Principal Architect

Client is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and ~22,000 customers worldwide, including 53% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Client delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we're transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.The DNA of client is our people, and our culture has an emphasis on fostering intrapreneurship - a system that encourages employees to think and act like individual entrepreneurs and empowers them to take action, embrace risk, and make decisions as if they had founded the company themselves. At client, we value the diverse perspectives that each individual brings. Whether working with a team of colleagues or with clients, we ensure that we foster a culture that celebrates differences and builds on shared connections.The Senior Architect is responsible for driving the architecture and design for Client large-scale, Internet-based applications. Work as a leading member of the Product Development team and, more specifically, the Architecture team to support and enhance the application architecture and the framework. Research new tools and technologies and asked to come up with recommendations on how they can be used in Cvent applications. Actively participate in design and implementation of projects featuring a high degree of technical complexity and/or scalability and performance implications.What You Will Be Doing: • Apply extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing and designing software applicationsSpecification, design, development, and debugging of large Internet scale and high- performance service-based web applications and frameworksCreate re-usable frameworks through hands-on development and unit-testingDocument technical designs using flow charts, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, data flow diagrams, database schemas, descriptive software componentdocumentation, and wireframes• Help guide the technology directions by recommending specific technologies to pursue, suggesting training and staff development activities, and monitoring the Cvent Paved RoadKeep an eye on any increase technical debt and propose remedies and code refactoringWork closely with the implementation teams of the various product lines to ensure that architectural standards and best practices are being followed consistently across all CventapplicationsContribute to tools that help increase developer productivity through automationStakeholder management with an ability to gain others' support for ideas, proposals,projects, and solutionsWhat You Will Need for this Position: Experience building robust and scalable distributed systems and experience with multi- tiered production application deploymentsHigh proficiency in cloud design and deployment models16+ years of hands-on experience in some of the following: Java (must have), MVC, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, jQuery, Web Services and API development using REST or SOAP, Windows 2003/2008/7 server, IIS 7.0, LinuxAt least 5 years of experience in Design and implementation of Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and Tools Migration and consolidation using one or more of the DevOps tools/technologies.Experience with one or more of the following databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Couchbase, Redis, Elastic Search or other NoSQL technologiesAbility to accurately estimate software development tasks given a set of requirements and assumptions; ability to work with Project Managers to develop task-level project plans and proposalsAbility to develop secure solutions and knowledge of industry best practices regarding information security and defensive developmentUnderstanding of deployment architecture and infrastructure in both on-prem and cloud hosting environmentsExcellent oral and written communication with an ability to articulate complex systems to external teams (sales, product, external vendors)Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervisionStrong understanding of cross-browser compatibility and limitation issues PRB