Principal Product Architect

BI WORLDWIDEEdina, MN
$180,000 - $220,000Hybrid

About The Position

At BI WORLDWIDE, we are committed to creating belongingness, where D&I is a priority. We invite you to join us as we continue to expand our culture of inclusivity, collaboration, and authenticity together. We work a hybrid model (3 days in the office and 2 days work from home); this position is located in our Minneapolis Metro headquarters. Our Corporate Product Development Group is seeking interest for a Principal Product Architect. Are you passionate about defining the technical roadmap and platform architecture for customer-facing solutions? Do you have experience designing cloud-native microservices platforms? Do you enjoy providing technical leadership to application and DevOps teams? We're looking for someone to serve as the lead architectural voice for our customer-facing platform--ensuring BIW has a scalable, modern software foundation that meets the evolving needs of our clients.

Requirements

  • Proven experience architecting and designing cloud-native, microservices-based platforms.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable technical designs.
  • Hands-on experience with modern technology stacks, including: JavaScript, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, PostgreSQL, CDNs, CI/CD pipelines
  • Deep understanding of agile methodologies and modern software development practices.
  • Strong communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to mentor and guide senior technical talent.
  • Equally comfortable coding, doing code reviews, making technology design and platform decisions, explaining technical concepts and decisions, talking with Product Owners about product features, and/or talking with executive leaders about technology.
  • Experience implementing AI product solutions and using AI for productivity.

Nice To Haves

  • Security & Platform Health Focus: Ensure all applications and environments are Secure -- aligned with industry and BIW security standards, Performant -- delivering fast and consistent user experiences, Observable -- with logging, tracing, and monitoring for proactive insights

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate long-term business needs and align them with the overall system architecture.
  • Lead strategic architectural decision-making to support future capabilities.
  • Collaborate with product owners to brainstorm, define, and design effective solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership to architect and design products.
  • Establish and uphold technical standards across the platform.
  • Mentor development leads and architects across the organization (influence without direct management).
  • Security -- Ensure applications and environments are secure to industry and BIW standards, and that we have strategies and processes to remain secure.
  • Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to align application and infrastructure strategies.
  • Interact with and influence all members of product teams including product owner, engineering manager, front and back-end developers, QA, UX/designers, management.
  • Artificial Intelligence -- Set the technical strategy for AI within the SAAS platform, as well as AI for team productivity.
  • Play a key role in incident response and resolution of critical issues.
  • Stay informed about emerging technologies--evaluate their potential, and lead integration where appropriate.

Benefits

  • D&I is a priority
  • Culture of inclusivity, collaboration, and authenticity
  • Hybrid work model (3 days in office, 2 days work from home)
  • Details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.biworldwide.com/careers/benefits-page/
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