Location: San Rafael or Portland, OR (Candidate choice)

Contract Length: 12 months initially, long term project.

Visa Status : US Citizen or Green Card

Responsibilities

•             Evaluates architectural options and defines overall architecture of the system, ensuring commonality across systems.

•             Defines non-functional requirements including performance monitoring, alerting and code management, ensuring alignment with technology best practices and SLAs.

•             Determines major elements and subsystems and defines interfaces as well as architectural runway.

•             Mentors and coaches other members of the team.

•             Provides subject matter expertise and technical consulting support on either vendor or internal applications and interfaces.

•             Drives engagement with ITS Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure secure development and deployment of solutions.

•             Interfaces with the Product Owner and IT partners at the Program level to define and estimate features for agile teams.

•             Works within the Agile environment and employs ITIL best practices.

•             Conducts industry research, facilitates new product and vendor evaluations, and assists in vendor selection.

•             Assists in production support and maintenance of applications as needed.

•             Provides subject matter expert solutions and hands on management of configuration.

•             Supports  Product Management teams to identify solutions and round out the roadmap.

•             definition and delivery related to areas of business focus identified by our Business Strategy.

Skills

•             6+ years of experience in Architect roles. Overall 12+ years of experience in software industry

•             Experience with integrating SAP Callidus Cloud with other business applications like Salesforce, Web Portals, SAP BRIM, SAP ECC

•             Experience with BRF/BRF+

•             Experience with Python programming is a plus

•             Excellent spoken and written communication skills with an ability to state things simply and persuasively for a variety of audiences –  internal, external, business and technical.

•             Excellent presentation skills and ease in speaking in front of large groups.

•             Highly motivated, disciplined and self-directed with a commitment to excellence.

•             Exceptional planning, facilitation, dependency management, risk management & analysis skills.

•             Ability to execute and manage performance and expectations within a cross-functional, matrix management environment.

•             Familiarity with Scrum/Agile/ Lean Startup methodologies. Experience working in a rapid prototyping environment a plus.

•             BS Degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Management or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

•             Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience and technical training is required.

•             4+ years’ experience in business application design, development, implementation, and/or solution architecture within the Offering, Pricing and Order management life cycles.

•             Implementation and Design Experience for CI/CD, Observability, Test Automation for Callidus Cloud

•             Experince with performance tuning of Callidus Cloud for business needs.

•             Experince with designing Restful API’s

•             Experience in Desgining and implementing Distributed Systems

•             Experience with structured design, development and implementation of new and established computing architectures.

•             Experience in Agile environment is preferred

•             Experience with multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments.

•             Translates business needs into technical architecture requirements.

•             Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.

•             Ability to understand the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives of situations.

•             Communicates IT requirements and guidelines to vendor partners.

•             Estimates financial impact of technical architecture alternatives.

•             Applies multiple technical solutions to business problems.

•             Quickly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technology.

•             Excellent written and oral communications skills.

•             Excellent planning and organizational skills.