Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint™ in hybrid environments—from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.
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At Flexera, we're on a mission to empower global enterprises by transforming IT insights into decisive actions. We are looking for an architect/principal engineer with deep expertise in analytics, including data modeling, semantic modeling, to take our world-class reference data in Technopedia to the next level, through deeper insights, richer features and more data sets. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of providing technical leadership, deep technical expertise and delivering big data solutions through data lakehouse and large scale-processing technologies.
As an architect/principal engineer, you will be a key player in architecting, designing, developing, and maintaining our common ontology and data models, transformations, and analytics capabilities for our industry-leading reference data. You will collaborate closely with other architects and guide, influence and help engineering teams to ensure seamless integration with other components of our system.
What you'll do:
- Architect, design and develop our big data platform, processing pipelines and content reference data.
- Drive innovation, enabling capabilities to enhance speed to innovation for our analytics, AI/ML, and product development teams.
- Define data models and semantic models for our wide range of data sets to provide insights and optimized user experiences.
- Provide guidance, influence and help engineering teams to deliver deep insights from our large and broad data sets.
- Continuously enhance your technical skills and mentor other engineers.
- Promote a high-standard engineering culture and operational excellence within the team.
- Collaborate with product and design teams to ensure the platform meets user needs.
- Define project requirements, technical artifacts, and designs, driving consensus across Product Management, architects, and engineering teams.
- Balance priorities between new feature development, architectural enhancements, and technical debt reduction for a sustainable and scalable platform.
- Champion continuous improvement in product quality, security, and performance standards within the development team.
You'll be expected to have:
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- Minimum 15 years relevant experience in software development, including 8+ years of expertise in data modeling, semantic modeling, and data visualization.
- Strong expertise in other big data technologies, such as metadata catalogs, data lineage, and orchestration.
- Strong technical expertise in distributed systems, big data, and cloud computing.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
- Good understanding of streaming technologies, including Kafka, with experience in defining message schemas and data models.
- Outstanding communication skills and emotional intelligence to collaborate effectively with teams across the organization.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and in a collaborative team environment.
- Prior experience mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior engineers.
At Flexera, we foster a fun and engaged hybrid working environment where collaboration and innovation thrive. We value diversity and encourage applicants from underrepresented groups in technology to apply.
Join our team to not only contribute to a world-class global product but also to grow in your career. At Flexera, we encourage continuous learning and provide opportunities for professional development.
Flexera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered for open roles regardless of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local/national laws, policies and/or regulations.
Flexera understands the value that results from employing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. We recognize that equity necessitates acknowledging past exclusion and that inclusion requires intentional effort. Our DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) council is the driving force behind our commitment to championing policies and practices that foster a welcoming environment for all.
We encourage candidates requiring accommodations to please let us know by emailing [email protected].
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What We Do
Flexera delivers SaaS-based IT management solutions that enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and multiply the value of their technology investments. We help organizations inform their IT with definitive visibility into complex hybrid IT ecosystems, providing unparalleled IT insights that allow them to seize technology opportunities. And we help them transform their IT with tools that deliver actionable intelligence across an ever-increasing range of dimensions to effectively manage, govern and optimize their hybrid IT estate.
More than 50,000 customers subscribe to our technology value optimization solutions, delivered by 1,300+ passionate team members worldwide. To learn more, visit flexera.com
Why Work With Us
People work here for, well, the people. People stay for the camaraderie with smart, passionate teams who actually like working together and managers who support them. We also offer competitive benefits, hybrid working and unlimited time off.
Our inclusivity scores are in the top benchmark and we are consistently rated a “great place to work.”