Platform Architect

Financial Engines

(Sunnyvale, California)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Financial Engines
Financial Engines is the leading RIA. We manage over $135B of investments for over 1,000,000 individual investors. Last year more than 160K investors enrolled into our management services. Our services are uniquely tailored to each of our individual investors. We provide these services by integrating financial technology with information technologies.
Summary
As the Platform Architect, you will set the architecture and overall direction for the design and development of a platform that delivers mission-critical decisions on the investment advice for millions of Americans. We are looking for a hands-on Architect to help us enable the platform for the next period of hyper growth, including unleashing our ability to take advantage of the capabilities of AWS to scale and service our customers at the speed of business. You will lead the effort to define the next-generation platform built cloud natively on AWS, as well as define the execution plan for migrating the existing platform to the next-gen platform. You will provide technical leadership to multiple Agile Teams and interact with the architecture team to define the services, APIs, and data model for this platform.
Responsibilities
* Lead the overall architecture and high level design for the delivery of the FE Platform including new features as well as the migration * Oversee the platform design to develop scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable services that operate 24x7 * Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write simple elegant code, and deliver with speediness and quality. * Champion best practices, mentor developers, and continue to push the engineering organization forward along technology innovation. * Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity. * Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meets/exceeds business, customer, and technical requirements.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be excited for the challenge to transform and think critically on many computer science disciplines including scalable data platform, building enduring APIs, performance, and 24x7 reliability. This position is full-time and based in our Sunnyvale office. * 12+ years of industry experience building and running in production high volume large-scale distributed system * Expert level experience build resilient services * Expert level Domain Modeling with Relational and Non-Relational Databases * Development on AWS Cloud * Automation driven mindset and solid understanding of modern CI/CD practices * Excellent debugging and problem solving skills, including ability to diagnose and fix performance and scalability issues. * Data-driven decision making, results oriented * BS in Computer Science or a related field

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