Principal Architect

January 13

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The College Board

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The College Board is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. It connects students to college success and opportunity by supporting them in building essential skills for higher education and removing barriers to access. The College Board operates with a focus on respect, diversity, inclusion, and collaboration, with a diverse and dedicated team of professionals. Based in several locations across the United States, they strive to modernize operations and increase their digital footprint, supporting students and families nationwide.

Education • Education Policy

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1900

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

📋 Description

• You will apply your skills while leading large, strategic, and complex initiatives that have a clear impact on the students and educators that we serve. • As the Principal Architect, you are a technical leader, a partner, and an innovator. • You will serve as a technical visionary, guiding the organization’s tech strategy and fostering the adoption of modern technologies that align with future growth. • This role requires someone with strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills that uses data to inform decisions and actions. • The Architect will be able to move forward multiple projects in concert, both independently and as a member of the teams. • This role requires a deep understanding of various software architectures and technologies, with the ability to guide technical teams in building high-quality, scalable software solutions. • The team communicates directly with our clients, to gain a deep understanding of their needs. • You will work directly with our product owners, designers, and users to find the most efficient and effective technical solutions to meet and exceed our users’ needs. • Set architectural direction for a broad set of domains and systems, ensuring that solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements (scalability, performance, security). • Design and implement best-in-class systems and frameworks that will succeed long-term. • Deliver upon initiatives with organizational impact and priority. • Define technical strategy that improves products, infrastructure, processes, and organization, while staying abreast of risks and opportunities that influence strategy. • Provide exceptional leadership and technical innovations to features that span boundaries across engineering teams. • Develop and maintain the technical roadmap, aligning software architecture with the organization's long-term business goals. • Be a great partner, working across technical teams to build sustainable contracts looking out for the good of system vs. what might be easiest for a sole product. • Work closely with development teams, product management, and other stakeholders to ensure that architecture supports the needs of all business units. • Foster strong working relationships with other technologists outside our team. • Work closely with Enterprise Architecture, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure that the architecture integrates smoothly with all parts of the technology ecosystem. • Ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence decision-making, and mentor developers. • Play a critical role in coaching and mentoring junior engineers. • Contribute content and facilitation for the Full Stack Technical Education program. • Support recruiting and hiring for various engineering teams and positions.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software systems, programming, database development, and infrastructure development and administration. • A graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar experience with fundamentals. • A track record of influencing and delivering initiatives with organizational impact. • An aptitude for directly engaging clients and users to gain strong understanding of their holistic needs. • An orientation towards teaching and developing junior employees. • A collaborative mindset prioritizing team success over individual accolades. • Passion for working in an iterative development environment. • Ability to solve complex problems using divergent thinking resulting in innovative solutions. • Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship. • Deep technical domain knowledge: apps, services, systems, or frameworks. • Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with JavaScript (especially React and Node), Python, and TypeScript. • Strong knowledge of the AWS cloud platform and experience working with AWS resources such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Kinesis, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, DynamoDB.

🏖️ Benefits

• A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. • Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more. • Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility. • A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive.