Principal Architect

Iron Mountain

About The Position

At Iron Mountain we know that work, when done well, makes a positive impact for our customers, our employees, and our planet. That’s why we need smart, committed people to join us. Whether you’re looking to start your career or make a change, talk to us and see how you can elevate the power of your work at Iron Mountain. We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways. Are you curious about being part of our growth story while evolving your skills in a culture that will welcome your unique contributions? If so, let's start the conversation. Job Summary: Iron Mountain's InSight Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is a secure, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to help organizations manage and leverage both physical and digital information. It utilizes AI and machine learning to extract intelligence from unstructured data, automate workflows, and facilitate audit-ready compliance The Principal Architect is responsible for driving the Architecture to provide end-to-end optimal cost effective solutions for new product features and customer-driven requirements. Works closely with multiple internal Iron Mountain teams to develop detailed solution designs. Continuously improving tools and the processes to deliver solutions.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field
Skills: Deep understanding of Digital Experience Platform to integrate other products and Retentions
Strong understanding of Cloud Technologies and solutions - GCP, AWS, Azure
Experience with packaging and deploying software for the cloud (docker containers)
Ability to design and drive teams to create highly scalable, performant and stable systems.
Working knowledge of Agile frameworks
Strong technical background and understanding of enterprise solutions including networking, storage, hardware, and software layers.
Experience with Identity Providers (IDPs) with SAML and oAuth based integrations
Strong understanding of Electronic Content Management Systems and Business Process Management Systems.
Ability to illustrate architecture plans and create design documents
Proficient in all of the following technologies/languages: Python J2EE SQL NodeJS REST APIs JSON/XML Kubernetes JAVASCRIPT
Strong research, analytical, and problem solving skills
Strong verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
Ability to multitask and prioritize issues in a complex environment.
Ability to lead discussions related to API Integrations with various industry leading vendors.
Requires 10 plus years in Software development and implementation in a matrix environment, utilizing various SDLC methodologies.
Requires 10 plus years of experience in design and solution of complex enterprise application.
5 plus years working on AGILE software development.
5 plus years progressive technical experience implementing enterprise digitization solutions involving data capture, business processing management, and enterprise content management.
Experience in delivering solutions on Cloud platforms (GCP, Azure or AWS)

Nice To Haves

Architecture / Cloud certifications highly desired

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and lead a team of senior software engineers and architects to create solutions for new and existing product features requirements and customer solutions.
Work directly with customers and/or product management to understand application and cloud architectural requirements, which include functional, security, integration, and performance requirements.
Identify risks, assumptions, and mitigation strategies associated with the different elements of solution design and architecture.
Provide input into project implementation plans.
Assist in troubleshooting major issues encountered with the implementations and/or newly developed product features.
Utilize design thinking methodologies and processes to facilitate development of solution design and architecture.
Coach and mentor InSight engineering team members.
Work with InSight product management and other InSight team members on existing features and future roadmap items.
Participate/Lead design and solution discussions with various Iron Mountain partner vendors.
Subject matter expertise in database design, API based system integrations, development of services interfaces, search engines and front end development.
Oversight of full technology stack JAVA, REST APIs, JAVASCRIPT, PL/SQL, NodeJS, JAVA Spring, Kubernetes running in a cloud hosted environment
Analyzes and resolves issues; Escalate issues to senior management when required.
Support and promote Iron Mountain core values.
Oversight of design and delivery of effective solutions for InSight DXP customers.
Track and make key technical decisions
Perform vendor / open source comparisons and evaluations
Responsible for guiding the InSight DXP technical implementation team on end-to-end solutions.
Responsible for identifying, resolving, and when necessary, escalating any issues that may be impeding the success of the project.
Responsible for team management, including setting goals, evaluating performance, and building a strong talent pool.