Job ID: 3489
Position Title: System Architect
Position Type:  Full-time
Location: San Jose
Salary: Unspecified
Experience: Mid to senior level

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

Responsible for the overall quality of one or more coherent bodies of technology (architectures) created and maintained by a team of engineers and providing overall technical leadership to that team. Quality means the degree to which the technology supports Prosidio's short and long term business objectives for that technology. Technical leadership includes all aspects of the team's engineering efforts but does not include direct management responsibilities.


Qualifications:

Technical/Functional Skills

• Comfortably moves between highly varying levels of abstraction from business strategy to product strategy to high level technical design to detailed technical design to implementation.
  
• Clearly documents and communicates objectives, requirements, and designs at these different levels of abstraction to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  
• Quickly and reasonably estimates capital, schedule and human resource costs of proposed objectives. Compares, contrasts, and prioritizes among alternative approaches to meet those objectives while assessing risk both quantitatively and qualitatively.
  
• Uses seasoned judgment to suggest approaches that optimize among customer needs, business constraints, and technological realities.
  
  

Team/Leadership Skills

• Influences development managers to insure appropriate levels of quality on owned architecture(s).
  
• Collaborates effectively with peer architects and chief architects to solve complex problems spanning their respective areas and resolves technological disagreement with informed, rational debate.
  
• Influences and communicates effectively with non-technical audiences including senior product and business management.
  
• Arbitrates disagreements among engineers and make decisions where needed without damaging relationships.
  
• Coaches and delegates to engineers to facilitate their development.
  

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