HERE Technologies Looking for Principal Solutions Architect at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time

What’s the role?:
As a Principal Architect you will drive success of HERE Location Platform through deliberate, clear and consistent softwaredesign. You will work with key customers to understand their requirements and help create solution architectures for real-world use cases. This demands a hands-on pragmatic approach, an analytical mind-set with a solid theoretical basis and most importantly an ability to work with autonomy. A background in developing massively parallel and distributed systems, new products or platforms and technology is essential for the candidate to be able to successfully lead the architecture work in this platform. Our architects are expected to work with high degree of autonomy to own the process and outcome of their assignments.

Furthermore as a Principal Architect you will:
Ensure customer success by providing detailed solution architecture for their usecases and provide technical guidance through out implementation phase.

Articulate customer requirements and solution to different technical and non-technical stakeholders so as to enable successful execution of the engineering work.

Provide a clear insight into operational and cost metrics of customer solutions.

Take necessary steps to learn and understand necessary technologies, tooling and concepts as and when required the job.

Who are you?:
You bring a hands-on pragmatic approach and an analytical mind-set with a sound theoretical basis. In addtion you have:

Strong computer science fundamentals and a degree in computer science or related discipline.

12+ years of overall industry experriecne, including 4+ years of experience in distributed/parallel computing software systems in various roles.

4+ years in lead architect/engineer roles.

Fluency in either Java or Scala, as well as ideally one or more of other languages (e.g. C++, Python, Go).

Experience with technologies like Flink, Spark, Kafka, Redis for high volume and low latency data processing.

Experience with IaaS cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) and orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes is beneficial.

What do we offer?

Challenging problems to solve

Work that makes a difference in the world

Freedom to decide how to perform your work

Variety in the types of projects

Feedback so you will know how well you are doing

Collaborative, supportive colleagues

HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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Who are we?:
HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

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In this role you will be part of HERE Platform Solutions Architecture team. This team is embedded inside a horizontal architecture group which has the responsibility of defining the target architecture of platform products at HERE. Given its unique horizontal position in the organization, the architecture group has a deep visibility and influence over how various software products are designed, implemented and maintained at HERE. The team works with strategic HERE customers spread across the world to build solutions for their usecases by leveraging HERE location platform. Given the criticality of work done in Solution Architecture group, it is quite common for the team to be in customer and management spotlight while at the same time engaging with engineers on finer technical details. The team consists of architects with varying level of experience and diverse backgrounds, but a like-minded attitude towards continuous learning, knowledge sharing and collective success.We are looking to reinforce our Solution Architecture team to manage an increasing line-up of our customers.