Principle Architect

Numerator is a data and tech company bringing speed and scale to market research. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Numerator has more than 2,000 employees worldwide. The company blends proprietary data with advanced technology to create unique insights for the market research industry that has been slow to change. The majority of Fortune 100 companies are Numerator clients.

Here at Numerator, we’ve made all corporate roles have maximum flexibility between office and remote work, except for rare situations when the role requires coming into an office regularly.In those situations, the recruiter of that role will clarify at the beginning of the process if that is the case. In fully remote situations, the company will provide technical equipment necessary to be successful in the role. In addition to maximum flexibility of return-to-office, the company also provides generous PTO, Internally Quiet Focus Time, and other recharge efforts to give time back to employees.

Job Description

Numerator is looking for a talented and passionate Principle Architect to join our team in our Pune office. As part of the CTO’s Leadership Team, you will be setting the target architecture patterns for a hybrid of centralized & federated teams.

Some interesting challenges will be blending enablement, best practices & ensuring adoption / compliance of key initiatives. A key areas for effort will be real time data, updating 3 tier architecture, cloud hosting, security, micro-services and trended alert monitoring. This will be accomplished via project kick off reviews, code re-use opportunities and general guidance via retros and planning.

Responsibilities

• Oversee adherence to the architecture strategy, principles and framework throughout Engineering

• Set and advocate for best practices on coding standards, scaling patterns and modern architecture

• Evaluate new project initiatives from an architecture perspective, whether it’s evaluation of how components will fit together or highlight future bottlenecks and technical debt considerations

• Review partnership feasibility and new technology solutions from a vendor perspective

• Set the strategy and monitor progress against our annual major technical initiatives (e.g. new technologies, cross-team initiatives, etc.)

• Participating in review & governance bodies as required

• Work with teams that utilize different technology stacks. Foster a team environment that respects and appreciates the different benefits of all team’s technologies. Have an appreciation for why current tech was chosen but always have an eye for what it takes to progress to the next technology curve.

Skills & Requirements

• 10+ years experience designing and building software applications in a high growth technology/data company

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field required (Master’s degree preferred)

• Proficiency with Python (or another object oriented language like .Net or Java)

• Delivery experience on of cloud computing and considerations for scalable, distributed systems across multiple teams & stakeholders

• Strong general knowledge in SQL, web application development, security, streaming data, cloud and open source technologies

• Understanding of software quality assurance principles

• A technical mindset with great attention to detail

• High quality organizational and leadership skills

• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities (particularly to non-technical audiences)

Example Projects

• Advise on the scope / scale of most impactful microservice feature extraction from a monolith code base

• Model a new data ingestion partner’s flow into our Snowflake instance for Product

• Build plan to shard data structures of a scaling system

• Perform reviews of major project initiatives from Engineering Leads of different teams at scoping phase

What we offer you

• An inclusive and collaborative company culture

• An opportunity to have an impact on our growing teams and organization

• Ownership of platforms and environments with industry leading product

• Market competitive total compensation package

• Volunteer time off and charitable donation matching

• Strong support for career growth, including mentorship programs, leadership training, access to conferences and employee resources groups

• Regular hackathons to build your own projects and work with people across the entire company

• Great benefits package including mediclaim, accidental insurance, term life insurance and more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.