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This individual contributor works across instruments, firmware, connectivity, cloud services, data, and applications to build systems that are reliable, secure, scalable, supportable, and economically sustainable. The architect partners with engineering, product, science, quality, IT and DevOps, and external technology partners to turn complex needs into practical technical direction. \nProfessional Qualifications\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience. A master's degree is preferred.\nQualifications\nTypically 12 or more years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect for production systems.\nDemonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform.\nDeep experience with AWS or a comparable public cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, identity and access, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code.\nStrong backend engineering and API design skills, with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language.\nExperience with event driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management.\nExperience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale.\nAbility to connect architecture decisions to delivery effort, operational cost, product economics, and customer impact.\nStrong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to lead through influence across teams and external partners.\nPreferred Experience\nArchitecture spanning embedded devices or firmware, cellular or gateway connectivity, cloud ingestion, web or mobile applications, and analytics.\nRegulated, validated, or quality controlled systems with requirements for data access, retention, privacy, auditability, and change control.\nPlatform modernization, microservice simplification, globally distributed teams, or blended employee and contractor delivery models.\nProfessional level cloud certification or equivalent practical expertise.\nGeneral\nSelf starter and motivated. Enjoy challenges. Proven drive to achieve goals.\nCreative. High insight, curiosity and problem solving ability. High attention to detail.\nGood interpersonal and networking skills.\nTeam player. Enjoys and works well with other people in a team environment.\nEffective oral and written communication skills in English.\nDependable, positive attitude and good attendance.\nHigh ethics, integrity, honesty, patience.\nPosition Responsibilities\nArchitecture and Platform Direction:\nDefine and maintain the target architecture, system boundaries, data models, integration patterns, and technical roadmap for connected products and cloud platforms.\nLead architecture reviews for services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, identity, applications, deployment patterns, and device-to-cloud communication.\nSimplify the platform by identifying unnecessary coupling, duplicate processing, fragile patterns, and services that should be consolidated, redesigned, or retired.\nGuide platform modernization and the use of managed cloud services based on product needs, customer continuity, cost, portability, security, reliability, and operational burden.\nMaintain architecture decisions and documentation 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