Expert Enterprise Architect – Cloud and Edge

by Ronald Barron | May 2, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: Discover Financial Services

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world’s leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

This senior level role will be tasked with formulating Strategy and Architecture within the Cloud and Edge Computing/On-Boarding Domain of Hybrid Cloud Democratization Product Family. Strategy and architecture must align to the goals of the business, it must support a broad range of capabilities, often articulated in non-technical terms. Being able to take business requirements and map those to a set of capabilities supported by one or more technologies and products is paramount to effective delivery. Additionally, mega-trends must be considered, often as forward-looking positions about where technology might need to meet the business in the future. And lastly by virtue of being in a heavily regulated industry that operates globally, the strategy and architecture must be nimble enough to adjust to the ever-changing regulatory environment.

At your core you are an Architect that has demonstrated the engineering and architecture skills necessary to help drive the Hybrid Cloud Democratization Strategy for Discover. You will be responsible for collaborating with other senior architects across numerous domains. While the role will not require direct leadership, you will be required to partner with product owners to align with Cloud and Edge Computing/On-boarding Domain strategy and delivery against the architecture. This is a technical role that demands that the candidate have had exposure to a wide range of technologies, including but not limited traditional infrastructure, public cloud, Kubernetes, application development & automation. You will be responsible for working with the Hybrid Cloud Democratize Chief Product Family Architect to create a vision & roadmap for Discover’s technology. You must be a great communicator with ability to build consensus across numerous stakeholders.

As an enterprise architect, you’ll work to ensure architecture cohesiveness and drive alignment to both business and technology objectives for initiatives that span multiple product areas and/or LOBs. You’ll have a broad view of products, technologies, processes, and data and how they should work together to deliver business value.

Responsibilities:

• Define the Cloud & Edge Computing/On-boarding Domain of Hybrid Cloud Democratization architecture
• Collaborate with Product Family Architect to synchronize architecture and roadmap
• Collaborate with Product Family Architect to ensure architecture aligns to business objectives
• Collaborate with engineers and architects to socialize the domain strategies
• Create partnership with Product Owners to deliver and adopt cloud and edge computing/on-boarding architecture and strategy
• Delivery of architecture across traditional, hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud cloud and edge computing/on-boarding solutions
• Integrate with Agile Methodology to track enterprise strategic alignment and deliverables
• Partners with business and IT leadership along with product area architects regularly to understand key business initiatives to ensure product area target architectures are aligned with enterprise architecture and industry strategies
• Provides insights and recommendations to Executive Committee on strategic architectural opportunities
• Consult on candidate architectures produced by product areas. Assists and guides product areas through the governance process
• Leads and/or contributes to architectures that span across product areas and/or LOBs
• Ensures other Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, and Infrastructure Architects are engaged and strategies are incorporated into target product area architectures
• Provides conduit for feedback loop between technology enablers (e.g., EAIS, Security, Data) and Value Streams
• Promotes consistent architecture practices across the architecture community. Stays current with industry architectures and best practices and influence enterprise technology strategy and initiatives

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related
• 10+ Years – Software Development, Software Engineering, Technical Architecture or Related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of expert on the Dreyfus architecture scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

• 5+ years with public cloud providers such as GCP and/or AWS
• Practical experience in delivering and operationalizing public and private computing
• Extensive background in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and VMware solutions
• Deep understanding of Hybrid, Multi-Cloud and Distributed Computing Architecture
• Enterprise grade experience in on-boarding public cloud to corporate standards and requirements
• Understanding of traditional, virtual, managed and containerized infrastructure and applications
• Enterprise level experience in architectural design, review and collaboration
• Track record of managing technology lifecycle and delivery; including future-state
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

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Product Manager – Cybersecurity

by Ronald Barron | May 2, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: DICK’S Sporting Goods

WHAT YOU’LL DO IN THIS ROLE

As Product Manager for Cybersecurity, you will be responsible for leading the strategy and vision around how we protect DICK’S Sporting Goods from cyber threats and data breaches. You will help shape the roadmap specifically for network security, endpoint security, and identity access management. This roadmap will include key technologies such as password vaults, identity management solutions, secure authentication, VPN, email security, and certificate management technologies to name a few.

This role focuses on delivering business outcomes through continuous improvement and delivery of quality products. Managing your product requires you to work cross-functionally, communicate up and down the organization, and work closely with your security partners.

As a Product Manager in Technology, you are responsible for defining and establishing a comprehensive product vision, strategy, roadmap for your portfolio of high value/complex products within a modern development environment. You are the “voice of the product” empathizing with stakeholders and reviewing data to ensure customer and stakeholder needs are incorporated into and prioritized within the roadmap, directed by data and results. Requires a driven, strategic and tactical mindset; highly motivated and accountable to deliver outstanding product experiences that achieve enterprise KPIs.

Interacts with all functional areas of the company including UX/UI Design, Engineering, Executive Management, and Business stakeholders. This is a unique role that brings cohesion and coordination to initiatives by blending strategy and tactics to achieve business results. You must work strategically, driving ideas for growth and new opportunities, while tactically solving business problems that exist in existing products.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Strategy & Planning

• Product Strategy & Roadmap – You own the vision, strategy and roadmap for your products. Must be able to distill the “fire hose” of insights, data, and requests into an actionable roadmap inclusive of customer and business partners needs to build both incremental and innovative experiences for your customers. Ensures that value is delivered early, often, and in-sync with customer goals.
• Customer Value & Business Outcomes – Ensures a business outcome is achieved and customers receive a product that provides value, whether it’s an MVP or mature product. Goes above and beyond defining and delivering. Requires a solid understanding of the inter-relations of our business – financial, marketing, sales, legal, partnerships, customer service, stores, technical capabilities, user experience.
• Know Your Business – Accountable for results. Whether that is maximizing metrics, managing expectations, addressing customer feedback, or prioritizing the backlog. Knowing your numbers, competitors, who is doing what, the next big thing, suggesting innovative ideas to POC and constantly striving to increase revenue and conversion are primary responsibilities for your role. You will provide regular reporting to executive management along with strategies to constantly improve the numbers, hit revenue goals, and maximize return on investment.
• Product Decisions – you will be called upon to make tough decisions, whether it is a go/no-go decision, balancing risks versus reward, pros/cons, dependencies, cost/benefit analysis, or ROI of resource investment. You must stand behind your decision with facts and data. Must be able to recognize when to change course and reverse a decision, subscribing to the philosophy of learning fast, and moving on.

Delivery & Execution

• Features – creates accurate user stories and prioritizes the backlog; working with the team to groom, refine, and ultimately deliver.
• Ceremonies – Participates in standups, planning sessions, demos, and retrospectives. Fosters team collaboration, co-creation, and open communication.
• Testing and Research – Formulates hypothesis to A/B test, prototype, or research, continually refining the product until desired outcome is achieved.
• Vendors – Accountable for the day to day interaction and management of any vendor partners for your products, regularly holding business reviews, monitoring SLAs, managing RFPs, participating in contract negotiations and managing budgets for those services.

People

• Change Influencer – Acts as an agent of change within your team, organization, and leading to embrace new methodologies, processes, efficiencies and challenging the status quo. Constantly pushing and asking why even if it’s to Senior Executives. You must be a strong communicator and partner, capable of influencing a team of engineers, stakeholders, and executives to achieve value early and often.
• Alignment – You must evangelize your roadmap and gain alignment with all team members stakeholders, and partners; distilling complex technical concepts into plain language for stakeholders, and advocate for the customer. Ensuring alignment across your group and the Product organization.
• Partnering – Manages stakeholder expectations and provides education to requestors on prioritization, ROI, and roadmap.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven track record of delivering world-class product and experiences.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (epics, features, stories,) and tools (Jira, Pivotal).
• Capable of quickly establishing and fostering partnerships with executives and other stakeholders in a highly cross-functional, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple products, and shifting priorities through effective planning, prioritization, delegation and coordination across teams and vendors.

WE INSPIRE TOP PERFORMANCE.

• Competitive Pay
• Professional Training Programs
• Performance-Based Pay Increases
• Teammate only discounts
• DailyPay – Payday your way
• And more. See a full list of benefits.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 2 – 5 years of relevant Security or Cybersecurity experience preferred.
• 2 – 5 years with relevant education linked to Product Management, or 7+ years without relevant education linked to Product Management.

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Information Architect

by Ronald Barron | May 2, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: Imagine Learning

Great Purpose. Great People.

At Imagine Learning we ignite learning breakthroughs. It drives everything we do. We innovate together to support educators in creating those special moments when students experience the joy of learning at its best. We serve more than 10 million students and partner with more than 7,500 school districts nationwide.

Envision Your Experience

As an Information Architect, you’ll be part of a team of information design professionals within Imagine Learning’s Product Experience Design (PXD) group, working with product designers, UX researchers, content designers, and learning experience designers to thoughtfully create effective, organized, intuitive information experiences for school administrators, educators, technologists, parents, and students. You’ll bring a strong semantic and technical skillset to a wide variety of problems, tools, and environments to create efficient, scalable, and sustainable structured information solutions across the enterprise.

The Information Architect role is a regular, full-time position, based out of your home office.

Imagine Learning offers competitive total compensation, including incentive opportunities for all regular employees.

Share Your Expertise

Experience, education, and qualifications essential for success in this role, include:

• Define and implement best-practice information architecture strategy and taxonomy development across the Imagine Learning product line.
• Work across multiple products and teams, contributing to the information design of digital products, including conceptual modeling, visualization, alignment across products and platforms for consistency and completeness, and deployment.
• Engage with peers, stakeholders, product owners, and cross-functional team members to identify IA needs and requirements.
• Design and implement information models, templates, and rubrics for consistent and efficient information delivery.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, product designers, content designers, UX researchers, and others to ensure that Imagine Learning’s information architecture and content strategy helps drive the company’s desired UX, business, and technical outcomes.
• Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot end-to-end data design and implementation problems using strategies like information modeling, metadata management, single sourcing, and other best practices.
• To help ensure the safety of our valued employees, customers, and other business associates, Imagine Learning encourages employees to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated. Employees entering our office locations must be fully vaccinated or have received a negative COVID test result within 24 hours of their visit..

Ignite Your Career

We support your unique career journey by providing flexibility, investing in wellbeing, and propelling growth.

• Imagine Learning is a hybrid workplace, with the majority of employees enjoying the opportunity to work from home. Headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ, we also maintain offices in Provo, UT, Austin, TX, Petaluma, CA, and Rock Rapids, IA.
• We offer a comprehensive benefits program to eligible employees, including:
  • Multiple health, dental, and vision plans, including medical plans with zero employee premiums
  • 401k plan with a company match
  • Company-paid behavioral health coaching
  • 15 paid holidays, including a winter shutdown from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day
  • 15 days of accrued annual Paid Time Off (PTO) to start
  • Paid bonding leave when a new child joins your family
  • Paid volunteer hours and annual giving events
• Imagine Learning is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• We offer a wide variety of professional development programs, including tuition reimbursement for eligible employees.

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Software Architect – SaaS, Cloud-based solutions

by Ronald Barron | Apr 28, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: Zebra Technologies

Overview

At Zebra, we’re reinventing how businesses operate at the enterprise edge – helping them run faster, smarter, and more connected than ever before. A community of builders, doers and problem solvers, we each play an outstanding role – crafting new technologies, bringing solutions to market, and participate with Companies on the front line of business.

Zebra’s SaaS business is new and growing and with that we are seeking someone to assess the design of our Cloud services environment from end to end. Also in this role, you will identify challenge areas and recommend reliability improvements. The ideal candidate will have a background in Coud and SaaS technologies (ideally monitoring) opposed to developing Cloud solutions.

This position may be remote in U.S. or Canada but will not be performed in Colorado. \

Responsibilities

Works as part of a design team, provides all design assurance deliverables required in the development process at each phase with minimum level of coaching, including:

• Evaluation of Software deployment aspects for Software Solutions and SaaS Cloud networking environments.
• Advising design engineering on the best practices for Software services health monitoring.
• Recommending design of internal test methods for Software deployment methodologies.
• Reviewing procedures for achieving required levels of Software product reliability in customer environments.
• Developing Field Readiness Review Checklist for SaaS world class deployment capability.
• Providing feedback from the SaaS deployment process to engineering with recommendations on design requirements for deployment.
• Recommending Methodologies for improving configuration issues. Woring with team on automation and AI of the SaaS configuration process.
• Providing feedback in the development of improved design for managed services
• Consulting in determining the reliability of Software system level functioning and performance to achieve targeted Service Level Operation for company, customer and any governmental agency reliability objectives
• Using Software tools and defect predictive means to assess reliability of Software.
• Consulting in the creation and analysis of deployment test plans and managed services Field Readiness Review checklists.
• Specifying or consulting on the specification of diagnostic tools to isolate field outages quickly with minimum impact to customer production networks.
• Using predictive algorithms and other methods to assess the potential for undiscovered Software defects or deployment problems during the setup, testing, and shake out process in the customer environment.
• Actively reviewing, understand and applying the Market Requirements relative to the SW Solution deliverables.
• Documentimg Engineering Specifications to quantify metrics and acceptable criteria for Software Release Readiness, and Field Readiness Release as part of the approval process in keeping with Zebra Software Quality Standards.
• May be responsible for quality activities to support the initiatives of the core development team, program manager or product line management deliverables
  • Communicates proactively with the project team and other stakeholders about progress against System level testing and reliability analysis of results.
  • Uses experience and knowledge to proactively identify risks to the project and contribute beyond personal scope of deliverables.
  • Contributes to overall project leadership
  • Works with cross business unit team members reviewing their Quality Processes and the deployment of Software Solutions against those processes.
  • Conducts Field Readiness Reviews with the entire releasing project team, (Professions Services, Software Engineering, Program Management, Customer Success Team, the Managed Services team, etc.)
  • Demonstrates working knowledge of design for quality tasks, Software functional testing, SW Stress and performance testing within cloud network environments. Ability to determine gaps and specify requirements for mitigation of gaps.
  • Actively participates in program Risk Assessment, highlighting key quality issues from a customer focused perspective. Ability to highlight SW Quality shortcomings, managed services shortcoming, and deployment shortcomings and withhold Field Readiness approval when necessary.
  • Conducts periodic SW and Field Readiness Quality Reviews where appropriate.
  • Assists project team in understanding technical issues and non-technical issues, suggest testing or other approaches to determining root cause and corrective action
  • Acts independently to apply knowledge to resolve novel issues or concerns about design approach and conformance to standards
  • Analyzes and approves Software Solutions update (or micro services) changes to production products
  • Contributes to innovation efforts by participating actively in brainstorming activities and actively benchmarking externally with other organizations on best practices in design assurance for deployment and non-technical offer quality aspects of Software Solutions.
  • Participates in special projects as a representative of the DAE team or support process improvement activities within the broader function.
  • Works largely with SaaS Software Solutions operating over a Cloud network.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires at least a Master’s degree in SW or Computer Science (Mechanical, Electrical, or Reliability)
• Minimum 8 years of experience
• Working knowledge, skill, and problem solving ability on personal computer based systems
• Knowledge and experience with spreadsheet and statistical software programs
• Advanced Statistical methods and complex problem solving and analysis tools and techniques
• Familiarity with ISO9001 and internal audit techniques
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Detailed and numbers oriented
• Six Sigma problem solving training, Black Belt certification or ASQ Certified Quality Engineer a plus

Preferred Qualification:

• Excellent understanding of Cloud related concepts, including strengths and weaknesses
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Azure
• Fluent in defect tracking tools such as ServiceNow and JIRA
• Experience in Azure, GCP or AWS is required
• Excellent propensity for systems interoperability across cloud networking
• Experience with and ability to know the right questions to ask
• Experience in Cloud networking services deployment
• Ability to look for weaknesses throughout the product lifecycle
• Telementry for health monitoring
• B2B Enterprise experience
• Ability to drill down in techniques (i.e. AI)
• Ability to focus on Quality
• Experience with monitoring ideal

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Site Reliability Engineer

by Ronald Barron | Apr 28, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: Molecula

Molecula is an Operational AI company that closes the gap between data and decision, enabling organizations to unlock the power of real-time analytics and AI. Our core technology, FeatureBase, is a feature-oriented database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low latency, high throughput, and highly concurrent workloads. We are a burgeoning startup with a passionate team of dedicated engineers, marketers, and business experts determined to make a positive impact.

Molecula’s Engineering team is a group of brilliant makers and doers passionate about building world class products and solutions that make AI and ML possible for all. They take really challenging technical problems and turn them into elegantly simple yet incredibly complex solutions that delight our users. Most of all, they take pride in their craft and are a collaborative bunch that truly cares about the team, clients, company, and opportunity.

Molecula is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Engineering team. With your expertise in software and systems engineering, you will help us build and operate large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems that will allow our users to push the boundaries on how data is accessed today. You will provide technical leadership across cross functional software, infrastructure, data, security, and product teams to ensure we deliver the most reliable and stable feature store ever.

Responsibilities include

• Participate in design of major software components, systems, and features to improve the reliability and availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Molecula’s services.
• Improve our infrastructure capabilities by guiding the definition of service level objectives for Molecula services.
• Support deployments in new customer environments, monitoring, and observability
• Lead production incidents and work with cross-functional teams to drive to root cause analysis, reproduction, and resolution.
• Evangelize a culture of reliability and help mentor and train other team members on designing automation in order to meet service level objectives.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance support process, documentations and playbooks.

Job Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications
  • 5+ years of software development experience with at least 2 years focused in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role
  • Experience with Go, Rust, C, or Python, or similar programming languages
  • Proven experience in end-to-end technical resolutions and root-cause analysis.
• Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with observability and automations for SaaS products
  • Experience designing, analyzing, automating and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience in networking, security, hardware or OS performance tuning
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab, Azure DevOps, CircleCI to create end-to-end pipelines for all staging environments (Dev, Test, UAT, Production) is a plus.

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