
• Ensuring security and compliance. Ensure that the software architecture meets security and compliance requirements.
• Leads the planning, architecture or research across multiple projects or disciplines.  Sets the direction for major technical or research initiatives and projects
• Coordinates product design and development activities requiring extensive analysis in areas such as user experience, software design and solver research.  Acts as a technical reference across groups or products and analyzes new and emerging technologies and methods for creating leading-edge products and solutions
• Leads the organization in depth and breadth of technical knowledge and ability. Defines develops, and employs best practices and maintains them through technical reviews and mentoring
• Researches and understands the marketing requirements for products, including target environment, performance criteria, and competitive issues. Works with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions.  Disseminates information about opportunities to develop leaders and senior management
• Operates without direct supervision and functions as a software architect

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience 

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 12 years experience, MS with 10 years experience, or Ph.D. with 8 years of experience
• Extensive commercial experience with a deep understanding of cloud-based software design, and agile development methodologies.
• Recognized leadership with a track record of defining requirements and delivering state-of-the-art results on highly complex problems

Preferred Qualifications and Skills 

• Expert-level knowledge and software craftsmanship in cloud technologies, the simulation domain
• Mastery in delivering innovative technology solutions for large-scale commercial products.
• Proven ability to define and understand business requirements and translate them into software roadmaps and plans

• Experience driving a technology roadmap across multiple development teams
• Ability to disseminate complex information in a clear way to stakeholders and development teams
• a hands-on software developer, and keep a passion for the craft of software
• Ability to drive success across teams and geographies, and to mentor others
• Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in the area of autonomous driving
• Good communication and interpersonal skills