Sr. Software Architect

ABOUT THE POSITION

Key role responsibilities include:

•Design and develop reliable, performant, and maintainable solutions covering software and all electronics related hardware such as sensors, processors, and controllers for the F.OS platform in collaboration with other teams.

•Develop comprehensive documentation and design artifacts to meticulously capture and articulate solution designs, architectural decisions, and technology evaluations, ensuring clarity and accessibility for the development team, stakeholders, and future reference.

•Ensure solution designs conform and comply with enterprise architecture standards and principles

•Constantly review code to ensure the quality of designs by avoiding complexity, advocating clarity, and directly interacting with development teams. This usually requires hands-on work in terms of developing prototypes, contributing code, or evaluating technologies.

•Coach and mentor team members on following architecture practices, development and testing standards

•Evaluate solution alternatives that involve different architectures, design patterns, and frameworks covering both software and hardware domains.

•Identify and fix (where applicable) root causes of either software or hardware problems

•Collaborate with an enterprise architects through architecture reviews to ensure all designs meet the overall technical and business goals of Fluence.

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field from an accredited university. Significant related work experience will be considered in place of a degree.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience building complex embedded solutions spanning both hardware and software.
• Thorough understanding of industry standards and regulatory guidelines. 
• Experience with Industrial and/or IoT Data Protocols, Patterns and Designs
• Strong theoretical and practical experience in how hardware integrates with software engineering and software architecture domains.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of enterprise integration patterns
• Experience in evaluating and improving the performance, security, scalability, reliability, and robustness of large industrial-grade systems.
• Ability to analyze and interpret information from a variety of sources, apply critical and creative thinking to draw conclusions or develop solutions to complex problems.
• An ever expanding mind that is adept at conceptualizing complex ideas quickly and conveying those thoughts to others in a clear, effective, and motivating manner.